What??? Didn’t Paul Krugman just declare that ObamaCare is a great success? Surely theNew York Times can’t be wrong......
Because the GOP-wing of the Democrat party will NEVER repeal it.
That's exactly right. Personally, I think everyone knew this thing was going to be a complete disaster but they also knew the system that existed before ObamaCare had the same fatal flaws. This was probably the best way for the whole thing to collapse. Years from now when people wonder how the whole disaster unfolded, even Democrats will gnash their teeth and curse the name of the jug-eared Kenyan exchange student whose name was stamped on it.
You gotta give Democrats a lot of credit for working it out this way. If there was any truth in Washington, this idiocy would have been called PelosiCare instead of ObamaCare.
“I’ve been wondering since the beginning how anyone thought Obamacare was going to work.”
It’ll work perfectly - its one and only purpose was always to weaken and undermine the American economy and the American way of life, and, at this, it’s doing just fine, thank you.
Print that money, shovel it in. Print that money, shovel it in.
Thanks to the Fed, a currency backed by nothing, and zero interest rates, there will always be more money for government social engineering schemes. Why does anyone believe Obamacare is in a death spiral?
You're giving Obama and his advisers either too much or too little credit, depending on where you're coming from.
The answer to all your initial questions is simple and obvious : It never was it isn't now, and it will never be insurance. At least not in the legal sense that existed for over 500 years.
But for Obama, Jarrett and all the hundreds of socialists and 'progressives' in his administration there wasn't time to waste considering niceties such as honest, transparency, plain language, common sense and legal definitions!
Zero information and sub-70 IQ citizens rejoice!
A lib family member has been begging - BEGGING - my son to look at Obamacare. He’s had privately purchased ins for years, and she is convinced ins companies are all evil and if he would only look he would find a much better plan from OC.
She has tried calling him behind my back, texting - just not taking his word for it that OC is a huge scam that does NOT give good value, even with subsidies. Finally a few weeks ago he sat down with her and went through his plan with her.
She was astounded. She could not believe that OC was almost twice the price and less value than a private plan.
They believe the koolaid, that normal people have no decent health care, and need to be rescued by OC. When you show them proof OC is just messing it all up, they don’t know what to think.
In my view, the very purpose of Obamacare is to destroy the insurance companies and then, ta da, Democrats ride to the rescue by taking over completely with a single-payer system. "We had to it. Those evil insurance companies abandoned us."
Given the fact that the GOP no longer talks about repealing the mess this sentence doesn't fill me with a lot of optimism.
I am having SO much fun telling the liberals that I told them so.
Unfortunately, one of them is so enamored with $8/month birth control that she doesn’t care about people dying.
DEATH PANELS, BABY coming for Republicans....bet on it....they KNOW who you VOTE FOR and WHO YOU GIVE MONEY TO!!
One thing I don’t see discussed much is what happens to enrollees when the next recession hits. The insurance companies will be bailed out, but I can foresee a living hell for many that live paycheck to paycheck. In theory they are suppose to notify the exchange and have their subsidy adjusted upward. But even then, it isn’t likely they would be able to come up with their share of the payment out of pocket. So that would mean either letting the exchange insurance expire or taking on debt to make the payment until cash flow can be adjusted.