So the regime has decided, on its own, as it does in most situations, without involving the legislative branch, to delay FHer-care's employer mandate until 2015. Isn't that convenient? Takes a major problem with the whole undertaking off the table for the midterm election. Except that planners at America's companies will take the delay in implementation into account, thereby perpetuating the on-hold status of much of the nation's business activity.
It's like the ultimate waiver, of which the regime has already dispensed many.
You bet this bunch is engaged in orchestrated decline. They know their policies hobble America. It's implementing them in a way that's at least minimally palatable that requires a bit of art and timing.
The individual mandate stays in place, though. Any healthy twenty-something who, say, two years ago, did a bit of shopping for a health insurance policy and has a spectrum of numbers and options to compare is in for a major sticker shock when he or she does another round of shopping. It's a different ballgame, now that he or she is made to subsidize a wave of older, less robust comrades. I doubt if America's young adults are stupid enough to swallow that one.
Why should I "feel" for the young for having to do the same thing we had to do when we were so? As for this latest "moratorium" on implementation, it's clearly a BS political move which I am going to consider an admission of failure and move over to the side of the opposition to the plan and support its repeal. I do, however, still favor a universal plan. If that puts the cowardly carriers (see Universal's withdrawal from the private market) out of business, well, methinks, and Good!
ReplyDeleteCatastrophic-care insurance for the big-ticket items. Out of pocket for everything else. No government involvement.
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