Allahpundit: Do the Democrats whove been championing this law actually know how it works? Its one thing for someone like Rubio to push the idea of delaying the mandate knowing that his proposal will go nowhere; its a crafty way to put Dems on the defensive politically. But now Democrats themselves are murmuring about delaying enrollment, which risks the same too many sick/not enough healthy financial nightmare for insurance companies, as a viable solution. Its not viable. Its not even viable if you subscribe to the liberals designed ObamaCare to fail theory. Even if thats true, they wouldnt design it to fail so badly that it might shake the publics faith in liberal technocracy; that makes the goal of eventually selling people on single-payer harder, not easier. And they wouldnt design it to fail immediately, when the publics still skeptical of ObamaCare. To build support for greater statist control of health care, they need to impress people by showing that their contraption can run smoothly for awhile. Then, years from now, when they have a majority in Congress again, they can start touting single-payer as the key to lowering health-care costs for everyone. A meltdown on the federal exchange right out of the gate followed by skyrocketing premiums nationwide as the industry copes with the death spiral is … not helpful to that project. Which brings me back to my question. What are Shaheen, Pascrell, and Wasserman-Schultz doing touting a partial solution thats apt to lead to the worst-case scenario? If you cant fix the website immediately, your only option is to delay the law in its entirety so that insurers arent stuck figuring out a way to pay for preexisting conditions next year with no new revenue.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:30:49 +0000
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