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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Failure Of Failures

Could Obamacare end up as America’s worst domestic-policy disaster ever?

Indulge me if you will, and join me in imagining that Obamacare has taken the calamitous path of the Hindenburg and ended up as little more than a smoldering warning against hubris. Imagine, that is, that enrollment rates have remained dangerously low; that the risk pools consist largely of the elderly and the sick; that the insurance companies, unable to operate on the magical thinking of which the White House is so fond, are being forced either to get out of the market completely or to raise premiums dramatically; and that skittish Democrats have started to run away — first calling weakly for fixes, then hinting at more, and then barely resisting the temptation to follow the trail of the pitchforks and nullify the president’s signature achievement. Imagine, in other words, that things are bad.

Now answer me this: If such a scenario were actually to come to pass — and, of course, it most certainly has not as of yet — how serious a failure will we judge it to be? Will we see it as a hiccup? Will we claim that it is typical for a second term? Or will we consider it to be a calamity of historical proportions? Personally, I would plump for the lattermost: In my view, if Obamacare were to fail hard, it could well come to be seen as the most catastrophic domestic-policy enterprise of the last century.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why would you expect anything better?

Anonymous said...

We a early into this century, there is plenty of time for the idiots to do worse.

Anonymous said...

Well, the poor can't afford it,(47%) and the TEA Party would rather pay the fine, and the rest of the GOP will make some sort of play, especially the young and healthy to not buy in and dare to pay the fine. Then there's those working for cash who really own nothing to confiscate or fine.

So, maybe 20 % at best will have some sort of insurance!

I say it goes bust!