Obamacare Will Be Repealed Well In Advance Of The 2014 Elections
Steven Hayward,
Contributor
Prediction: even if HealthCare.gov is fixed by the end of the
month (unlikely), Obamacare is going to be repealed well in advance of next
year’s election. And if the website continues to fail, the push for repeal—from
endangered Democrats—will occur very rapidly. The website is a sideshow: the
real action is the number of people and businesses who are losing their health
plans or having to pay a lot more. Fixing the website will only delay the
inevitable.
It is important to remember why it
was so important for Obama to promise repeatedly that “if you like your health
insurance/doctor, you can keep your health insurance/doctor.” Cast your mind
back to the ignominious collapse of Hillarycare in 1994. Hillarycare came out
of the box in September 1993 to high public support according to the early
polls. This was not a surprise. Opinion polls for decades have shown a large
majority of Americans support the general idea of universal health coverage.
But Hillarycare came apart as the bureaucratic details came out, the most
important one being that you couldn’t be sure you’d be able to keep your doctors
or select specialists of your choice. The Clintons refused to consider a
compromise, but even with large Democratic Senate and House majorities the bill
was so dead it was never brought up for a vote.
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