The 9 Faces of Obamacare Architect Ezekiel Emanuel: Private Companies and Health Insurers Are to Blame for Failures

I'll save you from having to watch the profoundly disturbing Fox News Sunday panel discussion with Ezekiel "Dr. Death" Emanuel, one of the key architects of Obamacare.

In trying to defend his stillborn brainchild, Emanuel constantly interrupts the other panelist and host Chris Wallace, haranguing them for misunderstanding his genius.

Hell, instead of having to listen to him, just take a look at his facial expressions.

If you interpret these looks as condescension, haughtiness and delusions of grandeur, well, that was the interview.

That said, there were some interesting nuggets uncovered.

First, Emanuel admits that Obamacare will destroy the individual insurance market.

CAPRETTA: People who knew the law as it was being written knew the president wasn't telling the truth. The grandfather provision written in the law itself was too narrow and frankly they wrote a regulation intentionally trying to get people out of the individual market.

EMANUEL: Look --

CAPRETTA: They want the people to go into the exchanges because there's a lot of people in the individual market. The whole point of the exchanges is to close down the individual insurance market overtime.

EMANUEL: The insurance company, wait a second --

CAPRETTA: They wanted to move millions of people into the exchanges --

EMANUEL: The insurance companies don't like -- the insurance companies don't like the individual market as it's constructed. They see the future. That individual market is going away. They don't want to invest in it.

Second, Emanuel blames insurance companies for Obamacare's failures.

WALLACE: I have to ask you, does ObamaCare mandate that insurance companies change their plans to meet certain standards?

EMANUEL: Yes, it brings it up. But those -- look, we grandfathered in all of the pre-existing plans. If you want to change plans or you want to buy a new car, you have to meet safety standards. That was the rule and --

WALLACE: But wait, wait. Wait a minute. Your grandfathering is so narrow. For instance --

EMANUEL: It's not so narrow.

WALLACE: Let me give you an example. For instance, if an insurance company changes the co-pay by more than $5, over the course of three years since 2010, it's no longer grandfathered in.

EMANUEL: That's a 25 -- usually, a 25 percent change. That's a big change. You have to --

WALLACE: A $5 change in the co-pay, now, it's not grandfathered.

Third, Emanuel also blames private companies for the failures of his grand designs, the genius of which is simply misunderstood by we simple mortals.

WALLACE: Dr. Emanuel, it isn't just small business or the individuals -- forgive me, sir -- there are big companies, Time Warner, IBM, Sears, Wal-Mart -- or K-Mart, Walgreens, they're all saying they're going to take people off their coverage and put them into exchanges. None of them are going to be able -- of those people are going to be able to keep their current policies.

EMANUEL: Those are companies making decisions of how they want to insure people. Remember --

WALLACE: Because of the way ObamaCare works.

EMANUEL: Before ObamaCare, those companies could drop coverage at any time. Before ObamaCare, companies didn't have to offer insurance to their people and many didn't. As we know, we have 50 million uninsured people -- so, plenty of people -- and most of those are workers who didn't have coverage. Before Obama --

WALLACE: Simple question --

EMANUEL: Wait a second. Before ObamaCare, we were having lots of those people --

WALLACE: Simple question, are those going to be able to keep their coverage as the president?

EMANUEL: The president -- look, the law does not say Sears dropped coverage. Sears decides what's good for Sears. The law doesn't say to the insurance industry, you drop coverage. The insurance industry decides how it's going to make money.

When the private companies decide that they're going to drop people or put them in the exchange, you blame President Obama. He is not responsible for that.

In short, everyone else is to blame for the failures of Obamacare. The insurance companies aren't cooperating, the private sector is too greedy, the customers don't know what's best for them.

But it's not the mastermind's fault.

It never is.

The delusions of Emanuel are pretty much described in The 10 Commandments of Government as well as by every rational thinker since The Enlightenment.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.