Kevin Williamson: Obamacare Collapsed Without Republicans Dismantling It
RUSH: Kevin D. Williamson in National Review. Headline: "Obamacare is Dead -- Regardless of whether there is a President Cruz or a President Rubio in January 2017, regardless of the existence or size of a Republican majority in Congress, the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has failed. The grand vision of an efficient pseudo-market in health insurance under enlightened federal management -- the heart of Obamacare -- is not coming to pass. Obamacare, meaning the operating model that undergirded the law that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed with great fanfare -- is dead, and it will not be revived. What remains is fitful chaos."
Let me give you the pull quote. This is an opinion piece, but I'm gonna give you the pull quote. Kevin Williamson, National Review. "The fact is that Obamacare has fallen apart without the Republicans dismantling it." Now, folks, don't worry here. I understand. There is a contingent on the Republican side that does not want to repeal Obamacare, I understand. And there is a contingent, large contingent in the Republican Party that doesn't want to do the heavy lifting to get rid of it and they would much rather say it's gonna fail on its own, just let it, they've already said so. I realize. I just want to throw this out to you for your own consumption, see what you think about it.
"The fact is that Obamacare has fallen apart without Republicans’ dismantling it. Almost all of its basic promises have failed, it is an economic shambles, and it is a political mess: Unsurprisingly, people still don’t like it. Less than a third of Americans support the individual mandate, three-fourths oppose Obamacare’s tax on high-end health-care programs, and more voters oppose the law categorically than support it. A quarter of voters say the law has hurt them personally. The question isn’t why Republicans haven’t gotten around to repealing and replacing it -- the answer to that question resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a while, still -- the question is when Democrats will get around to admitting that, purity of their hearts notwithstanding, they and they alone -- not one Republican voted for Obamacare -- have created a mess that has introduced nothing to American health care except chaos."
But he's right, there aren't any Republican fingerprints on it. The danger in this piece is that we don't have to do anything. Obamacare's crumbling, it's falling apart on its own, and we don't have to do anything, just wait. No, no. It's an entitlement. It isn't just going to go away on its own, and if it's left alone, we're gonna end with chaos. It has to be actively taken apart and something done to replace it. But I don't disagree with the premise that it's imploding. But that never stopped liberalism. They're not gonna admit any of this. And the idea that the Democrats might someday admit that they and they alone created chaos. What are the odds we're ever gonna see that day?
The Democrats are never gonna admit it isn't working. It's gonna be just like every other federal program that's a botched mistake. They're gonna say we're the only ones that can fix it. They're gonna act like forces outside that they hadn't counted on screwed it up. They're never gonna admit that it's their mistake, and they certainly aren't gonna lay it off on Obama. That's just not the way they do things. They never admit they mess things up. It's always the Republicans that do. And the way this is gonna happen more than likely, well, Obamacare would be a much better place if these Republicans weren't trying to stop it every day. If the Republicans weren't trying to deny the poor health insurance, if the Republicans weren't standing in the way of the uninsured getting health insurance, we'd be doing very well here.
You know they're gonna try to lay this off on Republicans. They always do. And that's why the Republicans sit around and just wait and hope and pray this thing implodes to where it's obvious there isn't even a health care system in place. That day's never gonna happen. We already have federal entitlements operating that way. We have many government programs that are nothing but chaos, and nobody ever admits there's anything wrong with 'em, except when they do, they say, "Well, we're the ones to fix it because we didn't break it. Outside forces did."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426550/obamacare-failures
RUSH: Kevin D. Williamson in National Review. Headline: "Obamacare is Dead -- Regardless of whether there is a President Cruz or a President Rubio in January 2017, regardless of the existence or size of a Republican majority in Congress, the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has failed. The grand vision of an efficient pseudo-market in health insurance under enlightened federal management -- the heart of Obamacare -- is not coming to pass. Obamacare, meaning the operating model that undergirded the law that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed with great fanfare -- is dead, and it will not be revived. What remains is fitful chaos."
Let me give you the pull quote. This is an opinion piece, but I'm gonna give you the pull quote. Kevin Williamson, National Review. "The fact is that Obamacare has fallen apart without the Republicans dismantling it." Now, folks, don't worry here. I understand. There is a contingent on the Republican side that does not want to repeal Obamacare, I understand. And there is a contingent, large contingent in the Republican Party that doesn't want to do the heavy lifting to get rid of it and they would much rather say it's gonna fail on its own, just let it, they've already said so. I realize. I just want to throw this out to you for your own consumption, see what you think about it.
"The fact is that Obamacare has fallen apart without Republicans’ dismantling it. Almost all of its basic promises have failed, it is an economic shambles, and it is a political mess: Unsurprisingly, people still don’t like it. Less than a third of Americans support the individual mandate, three-fourths oppose Obamacare’s tax on high-end health-care programs, and more voters oppose the law categorically than support it. A quarter of voters say the law has hurt them personally. The question isn’t why Republicans haven’t gotten around to repealing and replacing it -- the answer to that question resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a while, still -- the question is when Democrats will get around to admitting that, purity of their hearts notwithstanding, they and they alone -- not one Republican voted for Obamacare -- have created a mess that has introduced nothing to American health care except chaos."
But he's right, there aren't any Republican fingerprints on it. The danger in this piece is that we don't have to do anything. Obamacare's crumbling, it's falling apart on its own, and we don't have to do anything, just wait. No, no. It's an entitlement. It isn't just going to go away on its own, and if it's left alone, we're gonna end with chaos. It has to be actively taken apart and something done to replace it. But I don't disagree with the premise that it's imploding. But that never stopped liberalism. They're not gonna admit any of this. And the idea that the Democrats might someday admit that they and they alone created chaos. What are the odds we're ever gonna see that day?
The Democrats are never gonna admit it isn't working. It's gonna be just like every other federal program that's a botched mistake. They're gonna say we're the only ones that can fix it. They're gonna act like forces outside that they hadn't counted on screwed it up. They're never gonna admit that it's their mistake, and they certainly aren't gonna lay it off on Obama. That's just not the way they do things. They never admit they mess things up. It's always the Republicans that do. And the way this is gonna happen more than likely, well, Obamacare would be a much better place if these Republicans weren't trying to stop it every day. If the Republicans weren't trying to deny the poor health insurance, if the Republicans weren't standing in the way of the uninsured getting health insurance, we'd be doing very well here.
You know they're gonna try to lay this off on Republicans. They always do. And that's why the Republicans sit around and just wait and hope and pray this thing implodes to where it's obvious there isn't even a health care system in place. That day's never gonna happen. We already have federal entitlements operating that way. We have many government programs that are nothing but chaos, and nobody ever admits there's anything wrong with 'em, except when they do, they say, "Well, we're the ones to fix it because we didn't break it. Outside forces did."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426550/obamacare-failures