—>shocked face<—
(Time) Let me try to understand this: The key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care super-stores—called exchanges. The Administration has had 3 years to set up these exchanges. It has failed to do so.
This is a really bad sign. There will be those who argue that it’s not the Administration’s fault. It’s the fault of the 33 states that have refused to set up their own exchanges. Nonsense. Where was the contingency planning? There certainly are models, after all—the federal government’s own health benefits plan (FEHBP) operates markets that exist in all 50 states. So does Medicare Advantage. But now, the Obama Administration has announced that it won’t have the exchanges ready in time, that small businesses will be offered one choice for the time being—for a year, at least. No doubt, small business owners will be skeptical of the Obama Administration’s belief in the efficacy of the market system to produce lower prices through competition. That was supposed to be the point of this plan.
Certainly, the Republicans who have stood in the way of these exchanges—their own idea, by the way, born in the conservative Heritage Foundation—deserve a great deal of the “credit†for the debacle. But we are now seeing weekly examples of this Administration’s inability to govern.
Tell us something we don’t know. Obama has failed to govern during his 4+ years in office. He really hasn’t bothered. It’s been one long neverending campaign. We have a 2000+ page piece of legislation that was still extremely open ended, resulting (so far) in over 20,000 pages of regulations. When writing Obamacare no one sat back and said “so, um, how will this be implemented? Can it be?” Nor did anyone ask “can the Obama administration actually get it done with Obama at the helm? The guy has little clue as to getting anything other than campaigning done. Look at the economy, for one.”
