Another Day, Another Obamacare Exemption

A few days ago, Obama announced another exemption to Obamacare. Earlier this week, the administration announced that some of the people who had their plans cancelled can apply for a "hardship exemption" and purchase only catastrophic coverage for one year. How exactly does this help anyone?  It's only for one year, and then these people are out of luck and have to buy an expensive plan they don't want. It's no different than when Obama tried to backpedal once he got caught in the lie of "if you like your plan you can keep it".  His solution to stem the outrage was to tell Americans they could keep their plan for one more year. Just one problem, Mr. President, the insurance companies have spent 3 years preparing policies to meet all your requirements- you know they can't reinstate millions of plans at the last minute. All this, including this latest exemption, is a distraction in hopes that Americans forget this debacle when midterm elections rolls around next November.

Meanwhile, Congressional democrats continue to run away from Obamacare in droves. Senator Manchin from West Virginia is worried that Obamacare could suffer a "complete meltdown" and collapse under its own weight from rising costs and public outrage. Wow Senator, you are just now figuring this out?  Isn't this what your republican colleagues told you during the debate over the bill?  Three years ago, this was a great law and was going to bring healthcare costs down, but now that the proof is in the pudding you want to distance yourself from it?  Are he and his colleagues now asking Obama to delay parts of the law, including the individual mandate, for a year?  Didn't they attack republicans at every turn in September when they wanted to include a delay as part of the bill to fund the government?   They were warned by republicans that this would happen, and yet they absolutely refused to compromise on any aspect of Obamacare.  This bill passed without a single republican vote, and they own every single part of this debacle. They have no one to blame but themselves, and Americans need to remember this on November 4, 2014. Will we let them get away with the smoke and mirror tactic of one year delays?  Will we let them continue to insult our intelligence with their back pedaling?  Will we continue to let them get away with shoving a law we didn't want down our throats based on false promises and lies?  For the sake of the future of healthcare in this country, I certainly hope not.