Posted on 03/31/2014 9:54:07 AM PDT by mandrews222
The Rats Are Leaving the Ship They Helped to Build
It is a pathetic sight – Senate Democrats struck with Obamacare panic and the growing reality that there is no way out.
That has not stopped a group of Senators from proposing to “fix” the national health care law that is sinking their party and their president’s firm belief that big government liberalism can alter a huge chunk of the national economy.
It is more than a case of the rats leaving the sinking ship; the rats leaving the ship they helped to build.
Leading the group is two of the most vulnerable Democrats up for reelection this fall – Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Mark Begich of Alaska. Then there is Mark Warner of Virginia, considered earlier a safe seat but now facing a formidable Republican challenge.
Then there are three Senators along for the ride to stick up for their party – the always-unpredictable gadfly Joe Manchin of West Virginia plus freshmen Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Angus King of Maine.
The hapless group of Democrats showed more than a bit of chutzpah when they came up with a set of jaw-dropping proposals to alter and delay the ravages of Obamacare. It is a hopeless cause, but clearly, they think it is worth proposing something rather than standing idly by and watching the Obamacare tsunami swamp their Senate majority in November.
The group actually proposed a new Obamacare plan. They call it a Copper Plan to go along with the Bronze, Silver, and Gold plans offered on the Obamacare exchanges. The group said the Copper plan, which would provide lower premiums but higher out-of-pocket costs, would give consumers more choices and would make Obamacare more affordable. Fine time to think of that.
The group’s Obamacare fix gets even more brazen. It calls for directing state insurance regulators to explore selling health insurance across state lines. Republicans have been proposing this change to national health insurance policy for years. Democrats have refused to touch it. Better late than never.
There is more. The group actually suggested allowing employers with fewer than 100 employees to expand voluntary coverage. Considering that this group makes up about 98 percent of all businesses, this would ditch the employer mandate for good.
It is too early to know if the group’s Obamacare fix will see the light of day on the floor of the Senate. That is up to Majority Leader Harry Reid, now famous for proclaiming that Obamacare horror stories are lies.
Reid is in a bind. Along with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Reid is the president’s most enthusiastic Obamacare cheerleader. If he brings up the group’s Obamacare fix, he will be admitting that the law is both a policy and political disaster. He will open the door for scathing Republican criticism right on the floor of the Senate.
There is no way to “fix” Obamacare. It is a national disaster. Only Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and eventually a Republican president, can attack the problem. Republicans should stick to their guns and let Senate Democrats further expose their panic and desperation.
Mend it don't end it?
Pretty keen on promoting a single source, aren’t you?
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these deductables are essentially the same as no insurance at all.
we have a tax with zero benefit to the buyer.
What would that change? Most of the Bronze and Silver plans already have astronomical deductables. Creating a "copper" plan merely changes the one telling you that you can't afford any health care from the insurance company to the doctor.
A Copper Plan? How about a copper jacketed lead plan for these despicable pieces of collectivist filth?
What do they need to fix? I wish someone would ask them that. Ask these Dems, “What do you think is wrong with the law as it is, including the 35+ changes that Obama used his phone and pen to make.”
If they think it needs to be fixed or tweaked (as opposed to twerked), they should believe it is flawed. Where would they stick their finger in this leaky dyke? What hole in the sieve would they vote to plug?
That brings me to a point I always make that the GOP isnt allowed to,
Recall the main political argument for a personal mandate was the uninsured sticking hospitals (and us) with their emergency service bills? (mandated by federal law)
Well a mandate that allows high deductibles does nothing for that problem, its like allowing auto-liability insurance with large deductibles.
King said yesterday there is no ‘Obamacare’, there’s Aetna, UnitedHealth, Blue Cross but no ‘Obamacare’.
it is essentially a 100% deductible.
But fear not, the 100% deductible is fiancé by those who still have real work (not to be confused with government job)
Plenty of sound bites and videos to doom the entire party that voted for Obamapocalypse in the first place and then for the past 4 years told us it was the law of the land.
Embrace the suck...
How about the Scrap Metal plan?
My favorite part. The fedguv has prevented insurance companies from selling across state lines. Then, they use the interstate commerce clause to regulate their intrastate activities. What a country!
The group said the Copper plan, which would provide lower premiums but higher out-of-pocket costs, would give consumers more choices and would make Obamacare more affordable.
Bull shit...
Complete bull shit.
Higher than 6K out of pocket before it kicks in? If they can’t afford a higher monthly premium they sure as heck can’t afford to pay a 6k+ deductible either.
New anti Obamacare ad running in Michigan. It also reminds voters that democrat senate candidate Gary Peters voted for Obamacare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWygzLCQ2w
At least (s)he posted the full article.
True.
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