The message for Pubs is the same as it's been: don't contribute your fingerprints

The signs of FHer desperation are mounting.  The talk of a "fix" that would help those whose plans are cancelled is pretty empty.  What are they gonna do?  The operative term in that situation is "canceled."  The insurance companies have already triggered the administrative mechanisms that take these people out of the category known as "customers."  Any "reinstated" plans would be nothing more than the plans they told their former customers they couldn't afford to offer - i.e., plans with all the bells and whistles of FHer-care.

Still, Fred Upton offers a proposal that, for this reason, is an empty gesture.  But profoundly frustrated FHers in Congress want to be seen as putting daylight between themselves and the MEC regime, so they are starting to talk of the Upton proposal's appeal.

Over in the Senate, Mary Landrieu's plan seems to have more substance to it, except it, too, basically just returns the focus to the kinds of policies the insurance companies can't afford to provide.  Then comes noise from the regime that maybe there's some way to financially assist people who have been cancelled.  That requires more money, which raises the question of where, in a time of over $17 trillion debt, it's going to come from.  And don't forget that FHers will be reminded, if the Upton or Landrieu plans or any similar approaches go forward, that they'll further drain the exchanges of healthy young people.

The scenario continues to shift, but the message for Pubs remains the same:  don't get excited over Landrieu or Upton.  Don't let the word "fix" pass your lips.  We are finally at the moment where the Freedom-Haters own the one initiative for which they pined for a century, and which is unfolding as a disaster that will be their undoing.  Pubs, if you have to talk at all, speak of free markets, the centrality of the patient-doctor relationship, portable insurance, competition across state lines, savings accounts - and, as always, drastically lower taxes. But right now, mainly all you gotta do is watch this thing crash and burn.