Exactly. The exchanges were never meant to work. The idea behind this legislation was to drive everyone to government health care.
Anyone who believes otherwise is a fool.
What is a state like South or North Dakota going to do with a small population?
Simple answer: they will be subsidizing states with big electoral clout like California and told to be happy with any scraps which fall from the table.
Let’s learn from California’s failure -
To get his way he’s trying to trick us by offering small business owners healthcare “exchanges” to “allow” them to buy their employees government run healthcare at low cost. This is a cynical ploy by Obama modeled on a California healthcare “exchange” system that was a crashing failure. That failure tantalizes Obama because it offers a way to get all of America into his clutches.
In 1993 California began offering its small businesses a chance to buy healthcare insurance from a state run exchange which was eventually handed off to a private nonprofit organization.
By 2006 the operation collapsed under real world market forces. Businesses with young healthy cheaper to insure workers bypassed the exchange and bought coverage directly from private companies. Soon the companies with older and more medically demanding employees were left in an ever shrinking pool of members. Rates for the remaining members went higher as their numbers went down and this continued until the system collapsed.
This is the truth Obama and the Democrats have been hiding about these exchanges. They love them precisely because they don’t work.
Sadly,the only debate going on now is do we kill private insurance within the next couple of years with the “Public Option” or do we take a decade or so to slowly strangle it with co-ops, mandates and hyper-regulation?