Posted on 12/03/2014 6:32:50 AM PST by C19fan
Sen. Tom Harkin, one of the coauthors of the Affordable Care Act, now thinks Democrats may have been better off not passing it at all and holding out for a better bill.
The Iowa Democrat who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, laments the complexity of legislation the Senate passed five years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Own it Harkin.
This “Law” was never meant to succeed. It was there to provide the stepping stone to the Marxist dream of “Government Controlled Single Payer” health care. It was its only purpose. It still may happen.
They voted for it, they own it.
After all, they would not listen to any one else. They wanted a health care law just for the politics.
And the politics didn’t work out the way they expected.
It sucks to be the retiring Tom Harkin.
“It sucks to be the retiring Tom Harkin.”
Why He and his family are set for life, on our dime.
What a disaster. First, UpChuck Schumer, now Harkin…rats jumping off the sinking Obamacare wreck. There should be NO ONE signing up this year….except for the Takers, of course.
Next thing he’s going to tell us: “Math is hard.”
It is complex by design.
That way the crafters of the law can hire themselves out to corporations and others to find the loopholes in the law (which they put in).
My thoughts too. I was shocked when they did pass it. I even promised my mom they wouldn’t do it, she was so worried...
...and with that goal in mind, complexity is a feature, not a bug.
That’s because with Obamacare as with “administrative law”, the wrong thing can never be done the right way.
There should be NO ONE signing up this year….except for the Takers, of course.
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Obola/HHS keep monkeying around with Obamacare .... they’re not making the situation better:
From: http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that 13 million will buy health insurance in the Obamacare exchanges by the end of 2015. To stay on a sustainable enrollment track, that 13 million estimate makes sense to me––leaving a net gain of only another 2 million in the third and final year of open enrollment.
Today, the administration said that their goal is for 9 million to 9.9 million to be purchasing health insurance on the exchanges by the end of 2015.
Is that a low-ball estimate designed to manage expectations?
Apparently. But playing expectation games is not what they need to be successful at.
Enrolling enough people for a sustainable insurance pool by the end of 2016 is what they will need.
If Obamacare isn’t up to a sustainable enrollment level by the time the health insurance company reinsurance protections expire at the end of 2016, the 2017 rate increases will be huge.
I think they want it overturned so it's not an issue in 2015/2016.
Many Democrats wanted single payer but conservative Democrats in the Senate would never vote for it.
So they had to take it out and settle for insurance exchanges to get their votes and to thwart a filibuster.
The irony for the Democrats is all those Red State Democrats are now gone.
I would suggest this. If you’d brought up this whole thing around the end of the 4th year as some promise for the second term of President Obama....too many Senators and Representatives from the Democrats would have jumped up and told him to forget about it because they’d see too many bogus deals by the White House. This only worked....because no one knew his history or the gimmicks of his administration.
By the end of January you won’t be able to find one democrat who admits to wanting Obamacare.
THEN REPEAL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think many of them want exactly that.
As least in the sense that republicans won't have it as an issue against them.
But the irony is, that once it is overturned democrats will make the fact it was overturned a campaign issue in the other direction.
I can hear the campaign rhetoric already:
"Those dastardly republicans didn't want poor people, blacks and women to have medical care so they killed Obamacare."
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