How long until the president gives in to the increasing number in his own party now calling for a delay of ObamaCare?
Right now the White House is continuing with the pretense that the problem is a buggy Web site and a “misunderstanding” of an Obama promise. Smarter folks realize the real problem is the whole megillah is unworkable.
That’s why Democrats who refused every ObamaCare compromise during the government shutdown now pray for delay or propose CYA fixes, as Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is doing with the “Keeping the Promise Act” to stop people from getting insurance cancellations. That may help politically, but at the price of adding a new carve-out to a law collapsing from them.
All this leaves the White House with an unappetizing choice: Agree to a delay and risk its signature legislation never becoming operable, or agree to the only fixes that will improve things — à la Paul Ryan — which themselves undermine ObamaCare’s most fundamental assumptions.
Wonder why Washington is making this repair from the back end? This is what comes from accepting the Nancy Pelosi logic of passing a law before you find out what’s in it.