If a real evaluation had occurred in August...maybe there would have been time. Frankly, if I were one of the thirty-five health insurance companies in the US....I would not take the bait on this. Too much chance for screw-ups or failure.
Adding to the mess...a bunch of lawyers are likely reviewing how each state moves forward. A President’s waiver? It’s not legal in any court as far as I can see. It had to be a legislative thing, and he just wasn’t going that direction.
The “fix”? It’s made things twice as bad as I can see.
They can’t just change their individual state policies based on what a president says at a press conference.
There has to be legislation passed, which would change the existing legislation which all of these states are operating under.
The president can’t just by decree change parts of his law.
Even a good liberal, Howard Dean, made this observation, saying that it was questionable that a president can just waive parts of the law, or extend deadline dates written into the text of Obamacare law. Or any law for that matter.
It would be a legal clusterfix, but I don’t any state allowing this to proceed.