Monday, October 28, 2013

The GOP is losing the glitch fight

What does the title mean?  Simply put, the GOP thinks the glitches are helping them politically.

But that is wrong.  The reason it is wrong is that the health insurance industry is being destroyed.  This will usher in single payer.

The thing to have done was to defund ObamaCare.  This removes the threat to the insurance industry.  But they took counsel of their fears and backed down.  They probably think with all this trouble with the glitches, that they will prevail.   This assumption underlies their strategy, but what about that strategy?  Will it work?

Nope.  We will get single payer because ObamaCare will have succeeded in destroying the free market in health care.  Their failure to stand firm is helping Obama do that.  By not standing firm, we will get single payer.

There would have been risks if they stood firm against Obama, but there also risks in doing nothing.  Unfortunately for us, we are going to start to see more and more of what those risks actually were because of their decision to do nothing.


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