Monday, December 2, 2013

This is going to be fun

Ezra Klein writes:

    There are the insurance cancellations, of course, but there also [are] going to be people who happily buy new insurance only to find their doctor isn't covered, and there will be people who end up paying higher premiums in the new market, and there will be employers who raise deductibles to keep from paying the 2018 tax on high-value insurance plans, and so on.

    Unlike HealthCare.gov's technical problems, most of these issues will be part of the law working as it's supposed to work rather than the law failing to work as it's supposed to work. ... Obamacare is now moving from unexpected problems that threaten the law to predictable disruptions that are, in many cases, intended by the law. And the Obama administration will have three full years to create millions, and perhaps tens of millions, of winners who are getting insurance or protection through the law.

Seriously, Ezra?

I am going to love watching Democrats run on the argument "the cancellations, reduced networks, higher premiums, and increased deductibles that you are experiencing in your health insurance are how Obamacare, brought to you exclusively by Democrats, is supposed to work."

As for the tens of millions of winners from Obamacare, most of them already voted for Obama and the Democrats the last time around. The problem is going to be the tens of millions of losers from Obamacare, the predominantly young, middle-class or affluent, healthy, and well-educated voters, many of them independents, who cast their ballots for Obama and the Democrats before, but will abandon ship once they realize that they are footing the bill for all the winners.

Yes, watching Democrats run on Obamacare is going to be fun.

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