Senate Democrats endangered for re-election will lead the charge for repeal perhaps as soon as January, after they get an earful over the Christmas break. They’ll call it “reform,” and clothe it in calls for delaying the individual mandate and allowing people and businesses to keep their existing health insurance policies. But it is probably too late to go back in many cases. With the political damage guaranteed to continue, the momentum toward repeal will be unstoppable. Democrats will not want to face the voters next November with the albatross of Obamacare.
The politics of the repeal effort will be a game theorist’s dream. Tea Party Republicans will resist “reforms” to Obamacare in favor of complete repeal. Democrats will try to turn the tables and set up Republicans as obstacles to reform, hoping to inoculate themselves prospectively from mayhem at the polls next November. The House might want to insist that the Senate go first; after all, it was the Senate version of the bill that the House had to swallow after Scott Brown’s election in January 2010. The House can rightly insist that the Senate needs to clean up the mess they made. Obama may well give Capitol Hill Democrats a pass on a repeal vote, and veto any bill that emerges. He’ll never face the voters again.
I told you guys that I have over 1000 people on my FB. I probably had to block only 5-6 libs and only one, since Oct 1 when all of this started. There are political articles and cartoons posted almost every few minutes, sometimes more. Then you see them fly by again when someone else reposts them. There are no favorable comments. People are going so far as to say...they arent buying anything. One person said..if they wont get rid of this..WE the people will and not buy. So people arent taking this laying down anymore. The public is totally pissed. Same goes for people commenting on articles elsewhere.
The thing is..many people will be forced to not buy. They just dont have enough money. With the high monthly premiums and deductables, you may as well have NO insurance. Most people wont even use the amount of medical care in one year, making it so the insurance never kicks in..unless they have to be in the hospital. And everyone knows how that goes. Somebody else pays.
I dont know what the end results will be..but what I do know..obamacare as it is now..will self destruct.