Obamacare Soap Update

Erick cries It's a trap! while Josh finds himself shocked to admit that Erick, of all people!, understands this--this being, in part, that Republicans are "endorsing the bizarre idea that health reform should not lead to health plan changes"--just as Mike in the lower chamber is enchanted with the idea of supporting what he himself labels a terrible bill, but for heaven's sake he needs something "to vote for," no matter how dumb, "in order to keep our word to the American people," however Mary says Mike's terribleness will "gut" Obamacare, while her bill, which she insists is meant not to undermine but to strengthen Obamacare, would in reality more egregiously undermine it, which Jay, for utterly incomprehensible reasons, says "shares a similar goal to what the president has asked his team to explore"; meanwhile Ezra draws a long syringe of Ativan. 

Thus our political epic crawls to an uncertain close, more Swiftian or Waugh-like than Homeric, with a touch of Wilde: To lose one house may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The supremest irony? Charles Krauthammer may actually have been right about something after all, though of course not, like Erick Erickson, for the reasons he imagined. 

 

Comments

[AnneJ]

Who is John Brabenender? Whoever he is, I just heard him shouting about what a disaster Obamacare is on MSNBC. I guess he figures if he shouts loud enough that makes him right?

[Peter G]

Obviously you have read The Importance Of At Least Looking Ernest.

[Peter G]

How about some soothing words to ease a troubled mind. Someone posted somewhere that the idea that one could keep their health care plan under ACA was never a realistic possibility but it helped sell ACA. That person was right. But that was not the only thing about implementing ACA that was founded in bullshit. The idea that healthy young bucks and buckettes would hasten to sign up to dispose of a largish chunk of their disposable income was even more unrealistic. As I have previously noted, you can't hardly get them to vote and that costs almost nothing. I never expected that to happen and I still don't. What I expect will happen is that a lot of businesses burdened with ever rising health care costs will find a way to unload these costs. Particularly among the many many businesses that do not meet the employment thresholds that require they offer health care insurance. And those employees and their families both need and want healthcare insurance. They will provide the pool of purchasers that will make the insurance exchanges viable and necessary. Not young immortals.