Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Everything Republicans said about Obamacare has come true. Now, even the cheerleaders realize it.
“We did not believe it would form this slowly, be this porous, or become this severe,” he added.
Translated: “porous” means “the Obamacare net caught only sick people because the healthy ones were allowed to wriggle out through various Executive Orders.”
Further translated: “Obama lied to us; he promised we could base premiums on a mix of young healthy people with old sick ones, then he threw us under the bus by letting the young healthy people out to save his re-election.”
Still further translated: “I believed Obama. I was an idiot.”
Yep. Republicans knew it six years ago. Glad we could clear that up.
Joe Doakes
Being right is fun.
Being right after a good chunk of our economy and healthcare system has been botched like a Salvadoran tummy-tuck? Not so fun.
I’ve pointed this out to some of my Lefty friends and relatives on social media. These are ‘teh’ smart people, so they either knew all along that paying claims and getting premium from sick people only wouldn’t work or hoped, covertly or overtly, that the ACA’s inevitable failure would lead to a Nationalized Healthcare Scheme. Of course since they are ‘teh’ smart people, they believe that they personally would have no worries with Nationalized Health Care (it’s lack of timely treatment; centralized, VA like care planning; and, well, death panels) as they have contacts in the connected industries of healthcare/insurance/government (who knew a stint volunteering for Dukakis would create such a strong bond?) that would give them preferential treatment that others wouldn’t get, specifically we Rethuglicans, because… reasons.
Any “I told you so” is met with: “OK, so we’ll need you to provide a complete new plan with ten-twenty-fifty year cost projections and a 200% improvement over the pre-ACA situation before we’ll listen to you, Wingnut.” We’re screwed.
Personally, I don’t believe for a second that UHC’s actuaries didn’t warn about this. Not. For. One. Second. I’m thinking that the far more likely scenario is that someone suggested that it would be very bad for their business if they didn’t. Someone, I’d have to guess, with strong ties to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.