5 years ago today, President Obama signed his health care bill into law. Since then Americans have watched their paychecks shrink because of the law. Hard-working American taxpayers have paid billions of dollars in higher taxes because of the law. They have had less health care choice because of the law. So what does the President say about all of this? What does the President say to the millions of Americans who have had to suffer-- suffer--through a long list of costly and appalling side effects of the President's health care law? Well, last week he gave a speech in Cleveland and he said, ``It's working even better than I expected.'' He repeated the same thing this weekend, saying, ``It's working even better than I expected.'' Has the President not seen what has happened to workers' paychecks over the last 5 years? Maybe the President missed an article by the Associated Press last Wednesday. The headline was: ``Health care law paperwork costs small businesses thousands.'' The article said, ``Complying with the health care law is costing small businesses thousands of dollars that they didn't have to spend before the new regulations went into effect.'' The article gives the example of Mike Patton, who has a flooring company in the San Francisco Bay area. All of the extra ObamaCare paperwork is costing him about $25,000 a year.…
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