As Predicted, ObamaCare Plunges Into 'Utter Chaos'

[Lando Lincoln]

As Predicted, ObamaCare Plunges Into 'Utter Chaos'
Forbes Magazine
Michael F. Cannon, Contributor
12/27/2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelcannon/2013/12/27/as-predicted-obamacare-plunges-into-utter-chaos/

My December 2012 prediction that ObamaCare’s health insurance “exchanges” would not be ready on time proved true by July 2013, when President Obama unilaterally delayed the law’s employer mandate for a year. It proved painfully, obviously true when the Exchanges crashed upon takeoff on October 1, just as ObamaCare was throwing millions out of their current health plans.

My colleague Jagadeesh Gokhale‘s February 2013 prediction of “utter chaos” (audio here, at 48: 25) arguably proved true in October, and is now evident in President Obama’s decision to exempt from the individual mandate those millions whose plans Obama himself cancelled.

This categorical exemption is a bigger deal than it seems. With it, President Obama has admitted ObamaCare will strip many people of their health insurance and leave them with gaps in coverage, or no affordable coverage options at all. It is an implicit admission that ObamaCare has created economic peril for millions of Americans and political peril for Democrats.

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[Oceander]

In this case it must be very cold comfort to have your predictions confirmed.

[rangerrebew]

Government program = monster for people; the usual result.

[Lando Lincoln]

I agree with both of you.  The Democrats, and especially Obama, will do ANYTHING to salvage this wreck.  If that means harming real people, or collapsing the economy, or maligning the Constitution... so be it.  The final chapters of this debacle will be painful and destructive.  It is indeed cold comfort, at this moment, that the Democrats may pay a political price for the mess.

[andy58-in-nh]

I agree with both of you.  The Democrats, and especially Obama, will do ANYTHING to salvage this wreck.  If that means harming real people, or collapsing the economy, or maligning the Constitution... so be it.  The final chapters of this debacle will be painful and destructive.  It is indeed cold comfort, at this moment, that the Democrats may pay a political price for the mess.

"Catastrophe" may not be a powerful enough word to describe what is coming - not merely in terms of what the imposition of ACA/ObamaCare will do all by itself, but also with respect to what Democrats will likely be willing to do to defend and protect it.

Nice to see you back, Lando. Sorry to hear about your dad.

[SouthTexas]

I agree with both of you.  The Democrats, and especially Obama, will do ANYTHING to salvage this wreck.  If that means harming real people, or collapsing the economy, or maligning the Constitution... so be it.  The final chapters of this debacle will be painful and destructive.  It is indeed cold comfort, at this moment, that the Democrats may pay a political price for the mess.

"May" is the key word there.  Sure is a shame when so many can see the obvious but are continually swayed my more free sh*t.