The Death of the Death of Obamacare

New York Magazine ^ | 1/16 | Jonathan Chait

[Uncle Miltie]

Someday, the shooting starts.

[JennysCool]

In my opening remarks, I compared Obamacare’s progress to renovating a house.

Renovating a house isn't necessarily fatal.

Whoa! Jonathan here gets his Kool-Aid in a continuous intravenous drip!

[Gen.Blather]

Can anybody put this into perspective? Is the author a screaming liberal or is this fair and balanced reporting? This is the first positive thing I’ve read about Democrat-care.

[nickcarraway]

The funny thing Chait is going against Obama. If ACA fails, then single payer is coming.

[Graewoulf]

Q: Who built Obamacare?

A: Obama built that. Period.

[nickcarraway]

Well, that’s not really true, the Heritage Foundation, Romney, and some dirtbag Congress people built it. Obama just stole the credit and lied about it.

[Fiji Hill]

Jonathan Chait used to write for New Republic, so caveat lector.

[henkster]

I knew that when 0bama won in 2012, that was the last chance to undo 0bamacare. It has become so entrenched in the fabric of our country it cannot be rooted out. Romney at least said he’d repeal it. From now on, we slide down the slippery slope to the sludge bucket of single-payer.

Whether or not this is what a nation of shallow thinking LIVs wanted is irrelevant; it’s what they voted for and what they got.

[Graewoulf]

What did Obama build?
Did he do “Hard Work?”
He didn’t build Obamacare!
“Somebody else built that!”

BTW, isn’t a symptom of a chronic victim that nothing is EVER his fault?

[Liz]

"Those Democrats leering over my shoulder owe me bigtime. This
healthcare bill insures we have a permanent Democratic majority."

"All except those Tea Party types, swallowed hook, line and sinker my promises that they could":
(1) keep their existing health plans,
(2) keep their own doctors that they like,
(3) keep their 25-year-olds on the family health plan,
(4) never be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition,
(5) sign up instantly on my tech-savvy government Web site,
(6) buy insurance only after becoming seriously ill."
(7) save $2,500 in annual premiums in the bargain....
(8) All without any new taxes.

"Them sonovagun Tea Partiers will rue the day they criticized my wonderful bill."

[The Great RJ]

Obamacare will continue to stumble forward and the complicit GOP leadership will do nothing to stop or even slow it. The next shoe to drop will be this fall when millions covered by group plans get dropped. We can hope that the voters will notice before the elections.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Take this with a HUGE grain of salt...

Jonathan Chait, member, Obama front group Journ-o-list:
http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-chait/75877/the-secrets-journolist

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2559245/posts

[Liz]

Pelosi Says Dems Focusing on 3 ‘R’s to Win 2014
Midterms: Recruiting, Raising Cash, Raising Issues...

Yoo hoo, Nancy you forgot "Obamacare"---the signature legislation of your president----how come you Dems forget that, Nance? Huh?

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Maybe this is why Dems wont run on Obamacare?

As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act :

OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”

Repeated over and over ---- with the promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.

LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1940's ERA EUROPE Obama And The Dumbos marching in lockstep. The persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

[Robert357]

The real issue is how many additional personal problems are voters going to face before the next election and before ObamaCare becomes so ingrained that it can not be canceled.

Federal implementation documents project that “most” employer health care plans will need to be canceled and replaced with plans developed under the exchanges. Since the vast majority of people get their health care through employer health insurance and employer requirements have been delayed a year, what will happen in late 2014?

When will either the costs of health insurance plans start to skyrocket? Or will the cost sharing (i.e. subsidy from the federal government to health insurance company's start?)

Similarly, when will doctors start saying they will not take new medicaid patients whose number has been swollen with the exchanges? When will the IRS start penalizing individuals and garnisheeing their earnings when they fail to pay the fines for not having health insurance.

Those are the things that will kill public support. However, by the time those real issues are felt by enough people it could be impossible to unroll the ObamaCare regulations as too many people will be “hooked” both from the standpoint of insurance companies, medical providers, and individuals.

This is a really bad law, but it may or may not be too late to kill it. The real question will be how many negative headlines doe it get between now and the November elections.

[Mount Athos]

Don’t insurance companies stand to win hundreds of billions of government dollars from Obamacare?

Would they let it go away quickly and easily if so?

We have a lot of passion here, but they have a lot of lobbying money.

[Vanbasten]

“There will be no glorious triumph of Obamacare, no cinematic score playing in the background, and no concession of defeat by the law’s opponents. That’s not how politics and public policy work.”

Well, somebody needs to tell Boehner and every moron RINO that, because they are under the mistaken impression that law is simply going to implode or some such nonsense.

Yet another article illustrating that Ted Cruz was right....

[The_Media_never_lie]

Why did I waste my time reading this?

[al baby]

Can anybody put this into perspective?

Its like using a rectal thermometer orally Good enough for you !!!

[C210N]

Romney at least said he’d repeal it....

Yes, he did say that prior to losing the election. Since they he has stated how he would repeal it: by REQUIRING ALL states to mandate insurance.