Ignore Star-Ledger Editorial Plea: “Crunch Time for America”

In an editorial which appeared in today’s The Star Ledger  (S/L) under the headline quoted above, the writer is cautioning all those who are eligible to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that they had better do it before the March 31^st deadline, or face “fines” which “are higher than many people think.”

Take a deep breath and relax.  That editorial is wrong.

Lautenberg: The Ghouls are out already

The last Iris of my spring garden:  In
Memory of Senator Frank Lautenberg,
1924-2013 

Life contains surprises for all of us.  The most prominent is . . . well, death!  But not many want to be reminded of that troublesome truth.  Particularly if it relates to one’s own mortality.  There are few exceptions.

And so it was with great dismay, and with no small sense of irritation and outrage that I thought Tom Moran’s column  about Senator Frank Lautenberg in today’s The Star Ledger to be way off-base. 

TO SUMMARIZE:  Mr. Moran speculated that Lautenberg should have resigned to open up his seat “70 days before today’s primary, then Christie would have been forced to set the special election date this year, the OLS says.”  Moran prefaced that statement with, “You can call that tough.” 

THE REST OF THE STORY:  I don’t think so:  I consider Moran’s column and the timing of his near-death viewpoint ghoulish.