Posted on 12/22/2013 10:40:06 AM PST by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could have a "meltdown" and make it difficult for his Democratic Party to keep control of the U.S. Senate next year if ongoing problems with the program are not resolved, a Democratic senator said on Sunday.
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who has urged delaying a penalty for people who do not enroll for health insurance in 2014 under the law, told CNN that a transitional year was needed for the complex healthcare program, commonly known as Obamacare, to work.
"If it's so much more expensive than what we anticipated and if the coverage is not as good as what we had, you've got a complete meltdown at that time," Manchin told CNN's "State of the Union" program.
"It falls of its own weight, if basically the cost becomes more than we can absorb, absolutely."
The White House has been scrambling for months to control the damage from the botched October 1 launch of the law, formally called the Affordable Care Act, which aimed at making sure that millions of Americans without health insurance are able to receive medical coverage.
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RAT senator says Obamacare could...might...WILL have 'meltdown,' hurt party
Manchin sees the problem, but wants to delay it, which is just kicking the can down the road. Trust me, Obamacare ain't gonna get any cheaper.
The correct response would be to kill it.
Start at the 3:30 mark....
Hurt the Party. Not the American people. The Party.
More likely he’d be the J Fred Boggs of our times.
Headline: “Democratic senator says Obamacare could have ‘meltdown,’ hurt party”
I laugh, and say DUH!
Funny to watch Manchin scrambling to get back his conservative bonanza fides
Didn’t say our times were good. Harry S Truman was kind of a “J. Fred Muggs”. (not to be confused with Hale Boggs)
Notice that “hurt party” is his real concern here.
Please notice he is worried about how an ObamaCare meltdown will affect the Democratic Party. He hasn’t voiced any worry about how it will affect the nation just the Democratic party’s control of the Federal government.
Currently two out of three representatives are Republican. One, Capito, has announced for Rockefeller’s Senate seat. And, the one Democrat rep ain’t looking so good.
Of course Manchin voted for the monstrosity.
The Democrats acted as Doctor Frankenstein and created a monster. Manchin is asking to keep the monster caged for a little while longer. The most reasonable solution is to end this vile experiment and refrain from further “research”.
“Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who has urged delaying a penalty for people who do not enroll for health insurance in 2014 under the law, told CNN that a transitional year was needed for the complex healthcare program.”
TRNASLATION:
Put this catastgrophe off until AFTER the Mid-Terms!!!
I’m sure some RINOs will go along with this.
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