Saturday, December 21, 2013

The problem with suicide bombers is when they blow themselves up in your home--------- Obamacare Initiates Self-Destruction Sequence

Obamacare Initiates Self-Destruction Sequence - Bloomberg:
Arnold Kling put it more pithily: “Obama Repeals Obamacare.”
I’d ask this: 
What do you do for an encore? 
Will the administration force these folks to buy insurance next year? 
Or will they keep allowing special exceptions rather than take the political heat for changing health insurance that people liked?
I’m not sure the administration is thinking that far ahead. 
The White House is focused on winning the news cycle, day by day, not the kind of detached technocratic policymaking that they, and the law’s other supporters, hoped this law would embody. 
Does your fix create problems later, cause costs to spiral or people to drop out of the insurance market, or lead to political pressure to expand the fixes in ways that critically undermine the law? 
Well, that’s preferable to sudden death right now.

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