The Hill: "
The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats."
As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.
Prolonging the “keep your plan” fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall.
The administration is further delaying
the delay announced last November. At this rate, ObamaCare is going to be delayed smack dab into the middle of 'Hillary for president' campaign season.
Clintonistas must be wondering.
The cancellations would have created a firestorm for Democratic candidates in the last, crucial weeks before Election Day.
What cancellations? I thought Harry Reid said... Didn't Harry Reid say cancellation stories were
lies?
The White House is intent on protecting its allies in the Senate, where Democrats face a battle to keep control of the chamber.
Keep
tight control, is how I would describe it.
“I don’t see how they could have a bunch of these announcements going out in September,” one consultant in the health insurance industry said. “Not when they’re trying to defend the Senate and keep their losses at a minimum in the House. This is not something to have out there right before the election.” read more
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Wasn't all this Ted Cruz's idea. Does Obama have any original ideas beyond the one where he thinks Republicans are the only bad guys in the world who can't be trusted to be nice guys.
You need to go back and look at some of the comments from Democrats when the Republicans wanted to delay Obamacare. It was an evil, cruel, selfish, unpatriotic, and a totally politically driven idea.
They were right, but it took Obama to use it that way. He has a real talent for that shit.
Throw in a $10 minimum wage with ACA, and some young people will never work again.
I thought the ACA was so important they had to pass it on party line vote, in the dead of night, against the wishes of a majority of American Citizens.
oh riiiiiight.
"easing election pressure on Democrats."
Will Republicans be so stupid as to NOT point out that "if you put Dems back in office, they will ultimately implement Obamacare, no matter what a disaster it is".
Then again, is the low-information voter paying attention even to the Obamacare train wreck?
I talked at length to a leftie friend recently about Obamacare, Obama, and Harry Reid. At the end of the conversation in resignation they said: "Just tell me who to vote for next time, cause I'm totally disappointed in what I've been doing."
I wonder how many of those are out there. I was in that exact same frame of mind too back around 1980.
Seriously, bagoh?
I hope there are others. It's maddening how badly they fucked this thing up. Now they are in full time lies-and-shift-attention mode.
I can hardly read about it anymore.
People I talk to almost across the board see the ACA as a disaster, and this administration as a failure to some degree. Still, few of them on the left would change their votes if they had it to do over again. They have such hatred for Republicans and a litany of absurd beliefs about them being racist and sexist and stupid and authoritarian.
I think a lot of liberals are suffering full bore cognitive dissonance right now. Everything they thought they believed is falling to shit. At least they can use the excuse of "I didn't really think it through." If they did, well, you have my sympathy, and maybe you should wear a helmet.
I also get the sense of increasing desperation as to the gay/black/transgender circus of complaints, more and more and more of them, as if something were bubbling up and about to boil over.
Or maybe it's just me.
I think you are exactly right Pogo. They had it all in their hands and it has turned to dust. So they are doubling down.
Who knows how far they will go?
Will Obama actually step down when his term is over? He has no problem not obeying the law. He has a phone and a pen after all.
"Everything that the left has done, from breaking up the family to driving out manufacturing industries to promoting Third World immigration has made its own spending completely unsustainable. On a social level alone, we don't have the people we need to pay the bills. And at the rate we are going, we will only run up more bills that our demographics and our culture can no longer cash.
By 2031, nearly a century after the Social Security Act, an estimated 75 million baby boomers will have retired. Aside from the demographic disparity in worker ages is a subtler disparity in worker productivity and independence as senior citizens are left chasing social spending dollars that are increasingly going to a younger population. ObamaCare with its Medicare Advantage cuts was a bellwether of the shift in health care spending from seniors to the welfare population.
14 million people are now on Disability. That means that there are more people on Disability than there were people in the country during the War of 1812. Half of those on Disability are claiming back problems or mental problems. There are over a million children on Disability and the program is packed with younger recipients who are substituting it for welfare."
An older relative had a mini-stroke, and was diagnosed as needing his carotids roto-rootered.
This happened last Wedsneday or so. So far, he has not been scheduled for the procedure. Is it just that he's not bad off enough that there's a rush? Or is there a back up in the system due to increased patient load?
I'd be thrilled if all of your leftie pals listened to you, Bagoh.
They are lucky to have such a sharp cookie as a friend.
Party Über Alles.
Reminds me of the guy with the bucket in the hull of the Titanic.
deborah said...
An older relative had a mini-stroke, and was diagnosed as needing his carotids roto-rootered.
This happened last Wedsneday or so. So far, he has not been scheduled for the procedure. Is it just that he's not bad off enough that there's a rush? Or is there a back up in the system due to increased patient load?
Another issue where Sarah Palin was right, sad to say.
If the Republicans had any moxie (and that's a big if) they'd go to court to sue the Obama adminstration to implement Obamacare on it's original schedule.
Make them live with the law as they passed it.
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