(CNSNews.com) - Obamacare's first open enrollment period technically has ended, but efforts to improve the Affordable Care Act and the entire health care system aren't over -- and Republicans eventually will join the effort to fix things, says former White House health adviser Ezekiel Emanuel.
"This is bipartisan once we get past the election, or whenever the Republicans are going to say all right, we're going to move off health care and onto something else."
Emanuel spoke with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Monday night, both of them jubilant over the final surge of healthcare.gov applications, which reportedly will bring the total open-enrollment number to around 7 million, higher than many people expected.
"If you don't have enough people in the system, it will collapse of its own weight, and other exchanges and other places did collapse," Emanuel said. "And you know, fortunately, the 7 million...will be reached by the end here pretty comfortably -- and I think that shows it's been a major -- there's really pent-up demand. People really want insurance, and they want affordable insurance, and when offered that possibility, they will come out of the woodwork.
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Please repeal it!
ReplyDeleteAfter the next batch of folks get their current policies cancelled and the renewal costs go through the roof it will be bipartisan to flush Nancy's "pass it to see what's in it" stool sample.
ReplyDeleteThat is, until they find out there is a $5000 deductible.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the 30 million that were so desperate to get health insurance we had to have the ACA in the first place?
ReplyDelete6:59 - they refuse to sign up because it is too expensive....or they're too healthy to need it in their own minds.
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