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complainants are liars! Health insurance is a confusing racket, and
the thought of losing coverage is
unimaginably stressful. The best
remedy for this uncertainty, if not
the coverage quandary itself, is a
website that does not yet exist.
Naturally, it should be noted
that it’s rather surprising to see
so many Republicans suddenly
taking an extraordinary interest
in people receiving letters about
losing their health care coverage.
It’s certainly a new thing! But it
is likely not a sustainable thing.
As Philip Klein admits, over at the
Examiner, “there’s also a danger
of making the idea that nobody’s
coverage will ever change as a result of reform a tenet of Republi-
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The number of people
who currently think of
themselves as ‘losers’ is double
the size of the actual ‘potential
loser’ population.”
can health care policy.”
Well, I should say so, considering
that drastically limiting the number
of people covered by insurance is
actually a cornerstone of Republican health care policy. As Jonathan
Cohn at The New Republic explains:
Start with the federal budgets
crafted by Paul Ryan. You remember those, right? Those
proposals passed through the
House with unanimous Republican support and were, in
2012, a basis of the Republican
MIT Professor
of Economics
Jonathan
Gruber
helped advise
the Obama
administration
on the
development
of the
“individual
mandate.”