I think what most people don’t get is that this isn’t about the Insurance companies or the people who buy insurance. Obama couldn’t care less about them because, for the most part, they are not his Base. Rather it is about the multitude who will use Obamacare to sign up for Medicaid. That is the sweet spot for the Dems that no one is concerned with (yet). For every 1 person who is buying insurance off these exchanges, 10+ are signing up for Medicaid. And all of these people will be good Democratic voters for the rest of their lives. The fact that it will accelerate the bankruptcy of the country and the imposition of fascist martial law (to maintain the Entitlement state) is just icing on the cake.
Silly GOP.
Will physicians start dropping/not accepting new medicaid patients?
That is true, but the people who buy /use insurance are a much larger, but politically diverse group. I'm sure some have never voted in their lives.
And yet, all their anger now should be directed at one party, the Democrats who played politics with their health care. That is the message that will need to be delivered, and effectively enough to drive that anger to the polls to take action.
You spend a whole paragraph showing the rancid policy of the socialists on Medicaid and how they plan to use this to maintain power and hike the deficit and then you end with "silly GOP"?
Huh?
Well put.
No “free stuff” from the government is ever recinded by voters. They always demand more funding for it.
The 2014 election mantra will be: “The Republicans want to cut your healthcare!”
I disagree with you and the author. This is why.
Fed Register/Vol. 75, No. 116/Thu, June 17, 2010/ 34553 (10s of millions will lose empl insurance)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3088618/posts
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TABLE 3—ESTIMATES OF THE CUMULATIVE PERCENTAGE OF EMPLOYER PLANS RELINQUISHING THEIR GRANDFATHERED STATUS, 2011–2013
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“Under this assumption, the Departments’ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013. The low-end estimates are for 49 percent and 34 percent of small and large employer plans, respectively, to have relinquished grandfather status, and the high-end estimates are 80 percent and 64 percent, respectively.”
If nothing changes, next year at this time 10’s of millions will have lost their insurance. This was known since June, 2010. These estimates are from the Treasury. People are going to be pissed. Pissed like you have never seen before. I'm one of those people. I have great insurance and I may lose it.
And all of these people will be good Democratic voters for the rest of their lives.
You might be right but there is also a chance that finding a doctor who will see you or see you 12 months from now will be an issue. Emergency rooms might still be full of those who can’t find a doctor who will take them. I don’t see a mass of people moving from emergency rooms to doctors they can’t see. It’ll remain to be an issue as thousands complain that they can’t get medical care. This isn’t likely to benefit the progressives.