Will Obamacare get its act together in time?

[Guynemer]

Precisely my point. Even when things get fixed (and I think they will, eventually), it'll be too late to help the Dems politically.

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[Patroklos]

When the fix this it's time for the employer mandate to blow up.

[regexcellent]

They'll delay it another year, and another year, and another year.

[Sava]

At this point, we've just got to wait and see what happens in 2014 and 2016.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

I realized last night that the silver lining to this whole debacle is that Guy is going to start getting late night phone calls from anguished parents who found out he's no longer part of their insurance network. We need more spiteful rants on Poly, and Obamacare is going to deliver.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Some of Obamacare’s most damaging political narratives will be getting a fresh look right before next year’s midterms, thanks to delays in the law’s implementation.

Canceled insurance plans are the most obvious example. President Obama said last week that insurers can un-cancel certain policies for another year, a move largely designed to appease nervous Democrats. But a one-year delay simply means that cancellation notices will resume next October—just weeks before many of those same Democrats will face voters for the first time since voting to pass the Affordable Care Act.

And that’s not the only political threat lurking just ahead of the 2014 midterms. The White House also delayed the law’s employer mandate until 2015. That means employers will be deciding in mid- to late 2014 whether they’re going to offer health benefits under the mandate—and whether to cut employees’ hours to avoid providing them with health care.

Obamacare Delays May Create Election Bomb for Democrats

[Guynemer]

I realized last night that the silver lining to this whole debacle is that Guy is going to start getting late night phone calls from anguished parents who found out he's no longer part of their insurance network. We need more spiteful rants on Poly, and Obamacare is going to deliver.

Alas, we take pretty much everything, and most of my patients are Medicaid anyway.

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Damn. So much for more tasty rage.

[Dinner]

Choo! Choo! All aboard!

[MrFun]

Alas, we take pretty much everything, and most of my patients are Medicaid anyway.

A doctor who is human, with a heart.

[DinoDoc]

Tick, tock.

“The president and his team have repeatedly assured us that the system will be working by Dec. 1. That’s when I start looking at what we have to do in our oversight function to hold the administration accountable for making it work.” Rep. Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democrat who is running for an open Senate seat said Thursday, adding that he’s contemplating whether to ask the president to fire members of his staff. “I’m thinking about those options. But my biggest concern is fixing the system and making it work.”…

[A] big-city lawmaker predicted oversight hearings are “going to be ugly” come next month. “The more we find out about this implementation of the ACA, the worse it looks. The Congress did our job. We passed the ACA. It’s up to the administration to implement the law.”…

“At this point, I don’t think there is anyone that would express any confidence in the administration’s ability to right the ship,” said [a House Democratic] source, adding that members seem to be “bracing for another tidal wave when Dec. 1 comes and goes and we are still dealing with a dysfunctional website, or ‘broken computer’ as the old-timers have been calling it.”…

One Democratic House member, asked by text message whether he was worried that there didn’t seem to be a Plan B at the White House, wrote back, “Yes!!!”

As deadline nears, ticking clock on Democratic patience

[rah]

I’m thinking about those options. But my biggest concern is fixing the system and making it work

Yeah, right, I'm sure his biggest concern is saying whatever is necessary to get reelected.