A wonderful parable about the ACA
via Kate Messner on Facebook
Let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that you are not thrilled with your refrigerator. It started out okay, but now you're wondering if maybe it makes a little too much noise and is more expensive to run than you'd like it to be. But it does keep everything from spoiling, which is great. (Your old fridge wasn't big enough, so it couldn't even keep all the food cold. But that doesn't really matter because the old fridge is gone now and this is the one you have anyway. All of your food that needs it is using it.)
If a guy shows up at your door and says, "You need a new fridge!" your first reaction might be to take some time to investigate - to see if you can fix the old fridge instead. If that doesn't work out, you'll either decide your old fridge is okay after all, or maybe you'll say, "Okay, I think I might want to start looking into getting a new fridge."
But if the guy then says, "Great! I will move this old fridge out to the curb right now!" and starts putting all your perishables out on your kitchen counter with no plan to take care of them, you'll probably have some issues with that.
"Where will I put all this food?" you say.
"It doesn't matter!" he says as he tosses the milk and chicken onto the floor. "This fridge sucks."
"How do I know the new fridge will be better?" you say. "I mean, you haven't shown me a new fridge. You keep talking about better models, but you don't seem to have one in that truck. Or even a brochure with details."
"Don't worry," the guy says, gleefully. His friends have also arrived now. They are flinging eggs over their shoulders while you talk. "After we do this, we are going to INVENT a new fridge!" they say. "It will be way better than this one. It's going to be awesome. Here..." A guy in a suit makes you hold some leftover spaghetti sauce while he disassembles the crisper.
"Wait! This new refrigerator isn't invented yet? When is this going to happen?" you ask. You have a lot of questions. "What if I don't like it when it's done? What if it doesn't even work? And what if my old fridge is already gone when I find that out? Won't it take a while for you to figure all this out? Shouldn't I keep this one until I know if you have a new one I like better?"
"No!" You discover that the guy promised his friends he'd get rid of your refrigerator. He is intent on this now.
He and his friends are not paying for your replacement fridge, by the way. You are. And this great new one they say they're going to invent? None of them are going to use that. They have special refrigerators supplied by the government.
There are a lot of those guys now, and they are moving fast. (Your produce bins are already empty.) But if you figure all of this out before your refrigerator is gone, you'll probably tell them to slow down and give this a bit more thought. You might also throw them out of your house.
And now, imagine that your life depends on that refrigerator. Because people will die if the Affordable Care Act is repealed without a viable alternative in place.
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