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HHS maintains theyll have these [Exchanges] up and running by October 2013. I dont know anyone who is confident about that and Im ready to predict that they will not. Michael F. Cannon, December 2012
In my opinion, whats going to happen is utter chaos. Cato Institute senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, February 2013
My December 2012 prediction that ObamaCares health insurance exchanges would not be ready on time proved true by July 2013, when President Obama unilaterally delayed the laws employer mandate for a year. It proved painfully, obviously true when the Exchanges crashed upon takeoff on October 1, just as ObamaCare was throwing millions out of their current health plans.
My colleague Jagadeesh Gokhales February 2013 prediction of utter chaos (audio here, at 48: 25) arguably proved true in October, and is now evident in President Obamas decision to exempt from the individual mandate those millions whose plans Obama himself cancelled.
This categorical exemption is a bigger deal than it seems. With it, President Obama has admitted ObamaCare will strip many people of their health insurance and leave them with gaps in coverage, or no affordable coverage options at all. It is an implicit admission that ObamaCare has created economic peril for millions of Americans and political peril for Democrats.
Things werent exactly going well for ObamaCare anyway. There has been no shortage of votes to repeal the entire law, at least not in the House of Representatives.
President Obama has signed into law bipartisan bills repealing one of ObamaCares three new entitlement programs; gutting its Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program; cutting spending on the laws Prevention and Public Health Fund; repealing its 1099″ reporting requirement (a new tax); twice increasing the amounts that recipients of Exchange subsidies must repay if they incorrectly projected their future income; repealing the laws free choice voucher program; and rescinding some funding for the laws Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Obama had unlimited authority to throw money at states to encourage them to create Exchanges. Still, 34 states refused. He raided nearly half a billion dollars from Prevention and Public Health Fund in order to fund federal Exchanges in those states. Still, the federal Exchanges were a disaster. ObamaCare lost before the Supreme Court, which ruled the law must hold harmless states that refuse to implement ObamaCares Medicaid expansion; 25 states have since refused. (To get those states to enact at least part of the expansion, President Obama is coercing them in direct contravention of the Courts ruling.) Obama unilaterally delayed for one year the employer mandate; multiple anti-fraud provisions; a requirement that small businesses offer their workers a choice of plans through SHOP Exchanges; online enrollment through SHOP Exchanges; and limits on cost-sharing in employer plans.
In his most egregious attempt to save the law by unilaterally rewriting it, Obama is trying to impose a $700 billion tax burden on the American people that Congress never authorized. Citing difficulties with the laws web sites, Obama has repeatedly pushed back deadlines for acquiring coverage that will take effect on January 1, and for satisfying the individual mandate. He pushed back the start of the open enrollment period for coverage in 2015 until after the congressional elections in early November 2014. Obama even offered to let some people whose coverage had been cancelled restore those old health plans, despite the fact that they are actually illegal under federal law. Obamas repeated assurances that if you like your health plan, you can keep it, that you can keep your doctor, and that premiums would fall, are widely recognized not just as untrue, but as lies.
ObamaCares popularity rating hit a new low in December 2013, with Americans opposing it by nearly a 2-to-1 ratio. It has lost the support of women (60-35 percent opposed) and the uninsured (50-24 percent say its a bad idea) . Even when the presidents responses to ObamaCares inadequacies are not illegal, they tend to destabilize the law further or increase its cost.
ALL of it here
As Predicted, ObamaCare Plunges Into 'Utter Chaos' - Forbes
SNIP:
HHS maintains theyll have these [Exchanges] up and running by October 2013. I dont know anyone who is confident about that and Im ready to predict that they will not. Michael F. Cannon, December 2012
In my opinion, whats going to happen is utter chaos. Cato Institute senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, February 2013
My December 2012 prediction that ObamaCares health insurance exchanges would not be ready on time proved true by July 2013, when President Obama unilaterally delayed the laws employer mandate for a year. It proved painfully, obviously true when the Exchanges crashed upon takeoff on October 1, just as ObamaCare was throwing millions out of their current health plans.
My colleague Jagadeesh Gokhales February 2013 prediction of utter chaos (audio here, at 48: 25) arguably proved true in October, and is now evident in President Obamas decision to exempt from the individual mandate those millions whose plans Obama himself cancelled.
This categorical exemption is a bigger deal than it seems. With it, President Obama has admitted ObamaCare will strip many people of their health insurance and leave them with gaps in coverage, or no affordable coverage options at all. It is an implicit admission that ObamaCare has created economic peril for millions of Americans and political peril for Democrats.
Things werent exactly going well for ObamaCare anyway. There has been no shortage of votes to repeal the entire law, at least not in the House of Representatives.
President Obama has signed into law bipartisan bills repealing one of ObamaCares three new entitlement programs; gutting its Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program; cutting spending on the laws Prevention and Public Health Fund; repealing its 1099″ reporting requirement (a new tax); twice increasing the amounts that recipients of Exchange subsidies must repay if they incorrectly projected their future income; repealing the laws free choice voucher program; and rescinding some funding for the laws Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Obama had unlimited authority to throw money at states to encourage them to create Exchanges. Still, 34 states refused. He raided nearly half a billion dollars from Prevention and Public Health Fund in order to fund federal Exchanges in those states. Still, the federal Exchanges were a disaster. ObamaCare lost before the Supreme Court, which ruled the law must hold harmless states that refuse to implement ObamaCares Medicaid expansion; 25 states have since refused. (To get those states to enact at least part of the expansion, President Obama is coercing them in direct contravention of the Courts ruling.) Obama unilaterally delayed for one year the employer mandate; multiple anti-fraud provisions; a requirement that small businesses offer their workers a choice of plans through SHOP Exchanges; online enrollment through SHOP Exchanges; and limits on cost-sharing in employer plans.
In his most egregious attempt to save the law by unilaterally rewriting it, Obama is trying to impose a $700 billion tax burden on the American people that Congress never authorized. Citing difficulties with the laws web sites, Obama has repeatedly pushed back deadlines for acquiring coverage that will take effect on January 1, and for satisfying the individual mandate. He pushed back the start of the open enrollment period for coverage in 2015 until after the congressional elections in early November 2014. Obama even offered to let some people whose coverage had been cancelled restore those old health plans, despite the fact that they are actually illegal under federal law. Obamas repeated assurances that if you like your health plan, you can keep it, that you can keep your doctor, and that premiums would fall, are widely recognized not just as untrue, but as lies.
ObamaCares popularity rating hit a new low in December 2013, with Americans opposing it by nearly a 2-to-1 ratio. It has lost the support of women (60-35 percent opposed) and the uninsured (50-24 percent say its a bad idea) . Even when the presidents responses to ObamaCares inadequacies are not illegal, they tend to destabilize the law further or increase its cost.
ALL of it here
As Predicted, ObamaCare Plunges Into 'Utter Chaos' - Forbes
