Just based on how the Obamacare exchange rollout is going, I’d say Obamacare has an excellent chance of stopping itself, without any assistance from Republicans. Combine gross gov’t incompetence with a defiance of personal economic behavior, and you have, to quote Democrat Sen. Max Baucus, a “train wreck”.
It needs to have the proverbial stake driven in its heart now. Congress knows how to “fix” disastrous legislation by piling on “fixes” that make it even more costly and complicated without actually killing it. See, for example, the IRS code.
I agree with you. Obamacare is will commit suicide. Wait till these folks go looking for a doctor.
Agree absolutely. Anytime you put politicians in charge of an engineering project, political considerations will take precedence over good engineering principles. And eventually the chickens come home to roost - the space shuttle crashes, or the bridge collapses, or the ObamaCare project (project Titanic) sinks.
The ACA puts too many levers of power in the hands of government for it to break down under its own weight. As it stands, they can just jettison the parts they don’t like to save the core of it. They know that the McCains and others are already on board with it. That if the Republicans were to elect a moderate Republican like McCain or Romney, he would accept it much as Ike accepted the New Deal in 1953.Right now their aim is to help their Republican allies regain full control of the congressional party.
“Just based on how the Obamacare exchange rollout is going, I’d say Obamacare has an excellent chance of stopping itself, without any assistance from Republicans. Combine gross gov’t incompetence with a defiance of personal economic behavior, and you have, to quote Democrat Sen. Max Baucus, a “train wreck”.”
The only problem is it will be dealt with by calls from the left for Single-Payer.
” I’d say Obamacare has an excellent chance of stopping itself”
Only health care services to the people will stop. The tax increases, insurance increases, loss of doctors, and increase of healthcare ‘administrators’ and bureaucracy will all continue regardless of how many people are covered. The bureaucracy will still get the power and the money and “oops, the system doesn’t work too well due to computer glitches and political opponents gumming the works.