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Sep 05, 2016 | By Jeffrey H. AndersonCredit: Tim OglineWith Aetna’s announcement that it is pulling out of most government-run exchanges, Obamacare's death spiral has begun to accelerate. Few but the sickest or most heavily subsidized people want anything to do with the (inaptly named) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's high-priced, high-deductible, narrow-network plans. Insurers are responding to sicker risk pools and bigger losses by raising rates, which makes the plans even less attractive to the young and healthy—which makes the risk pools sicker, which makes the rates rise further. And the spiral continues, like water circling the drain.No less of an Obamacare cheerleader than the New York Times's Paul Krugman admits this is "genuine bad news" that shows "some real problems are cropping up."......The American people are clearly on conservatives' side on this issue. Liberals, meanwhile, are looking in vain for a political escape-hatch. After Aetna's announcement, Neera Tanden, longtime Hillary Clinton adviser and president of the Center for American Progress (which works hand-in-glove with the Obama administration), said that Clinton "was hoping we had just moved beyond a fight on" Obamacare. That was pure fantasy. With rates escalating and options shrinking, the truth is that—six years after Obama signed his namesake into law—the Obamacare fight is nowhere near over. If anything, it is intensifying.http://www.weeklystandard.com/there-is-no-fix/article/2003998
Liberals, meanwhile, are looking in vain for a political escape-hatch.
ObamaCare was never meant to work, it's goal was to break the system, so that Single-Payer could come in and "save the day."
ObamaCare was never meant to work, it's goal was to break the system, so that Single-Payer could come in and "save the day."Of course Chief Judas Roberts, couldn't figure that out.
What they're looking for is socialized medicine and a utopian fantasy that doesn't exist.
What is Trump's solution? Universal healthcare. Single payer.Problem solved.