Dems Test the Waters on Obamacare Overhaul (All for show)

fox news ^ | 2/8/2011 | By Chris Stirewalt

[tobyhill]

Major Surgery Ahead for Obamacare

"We're running numbers to see how many new people we can get into the pool with something less than a mandate, something that would be more limited enrollment periods with severe financial penalties for not signing up."

-- Sen Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., talking to Politico about her efforts to repeal the provision for mandatory health insurance in President Obama's national health care law.

Democrats are getting on the record with their opposition to the controversial provision of President Obama's national health-care law that requires all Americans to purchase private insurance or be enrolled in an approved government program.

Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., John Tester, D-Mont., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. are reportedly looking at an alternative to the rule at the heart of the Obama law and at the heart of a constitutional challenge to it now moving through federal court. They also all happen to be facing brutal reelection bids next year.

[therightliveswithus]

If they run on ObamaCare, they’ll just help the GOP in 2012

[apillar]

It seems they are looking at something like Medicare where if you fail to sign up on your 65th birthday you have to pay a much higher premium the longer you wait. I see some obvious problems with it (excluding the whole legality of Obamacare in general). The reason that this system works for Medicare, but the reason it won't work for Obamacare is that most senior citizens are financially conservative and concerned about health care. However, most of the 20 somethings that would be the target of this are neither of those two things, and many if not most will be more than willing to take a pass on healthcare and accept enormous premiums sometime in the future figuring its too far down the line to worry about and they expect to be rich by then anyway, (at least that would have been my logic when I was 25.

[chris_bdba]

Kill it dead. If people want insurance they can buy it themselves most states have pools now for those who can’t get insurance and those that don’t can put them in place.The government can’t make insurance cheaper without cutting services that is the reality.

[VOA]

“
“We’re running numbers to see how many new people we can get into the
pool with something less than a mandate, something that would be more
limited enrollment periods with severe financial penalties for not signing up.”

— Sen Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,...
“

Guffaw!
McCaskill, one of first and most prominent promoters of Obama for
President...
is headed for the tall grass.

When Robin Carnahan (D) lost to Roy Blunt for Senate AND a vote in MO
went 70% against Obamacare...McCaskill probably started sweating bullets.

I hope she is electoral toast in 2012.

[VOA]

“
Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., John Tester, D-Mont., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
are reportedly looking at an alternative to the rule at the heart of the Obama law...
“

Cluck, cluck, cluck...
(sound of scared chickens)