Conservatives constantly wax sentimental about the “small businesses” on “Main Street, USA,” but apparently, they’re okay with letting insurance companies rip them off. Sy Muckerjee from Think Progress reports that big health insurers, Anthem and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, have been ordered refund over $36 million in overcharges to small businesses, thanks to ‘Evil Obamacare.’ And that’s just in the state of California. A provision of the The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of the premiums they charge customers on actually providing health care. Imagine that! What could possibly be better for small business owners — who are often operating on a shoe string — than for them to be able to afford health insurance for themselves and their employees?

Furthermore, ‘Evil’ Obamacare has already saved $147 million for newly insured young adults, and also saved health insurance customers and tax payers last summer, when bloated insurance companies were forced to disgorge $1.1 billion in rebate checks to 12.8 million Americans due to their bloated CEO pay packages, marketing expenses, and whatever else they’ve been spending our money on.

While cheering the latest numbers as a victory for California small businesses and their employees, consumer advocates argue that the insurance industry should try harder to proactively lower costs for companies and individuals. “Health insurers should work to cut upfront premiums rather than reimburse consumers afterward,” said Jon Fox, consumer advocate at the California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Millions of dollars in rebates are a clear sign that health insurers are overcharging consumers.”

That sounds reasonable. Shouldn’t insurance companies run “lean and mean” like conservatives want our government to do? Much of ‘Evil Obamacare’ is even based on ideas originally proposed by these so-called “pro-business” Republicans. Yet, for some mysterious reason, Republicans in Congress keep trying to sabotage Obamacare, and have wasted time and taxpayers’ money by attempting to repeal it 37 times … and counting. Furthermore, the US Chamber of Commerce — which claims to advocate for small businesses — demanded that Congress repeal Obamacare last year, though they’ve been pretty quiet this year (perhaps because folks from Main Street USA tore them a new one). If they really ARE pro-business, as they claim, conservative opposition to Obamacare makes no sense. Hobbling companies of all sizes with inflated healthcare costs has reduced our businesses competitiveness internationally. Unless, what they mean by “pro-business” is that they don’t think people have any right to health coverage at all. But they couldn’t possibly mean that, could they?

On the lighter side, Stephen Colbert excoriates “Teflama Obama,” and explains the Republicans’ untenable position and repeated sabotage attempts on ‘Evil Obamacare’ in May 14th’s Colbert Report.

“I’m tellin’ you folks, the ‘donkeycrats’ just don’t get it. Every Obamacare repeal is unique because the Republicans never play this issue the same way twice, and I know, because I’ve got every Obamacare repeal vote on bootleg.”

Here’s the video:

As Molly Gum wrote for Addicting Info wrote in March, 2013, ‘Evil Obamacare’ is nothing like the ‘socialist’ single-payer systems in Europe, and will NOT lead to the government taking over our healthcare system (as much as many of us wish it would):

ObamaCare will not use your tax dollars to fund abortions

ObamaCare is not and will not lead to a government takeover of health care

ObamaCare will not increase the national debt or deficit

ObamaCare does not hurt health insurance companies, but actually increases their business

ObamaCare is not unconstitutional

ObamaCare is not socialism

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