What’s The Worst Case Scenario For Obamacare?

Heartland.org ^ | October 16, 2013 | by Benjamin Domenech

[11th_VA]

...if this is as big of a failure as it looks like at the moment, and the problems are not fixed within the next two months, the Obamacare project could end up backfiring in a way that could have dramatic effects on politics and policy going forward. It will contribute to distrust in government’s basic capability. It will fail to live up to its promise, and wreck the insurance markets for no good purpose. It will represent the administration betraying its strongest supporters. And it may ultimately leave President Obama wishing John Roberts had ruled the other way

[Proud2BeRight]

Obamacare IS the worse case scenario.

[luvbach1]

It imposes a 29 1/2 hour work week, what do you think that will do to America?

It will be the turd-worlding of America and 0bumble will have achieved his goal.

[EEGator]

Cats and dogs living together...pretty much all the worst parts from the Bible.

[tanknetter]

Single payer only happens if a convincing argument can be made that the private sector/corporatist option failed.

Healthcare.gov is simply collapsing too fast to pin the blame on the healthcare industry. Obama and the Dems OWN it. Come next year they’re going to be begging for the very delay the Republicans lost trying to bring about.

[Vermont Lt]

First of all, it’s not a healthcare bill. It’s an insurance program.

When all of these people get insurance, where do you think they are going to go for care? There are no doctors. And they will be camping out at the Community Hospital ERs. They will not pay their co pays or deductibles. Hospitals will have to eat that.

Community hospitals will shut down because of increased cost and less income.

That’s just the medical side.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Come next year they’re going to be begging for the very delay the Republicans lost trying to bring about.

Let me modify that. They won't beg for any delay, they'll simply change the law to suit them and delay it themselves.

[Colonel_Flagg]

It will fail to live up to its promise, and wreck the insurance markets for no good purpose.

There's a good purpose for wrecking private insurance markets? Really?

[Baldwin77]

Make no mistake, the congressional “fix” will be single payer.

This was all planned.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

As MANDATORY, 0bamacare website will register MILLIONS of illegal-aliens-turned-U.S.-citizens to the DEMOCRAT party.

[Slyfox]

"Fundamentally transforming" both medical insurance AND education, Obama is "fundamentally transforming" us all into slaves.

The devil has a keen wit by getting a protected negro to do the enslaving.

[Rapscallion]

Do nothing.
Refuse to negotiate.
After the names good people have been called by Obama.
After Reid’s insults to the other party.
After the libel against the Tea Party.
After the disrespect shown to military families.
After the disrespect leveled at veterans.
After the accusations against the Catholics and their church.....
and on and on
I would not lift a finger to save the dirty democrat progressive socialists that have brought this to the people. Nothing.

[6ppc]

He won’t ask. He will just do it and nobody in Congress will stop him.

I don't believe HE will do anything. He is incapable of making a decision and will continue to fiddle in denial while healthcare burns.

I'll bet a bottle of good liquor (your/my choice) that the exchanges will still not be working March 31, 2014. I've seen software project meltdowns before, and this one is a doozie! They are going to have to trash the whole thing and redesign/rewrite from scratch.

[fatnotlazy]

You underestimate the libs and their media accomplices. Already, the message is that any problems are the fault of those greedy insurance companies, and that the only fix is for the government to take over. As more and more low information voters find out how expensive this “free” healthcare is going to be under Obamacare, they will be easily induced to pressure lawmakers for government-run healthcare.

[whattajoke]

There's a good purpose for wrecking private insurance markets?

Private insurance companies wrote most of the bill. It boggles my mind how so many people fail to accept that. Let's peek at their stock prices today (I know, Wall Street perception isn't "proof," but it's quick and dirty for now.)

Aetna
United Healthcare
Cigna
Humana

On and on. It's like this every day. Is there risk? Sure there is, but it was a calculated risk by the insurance companies all along and it has been, thus far, pretty damn good for them. They sure as hell don't want single payer, and since they are the top lobbyists in Washington (#1 or #2 anyway), I can't see that happening anytime soon.

[Colonel_Flagg]

In general, I still prefer free markets to government control.

[lepton]

“will still not be working March 31, 2014. I’ve seen software project meltdowns before, and this one is a doozie! They are going to have to trash the whole thing and redesign/rewrite from scratch. “

And are you certain this can’t be written from scratch in that time?

[whattajoke]

Well, sure. And they prefer artificial “forced” markets above all.

And let’s be honest here, we have no “free market” for health CARE at all - and that would be quite difficult to create/maintain. And really, that’s the crux of the cost issue.

[Leep]

What happens if you refuse to go along?

[Billthedrill]

What happens if you refuse to go along?

The IRS dings you and not only do you owe the government money, but you don't have any healthcare coverage. Cute system.