House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took another shot at President Obama and the Affordable Care Act this week after hearing that small business' access to the federal ACA website will be delayed for a year. Small business owners were told that they should use insurance brokers to purchase health insurance for their employees instead. "The President bit off more than he can chew with this new health care law, and small businesses are now forced to bear the consequences."
what eye thynk: I have just one question for Mr. Boehner: What did you expect to happen?
You and your Republican buddies have spent two years trying to repeal the law. You have done everything in your power to stand in the way of its implementation, including refusing to budget money for ACA administration costs and website design. Nobody really believes your stance of indignation and disappointment with the law's current problems. In light of your failure to overturn the law completely, the current bugs are everything you could have hoped for.
Did I want the ACA to be ready for prime time last month? Of course. But this is not the first big government program to face bumps in its roll out road--remember W's Medicare Plan D problems at the beginning of 2006? And that program did not have to contend with opposite party sabotage before its debut.
It's not so much that the President bit off more than he can chew. It's more like he created a menu and for two years Republicans have refused to turn on the oven. Dinner will be ready eventually. Until then, do us all a favor and stay out of the kitchen.
wonder how easily implementation would have gone with the GOP helping out? They are still the party of "NO". And to that, I will say "NO" to everything they ask for ~ even if it's to toss them a line as they sink even deeper.
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