So here’s my guess: Price refuses to clarify, and the administration asks for another delay in the case. Insurance companies submit pricing plans based on the assumption that the payments won’t be continued because prudence. Then the administration turns around and says that the ACA is imploding and that the price increases mean the insurance companies no longer need the subsidies.
And people in red states get hit hardest, except for all the ones who already had no coverage because they’ve been falling between the unexpanded medicaid limit and the exchange lower bound.
Tierney Sneed is the best. I see a Pulitzer in her future. Hope TPM can keep her. The Washington Post probably wants her.
Price: I’m a little busy dealing with insider trading and abuse of office allegations. Could you come back later?
And the MSM will fail to make the cause and effect connection between the GOP sabotage of both the risk corridors (Rubio) and the cost sharing subsidies (GOP lawsuit) and the insurers leaving the ACA thereby implicitly endorsing the GOP position about the failure of the ACA.
Perfect. This is more of the continuing BS that is the Trump Administration. "Don’t worry. We won’t screw you.’ and then further down the road ‘OF COURSE, we’re gonna screw you. You need to take 1/10th on the dollar for have the great good luck of serving our lame-ass health program!’…I’m sure happy and reassured that we are running the country JUST LIKE a corporation!
Trump and Price are under the impression that people will blame Obama for the collapse of the exchanges…maybe they will, but they are mistaken if they thing that they will not be blamed for just sitting in their hands and cheering the collapse, as they have been doing so far. I will be more of a Katrina moment.
I hope you’re right. Democrats and the rest of us need to get ahead of this and start messaging now.
They’re not going to repeal the ACA. They’re just going to drag it out back and stomp it to death.