I know he has delayed, but as Dick Morris recently outlined, that does not help in a lot of the states that are competitive, because these states never signed on to the first optional round of delays for insurance companies to keep substandard plans. These states include Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, West Virginia, Minnesota, Oregon, and Virginia. The state insurance commissioners have already rejected the delays.
All you say is good analysis, but this proposed tactic is simply to force the democrats to vote on something that appears to offer relief. Few people beyond political junkies know the info that you provided. But it’s easy to understand the idea that dems voted against personal relief and against Medicare doctors.
It’s just that there is nothing substantive that can be done while Obama is president, even with Republican control of both houses. So, why not embarrass the people who rammed this mess down our throats?