Why the Health Care Law Scares the GOP

[antigop]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/business/economy/why-the-health-care-law-scares-the-gop.html

“The main beneficiaries tend to have lower wages, employed in smaller businesses that are not providing health insurance,” she said. “They are not elderly. They are also not the poorest.”

And they might be grateful to Democrats for the benefit.

To conservative Republicans, losing a large slice of the middle class to the ranks of the Democratic Party could justify extreme measures.

[gopiscrap]

1. Exactly

[OhioChick]

2. Good article

Thanks for posting.

K&R

[truebluegreen]

3. It's worse than that--for the GOP.

Government is the solution, not the problem. Suck on that!

[antigop]

4. um, did you read the article?

There is a plausible alternative to irrationality. Flawed though it may turn out to be, Obamacare, as the Affordable Care Act is popularly known, could fundamentally change the relationship between working Americans and their government. This could pose an existential threat to the small-government credo that has defined the G.O.P. for four decades.

[greymattermom]

5. it changes the relationship between middle class folks and their employers

Now it's possible to work part time or for a small company. No more slaves to benefits. I'm guessing it will also reduce the marriage rate.

[Doctor_J]

6. It might also bring in some campaign ca$h from Big Insurance

It has capped their profits (at an astronomical 20%), in return for guarantees that all Americans will be paying customers. It will also quell the call for SP (look what's happened at DU), meaning that their guaranteed 20% profit is locked up for the foreseeable future. I would have to think that the insurance execs, while possibly not ecstatic at the new regs, can see the upside.

[area51]

7. +1

GingrichCare is a law that says insurance companies have a right to live -- but we the people don't have such a right.

And if anyone tries to bring in single-payer in the future, the insurance companies will say (1) "we're too big to fail", and (2) "the Supreme Court says we have a right to exist, the IRS is our enforcer, and you can't take that away from us."