One of Barack Obama's most irritating rhetorical tropes is his oft-stated aversion to "cynicism." It is vexing in substantial part because of its breathtaking and demagogic hypocrisy: Obama inveighs against cynicism in a cynical effort to manipulate the gullible, to make them feel good about their naiveté. That helps explain how he has maintained a base of support, albeit a shrinking one, as the disaster that is ObamaCare has unfolded.
In his 1892 comedy "Lady Windermere's Fan," Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." In an essay for The New Yorker's website, Margaret Talbot reveals herself to be--or poses as--the opposite of Wilde's cynic, at least when it comes to ObamaCare.
Talbot and her husband, a couple of writers, are especially hard-hit by ObamaCare. Even though she's a staff writer at The New Yorker, they don't have employer-provided coverage. At 52, she hasn't yet aged into Medicare, and apparently neither has her husband, whose age she doesn't specify. That means they buy insurance for themselves, along with their two children, in the individual marketplace.
You know what comes next: Their existing policy is "substandard," not compliant with ObamaCare's mandates. In particular, it lacks maternity care, which Talbot astutely notes is "not so useful" for a family whose only adult woman is a quinquagenarian, and vision care, which "we'd got used to not having."
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