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.
Can anybody put this into perspective?
Its like using a rectal thermometer orally Good enough for you !!!
Chait is an uberliberal Obamafellator.
Well, he is the guy who wrote, "The Case for Bush Hatred," "More Reasons I Hate George Bush," and also "The Case for Obama: Why He Is a Great President. Yes, Great." So you can make up your own mind about him.
It comes across like a liberal pretending to be conservative. It’s another - but less charming way they lie.
I couldn't get through that paragraphless piece of Chait.
But every conservative I've seen on the Fox panels and on the Larry Kudlow show (I know he's not a conservative but he does dislike Obama and Obamacare) seem to be conceding that nothing can be done.
Specifically they have been talking about the "bailout" which will be necessary to keep the insurance companies when the enrollment and the demographics don't pan out.
Apparently the insurance companies already have a tax-fueled slush fund that is supposed to get them through the first three years, no matter what.
And after that, if I understand the conversations correctly, it is written into the bill that taxpayers will continue to fund the insurers if their premiums etc. don't provide them with an agreed-upon return.
The two economists (or whatever) on Kudlow tonight were insisting that this was not a "bailout," it is simply part of the bill. And if Obamacare doesn't fund itself, then taxpayers will have to, no matter what.
On the Fox Report the other night Tucker Carlson (yes, I also know he is no movement conservative, but he is an enemy of Obamacare) ruefully stated that Rubio and others can pretend to try to roll back the bailout, but they will not do it, and know they cannot do it, because the health care system will crash without the funding.
And there are not enough conservatives in the congress to push matters to that edge and to have at the ready a workable alternative (including what we had before Obamacare).
That's what I have gathered, and it has had me in a rage for two days.