Republicans’ new anti-Obamacare tactic: Class war

[DonViejo]

Now that it seems Healthcare.gov will be fixed soon, the new anti-Obamacare plan pits young males vs seniors, sick

BY BRIAN BEUTLER

Get this: Late last week the government announced that its online health insurance marketplace — an e-commerce portal for millions of uninsured people in 36 states — would soon be working, and some people were very upset about it.

You read that right. There are actually a lot of people working in politics who want the technical problems that have plagued these marketplaces to persist, so that uninsured people remain unable to purchase coverage.

And here’s a modest prediction: If the marketplaces don’t begin work by about the end of November, these same people will pretend to be extremely concerned for the well-being of the marketplace’s intended consumers, but they’ll actually be extremely pleased that those consumers will be locked out of it.

The right’s reaction to Healthcare.gov’s troubled rollout, and now to the prospect that it will be fixed before it becomes an existential liability to the Affordable Care Act writ large reveals much more than the fact that conservatives really, really hate Obamacare.

The prospect that Healthcare.gov might be unfixable wouldn’t have been so exciting to conservatives if the people who are meant to make use of it weren’t interested. Or to put it another way, conservatives salivated over the thought that Healthcare.gov was beyond repair because they know that everything else will fall into place once it’s fixed. The markets will scale up. The uninsured young, whose participation is required to create a sustainable actuarial balance, will be able to enroll easily. People will buy the insurance.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/republicans_new_anti_obamacare_tactic_class_war/

[rickford66]

1. GOP will take credit when it's working.

Of course without their "investigations" the ACA would never be working, so they will brand it "Modified Romneycare".

[TwilightGardener]

2. Well, Ezra Klein keeps telling me it's the worst debacle in history, will end liberalism as we

know it, so...who to believe?