Why do Republicans want a 1-yr delay of the health insurance mandate? The simple math [View all]
On this weekend's "McLaughlin Group". embattled lone progressive Eleanor Clift explains very clearly the simple math absent from an avalanch of "reporting" about Boehner's ransom for re-opening government.
Clift pointed out that people with pre-existing conditions who've been shut out of healthcare for years will sign up ASAP. The mandate is designed to make covering sick people financially feasible by giving young and healthy people incentives to sign up too. A one-year delay of the mandate would prevent health insurance premium revenue from surging along with outflows to care for the newly-covered sick.
Then Republicans would saturate the media in the months before the 2014 elections with one message: "Obamacare is a failure" becuase it has raised premiums for everybody!
Have you seen this argument anyplace else? In big media? I have not, but I have not been listening as hard as many of my fellow DUers may have.
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