Democrat freakout getting pretty awesome as ObamaCare implodes

We should enjoy this. Oh sure, the damage ObamaCare is doing to the nation is catastrophic. With the passage of one horrendous piece of legislation, they've virtually destroyed the health insurance market and left millions in the lurch. Worse: There is really no practical way to fix it because the insurers spent three years adjusting their business models and negotiating new terms with health providers in preparation for this very thing.

Just as you can't separate Sprite from cranberry juice once you mix the two together, you can't exactly undo the changes to the health insurance market just by passing a law that claims to have done so. That, of course (as we'll explore momentarily), was the big problem with ObamaCare in the first place. So, yeah, it's awful. But we know that and we have to deal with that every day. For now, we have every right to enjoy the panic setting in amongst the creeps who foisted this on the nation out of a combination of ignorance, arrogance and sheer lust for political power. Every one of them deserves the unbridled fear and loathing now setting in as they desperately search for a way to preserve their political lives.

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The Washington Examiner reports that mutiny is in the air, and the White House is having little success containing it:

White House officials on Wednesday talked to angry House Democrats who are up for re-election next year. The glitch-plagued website has made it difficult for people to sign up for new health care plans -- just 106,185 were able to do so last month, administration officials announced Wednesday. Many of those who did sign up discovered they'd be paying higher premiums and deductibles than they had with their existing plans. Millions of Americans have received cancellation notices from their insurers because the plans they had did not meet the new law's minimum benefit requirements, which range from free mammograms to maternity care to pediatric dental coverage. Like Udall, other vulnerable Senate Democrats have reacted to the disastrous rollout by crafting legislation that would allow many people to keep their cancelled plans. The leading proposal, authored by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., would allow people to temporarily keep health insurance plans issued before Obamacare became law in March of 2010.

Of course, as we explained yesterday, Landrieu's bill would solve nothing. It would actually presume to force insurers to keep offering plans that ObamaCare forced them to cancel on the premise that they were "substandard." A simpler approach in the House by Republican Fred Upton, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, would exempt those existing plans from the ObamaCare standards so they could continue to be offered. That puts Democrats in an even bigger fix because if people can keep the less expensive plans they like, hardly anyone will sign up for the overpriced, overloaded ObamaCare plans that force you to pay for coverage of things many will never need (maternity care, substance abuse treatment, etc.), and if that happens, there will be no way to expand the risk pool to make the scheme economically feasible. So Democrats can choose between staying the course and forcing people to buy overpriced, useless coverage (which still might not work because many will decide it's more sensible to just pay the fine/tax), or they can relent and let people stick with what they had, which will hasten the inevitable economic collapse of the ObamaCare model. No wonder they're freaking out. Every door leads to a 2014 bloodbath. Speaking of which, not for no reason is Bill Clinton going rogue and throwing Obama under the bus with respect to the keep-your-plan promise lie. He can see what ObamaCare portends for Hillary in 2016. It will cost her the opportunity to preen as "president" while Bill runs the show. Expect the Clintons to further distance themselves from this turkey, however absurdly disingenuous they have to be in order to achieve it. However bad the shellacking will be for Democrats who voted for ObamaCare in 2009 and 2010, it will be richly deserved and wonderful to behold. Their decision to shove this disaster down the throats of an unwilling country was one of the most egregious acts of political malfeasance in the history of this nation. They passed a bill most of them had not even read, taking a market they did not understand and ripping it up from its foundations, imposing a series of mandates and regulations for which they had no concept of the consequences. That brings us back around to my earlier point. Many politicians are both highly conceited and - let's be honest - quite dumb in the sense that they really think anything they say in a law they pass will happen exactly the way the law proscribes. You pass a law mandating that everyone buy health care and that it will be affordable, and you really think that's exactly what's going to happen simply because of the power of government. You have no concept of how markets will react to what you've mandated and incentivized. It doesn't occur to you that just because your law says a web site will facilitate this or that doesn't mean it actually will. You don't understand that language designed to "bend the cost curve" won't necessarily do that at all just because your law says it's supposed to. They really are that dumb. When government central planners attempt to control economies, the result is always disastrous because the central planners don't understand how economies work. They think it really is as simple as just placing controls on everything and sitting back to watch it function exactly as the control models say it should. When it doesn't work, they become indignant at all the scofflaws out there ("bad apple" insurers) who just aren't doing things the way the brilliant central planners proscribed. We need more control! The Democrats deserve to be obliterated for the arrogance, conceit and dishonesty that drove the passage of this monstrosity. And they deserve to spend all the time they have left twisting in the wind, panicking and begging for mercy that will not come. They've done that much damage to the nation, and they did it for no good reason as the nation was clearly imploring them not to. No amount of suffering is sufficient for this, and no amount of enjoyment on our part is over the top.