You are wayyyyyyy too optimistic for the Democrats. Not a one of them running for re-election in the midterms wants anything to do with this gigantic snafu, and they sure don’t want to keep it in the news during the election cycle by Congress tinkering with it. And after the midterms, the ‘16 presidential race gets going. Republicans — even RINOs — don’t want to fix this, they want the chance to run against it. It’s like the greatest gift a political opposition ever had.
This colossal failure has no friends at all.
This will trigger violence. Imagine a father who has insurance for his kid with cancer. ACA comes along and compels the insurance company to cancel policy. Father is desperate because he is under the gun to replace the policy. If the gov is not ready with a replacement policy that he can afford or worst Congress does not come up with a solution as ACA implodes, that father is really out of luck. If his kid dies because of all this bullshit, imagine the father’s anger and what he will do to the ones responsible. When people lose everything they lose it.
My point is that the “fix” will be to, as McCain says, “replace it with something else”. That something else will keep the Federal government firmly in charge of the relationship between insurers and clients. Previously, this had been the purview of the states. That is the ONLY change required to guarantee that the Feds will be able to totally control health care some time into the future.
Previously, the only say the Feds had on health care was the amounts that they were willing to reimburse providers for those under Federal coverage. They used this big stick for years to transfer costs to the private insurance policies. That was one of the factors that crippled the health care industry in the first place.