Conservative Wonks Warn GOP: Obamacare Repeal Is Dangerous
SAHIL KAPUR – APRIL 1, 2014, 11:45 AM EDT2498
Conservative intellectuals are warning Republicans that their enduring push to repeal Obamacare could come back to haunt them.
As insurance sign-ups on the Obamacare exchanges surged past 6 million and neared 7 million at the closing of its first open enrollment period Monday night, some conservative policy wonks called on GOP lawmakers to accept that the dream of fully repealing the law had faded.
"[W]e do know that there won’t be an immediate political unraveling," wrote Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times. "And knowing that much has significant implications for our politics. It means that the kind of welfare-state embedding ... is taking place on a significant scale, that a large constituency will be served by Obamacare (through Medicaid as well as the exchanges) in 2016 and beyond, and that any kind of conservative alternative will have to confront the reality that the kind of tinkering-around-the-edges alternatives to Obamacare that many Republicans have supported to date would end up stripping coverage from millions of newly-insured Americans."
Conservative health care consultant Avik Roy argued in a blog post Saturday that the new enrollment statistics, limited as they are, suggest that there won't be a "death spiral" of rising costs and fewer insured, and that "there are enough healthy people who benefit from Obamacare's subsidy scheme that it won’t be a complete disaster on this front."
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but they hate Obama so so much they are willing to bleed.
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