Even Supporters Need To Realize That Obamacare Needs A Fundamental Fix

The administration has confirmed that the individual policies that were supposed to be cancelled because of Obamacare can now remain in force another two years. For months I have been saying millions of individual health insurance policies will be cancelled by year-end — most deferred until December because of the carriers’ early renewal programs and because of President Obama’s request the policies be extended in the states that have allowed it.

The administration, even today, as well as supporters of the new health law, have long downplayed the number of these “junk policy” cancellations as being insignificant. Apparently, these cancelled policies are good enough and their number large enough to make a difference come the November 2014 elections...

All of these delays are just tinkering around the edges of a law that is deeply flawed. The biggest flaw is that the product the Obama administration is trying to sell to onsumers is not the product people want to buy. Rejiggering deadlines until this thing is contorted like a pretzel is exactly the wrong thing to do. Obamacare needs a fundamental fix. I have to believe that even its most ardent supporters are coming to that realization...