And now we know who. White House Forces Obamacare Insurers To Cover Unpaid Patients At A Loss
…what happened on Thursday, December 12 will stand as one of the most lawless acts yet committed by this administration. The White House—having canceled Americans’ old health plans, and having botched the system for enrolling people in new ones—knows that millions of Americans will enter the new year without health coverage. So instead of actually fixing the problem, the administration is retroactively attempting to force insurers to hand out free health care—at a loss—to those whom the White House has rendered uninsured.
The law that keeps on giving. To its opponents.
If you want to keep up with ∅bamaCare(less) there is a blog devoted to it: Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review.
A recent article from that blog covers sign ups over the last ten weeks or so.
California enrolled 107,000 people in private plans in the first two months. But California has cancelled 800,000 current individual health plans effective January 1––all of whom have to buy a new plan by January 1 or become uninsured. The only place those who are subsidy eligible can get a subsidized plan is in the California exchange. In addition, California has about 2.5 million people uninsured and exchange eligible. A Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) report estimated that California has 1.4 million of those people eligible for subsidies in the exchange. Given the $250 million in outreach and marketing money the federal government has earmarked for California’s exchange, the dearth of sign-ups so far is concerning.
There are more states covered in that post. Read it if you can stomach the bad news.
I expect a huge turn over in the House and Senate if the Republicans don’t blow it. And if the Democrats don’t manage to change the subject. And right on cue a Democrat has changed the subject to marijuana. Just as I predicted. And just in case you were wondering. Her name is Heather Mizeur and she is running for Governor of Maryland. I expect to see a lot more of this come the end of summer 2014. The Democrats will definitely need something. And with about 80% favoring med pot and about 60% favoring full legalization they may have it. I don’t think it will fully save them. But it will stanch the bleeding some.
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I’m not so sanguine about the 2014 elections. The opportunity is there, all right, but I don’t think the Republicans are set up for it.
The RINO/establishment wing doesn’t have the incentive to go for the throat–they’re the big fish in a small pond, and they like it that way. A big win would bring in all kinds of new people with new ideas, and some of them might get the idea that the old guard should move over for the new blood.
The Tea Party will be kept out of it. The Republican establishment won’t support them, on top of which you will now witness the power of our fully weaponized and politically operational battle sta–err, I mean Federal bureaucracy. That’s what nuking the Senate filibuster was all about–getting a rubber-stamp court that will allow regulations through that are designed to destroy the Tea Party’s finances.
Social conservatives have already won pretty much every district in which they can affect the outcome. Their influence is at maximum already.
Libertarians don’t have an effect. For 80% of of them, “I’m a libertarian” actually translates to “I can’t stand Democrat policies, but for cultural reasons I can’t vote Republican.” They will not affect the vote.
I hope I’m wrong about this. If I’m right, the next three years will destroy our economy, and maybe the Constitution too. But changing things in 2014 would require large numbers of leftists to stay home, and Libertarians to vote Republican. I just can’t see that happening.
You will note my caveat: if the Republicans don’t blow it.
With a mention of just one of the ways they could blow it.
We don’t even need any structural change for Rs to blow it.
Dear sweet Jesus. This Mizeur woman’s Wikipedia article makes it appear that she’s composed entirely of leftist cliches. Are we sure she’s real? Or is she a fictional troll character, like Amina al Omari?
Libertarians don’t have an effect. For 80% of of them, “I’m a libertarian” actually translates to “I can’t stand Democrat policies, but for cultural reasons I can’t vote Republican.” They will not affect the vote.
Exactly right. Very well put. I call the “cultural” stuff – moral socialism.
I’m calling it: the GOP will nominate the loathsome Chris Christie in 2016 and run him against Hillary Clinton. Working-class whites will once again stay home and clean our guns rather than hold our noses and vote for another repugnant RINO, as we have since 1996, and the GOP establishment will watch, slackjawed and mindboggled, while Hitlery wins in a “landslide” of illegal votes from wetbacks and absentee ballots from five or ten million nonexistent people created by “community activist groups.” It would serve them right to lose the House too, once they finish purging their ranks of suspected Tea Party sympathizers.
Is anyone taking bets on when the next civil war will start?