Rob's piece yesterday provided a look - both amusing and infuriating - at how the New York Times is serving as one of the last holdouts in trying to cover for the Obama Administration on the ObamaCare fiasco. Dan's piece this morning demonstrates that the Times is in an increasingly lonely space, as even reliably liberal CBS News no longer has a strong enough stomach to swallow and spew the lies, and is actually doing some fine reporting about the incompetence, arrogance and dishonesty that got us where we are today.
The more things go wrong, the more the White House looks for scapegoats. The web site doesn't work because of the contractors. The insurance policies are getting cancelled because of "bad apple" insurers. Everything is someone else's fault.
And it's not hard to anticipate the next big problem, nor is it difficult to predict who the White House will blame.
Very soon, employers who have fewer than 50 employees and are not required by ObamaCare to provide health insurance to their employees will start dumping them onto the exchanges. It's not that they'll want to. It will just be simple business reality. The "minimum standards" in ObamaCare require a level of coverage that will jack up premiums way beyond what many companies are able to budget for. Employers are already trying to avoid the requirement by cutting hours back to 29 or less per week, thus making employees part-time by ObamaCare definitions. But soon they'll look at the big picture and realize they're better off sending employees to the exchanges and letting them pursue government subsidies to help cover the premiums.
Oh, by the way, you only get a subsidy if your income doesn't exceed a certain level. That means employers will also have an incentive to limit pay, so their employees can get the subsidies. Not only is ObamaCare incentivizing the dropping of coverage, it's also incentivizing low wages.
When this happens - not if, when; it's inevitable - the Obama Administration will do what it always does and demonize the people who merely responded rationally to the incentives in ObamaCare. Companies are not in business to spend money excessively and irrationally if there is an alternative. Many who provided insurance to employees before will not do so now because, under the circumstances created by ObamaCare, it is no longer rational to do so.
Liberals like to pass laws that they envision working in theory, provided all kinds of people behave in exactly the manner liberals think they should. But because liberals are not as smart as they think they are, they are constantly surprised when people don't want to behave according to the liberal plan, and find ways not to do so. Then the liberals become incensed and blame these people for spoiling their perfectly brilliant plans.
It would have worked if only all you people had done exactly what we wanted you to do!
Poor dears.
