Allapundit at Hot Air concludes his great piece on all this, including mention of yet another White-House-delayed piece of FHer-care, namely postponement of enrollment in some online small-business exchanges, and the MEC giving yet another speech with a Baghdad Bob tone about how it's all going swell, with an interesting scenario:
Exit question: At this point, would the White House rather meet Boehner’s demand for a one-year delay of all of ObamaCare or Manchin’s demand for a one-year delay of the individual mandate specifically? I think there’s more political risk to the latter than the former, no? If you delay the whole law, you buy yourself time to work out all the bugs before trying again at a rollout next year. It’ll be hugely embarrassing to the White House to postpone things when they’re this close to launch, and there are doubtless lots of congressional Democrats who don’t want O-Care becoming a key issue right before the midterms, but that’s survivable. What’s potentially not survivable is rolling out the exchanges now minus the individual mandate, which means lots of young adults will face no legal compulsion to buy in. If (as Bill Clinton noted two days ago) healthy uninsured people refuse to fork over their money, then insurers suddenly don’t have a pool of revenue to cover all the people with preexisting conditions who are signing up, and then the whole scheme starts to collapse. There’ll be no delays after that; if insurers start crumbling, we’ll be in post-ObamaCare mode as a country. Better, then, to hit pause on the whole thing if you’re O to prevent that sort of collapse, right?
Sounds like showboating more designed to make the Pubs look good going into the mid term elections. I'd say no thanks, show me a deal that accepts the duly passed, constitutionally sound law of the land no strings attached. You think you have found a soft spot to slip the sword in. if Obama is not prepared to roll this thing out it's his bad and he better be hiring troops to work round the clock to roll this thing out. His actions have been geared towards the mid-terms too. Politics, schmolitics...
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ReplyDeleteI suppose it's OK to think highly of one's self, this is a close call, it's always been a close call, most presidential elections since 2000 have been close calls at least since 2000. Long live the free Americans who have health insurance through their employer. I know these Americans were largely satisfied with what they had. My experience has been that even lawyers who do not specialize in insurance matters have a hard time figuring out the policies, status quo or no. Policyholders almost never read their policies, status quo or no, until they have a loss and I'm tellin' you, in my experience working in the insurance profression, only then do they find out what is covered/not covered, deductiblers and co-pay. Bravo for capitalizing on the confusion. One more time here: do you know anyone on social insurance of any form at this time? Kick her out of bed, lol.
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