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| Them darn Republicans.... |
It now seems indisputable that
Republican critics of the ACA were right. Duh! So are Democrats despondent
about the act’s failure? It doesn’t seem so....
Sabrina Corlette, an expert on the
health law at Georgetown University, said the law is not in danger of
melting down because of the way it is structured. She cited the
financial subsides that the law gives lower-income people to pay for
coverage. But wait a minute, if all we wanted to do was buy
subsidized health insurance for a relatively small number of people
not already covered by Medicaid, it could have been done at a
fraction of the cost of Obamacare. Which is not to say that it would
have been a good idea. Right?
Notably missing from the current
discussion of Obamacare is any sign of disappointment, let
alone panic, from the Democrats. The ACA was supposed to be Barack
Obama’s signature legislative achievement. Doesn’t he care that
the program that bears his name is falling apart? Seemingly not.
Democrats don’t expect to be punished for inflicting an expensive, failed program on the American people. Instead, they really believe they will be rewarded. As Obamacare continues its slow-motion collapse, they will shift to Plan B. “We tried the market-based approach,” they will say, “and it didn’t work. Now there is only one alternative left: single payer health coverage.” At that point, with the government already dominating health care through Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, and with genuinely free and private health care a dwindling remnant of the industry, they think the road to socialized medicine, the holy grail of modern leftism, will be open, said no sane person ever.....
This post excerpted from an article by John Hinderackerin on his Powerline blog.
