Saturday, December 21, 2013

ObamaCare debacle update...

ObamaCare debacle update...  Because it's a fine Saturday, and we need a little schadenfreude to spice things up!

ObamaCare initiates self-destruction sequence.  Megan McArdle reads the latest tea leaves and concludes that ObamaCare as enacted is basically doomed.  Oh, I so want her to be right on this!

ObamaCare = CompuServe.  Rob Long, at Ricochet, also predicting the end of ObamaCare...

Obama repeals ObamaCare.  The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board says Obama's recent actions amount to a kinda-sorta repeal of the whole darned thing.  Then there's this:
Pulling the thread of the individual mandate also means that the whole scheme could unravel. Waiving ObamaCare rules for some citizens and continuing to squeeze the individual economic liberties of others by forcing them to buy what the White House now concedes is an unaffordable product is untenable. Mr. Obama is inviting a blanket hardship amnesty for everyone, which is what Republicans should demand.

The new political risk that the rules are liable to change at any moment will also be cycled into 2015 premiums. Expect another price spike late next summer. With ObamaCare looking like a loss-making book of business, a public declaration of penance by the insurance industry for helping to sell ObamaCare is long overdue.

The only political explanation for relaxing enforcement of the individual mandate—even at the risk of destabilizing ObamaCare in the long term—is that the White House is panicked that the whole entitlement is endangered. The insurance terminations and rollout fiasco could leave more people uninsured in 2014 than in 2013. ObamaCare's unpopularity with the public could cost Democrats the Senate in 2014, and a GOP Congress in 2015 could compel the White House to reopen the law and make major changes.

Republicans ought to prepare for that eventuality with insurance reforms beyond the "repeal" slogan, but they can also take some vindication in Thursday's reversal. Mr. Obama's actions are as damning about ObamaCare as anything Senator Ted Cruz has said, and they implicitly confirm that the law is quarter-baked and harmful. Mr. Obama is doing through executive fiat what Republicans shut down the government to get him to do.
That One is ducking, weaving, and dodging, doing whatever it takes to get through the current news cycle with ObamaCare intact.  This tactical behavior is, however, endangering his apparent strategic initiatives as led by ObamaCare.  He's losing, and losing ugly...

Who says Obama hasn't united the country?  John Fund points out that nothing Obama has done tops ObamaCare for getting citizens of every political stripe on the same page – the repeal ObamaCare page!

ObamaCare is falling apart before our eyes.  James Capretta rejoices...

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