Why are we being flooded with stories of people expressing surprise about the costs associated with Obamacare enrollment or purchasing individual plans that conform to the law’s requirements? Don’t tell me it’s because you believed Obama when he made all those promises about blah, blah, blah. If you believed anything he said, shame on you.

I didn’t believe him because at least four years ago I started asking my doctors — primary care and specialists — what they thought Obama’s vision of health care reform would lead to. (This was more helpful than asking the American Medical Association, which endorsed Obamacare.) My docs talked mostly about three issues: the orchestrated rationing of health care, much more intervention by the government in health care decisions and higher costs for people like me. A couple of them predicted a coming doctor shortage, but that seemed self-serving.

Next questions:

Am I the only person in America who ever discussed with his doctors what was coming down the road? Why the shock and awe now that it’s being rolled out?