ObamaCare

on the ropes?

The ACA, to put it gently, is already on shaky ground. Just last week, for example, the LA Times reported that UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest insurer, is dropping out of California’s individual market. Similarly, Blue Cross Blue Shield will not participate in the exchanges in Iowa and South Dakota in 2014. And the WSJ puts the delay of the employer mandate in its discouraging context. Along with the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the Medicaid expansion (28 states haven’t yet agreed to expand) and the refusal by many states (over 30) to set up their own health exchanges, the delay is the third major challenge to the central goal of the law: expanding access to insurance.

“You’ve got three body blows toward expansion of coverage,” said Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, a research unit of Deloitte LLP. “It’s three punches in a row.”

Ultimately, this will be decided in sixteen months. Without RomneyCare to muddy the waters, it will be a much better issue for Republicans.

4 thoughts on “ObamaCare”

  1. Facetiously,

    Can we bet on this?
    Possible Outcomes:
    1)Repeal
    2)Partial repeal/partial implementation (same category)
    3)Repeal w/replace
    4)Full implementation (with all the mess)
    5)Additional legislation -> further left outcome
    6)Nullification, i.e.: general chaos in legal/political system
    7)Nullification, i.e.: separate defacto healthcare ‘compacts’ in nation

    I prefer 3, am partial to 7. But I suspect we’ll be sold 3 but it’s really gonna end up as 5.

  2. My bet.

    The friends of Obama will be paid. New and lavishly funded programs for progressive NGO’s, unions, progressive FOR profit corporate friends such as AARP, and fellow travelers. Punishment and increased costs for anyone not ponying up big bucks for Democrats and not participating in corruption and payments for friends and family of Democrat leaders.

    But not so much more. No real health care will change hands. Like a tort settlement for class action consumers where the lawyers get $20 million and the plaintiffs get a $10 discount coupon towards a new Chevy.

  3. I can’t help but wonder whether the individual exchanges were created as a backdoor bailout for bankrupt cities as part of the plan or if the cities just seized on an opportunity that the ObamaCare writers didn’t envision. Either way, it looks pretty bad for those who wrote the legislation.

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