Wow, maybe Obamacare will blow up after all:
The question is, is there any way to maintain this level of negligence without looking like you were trying to sabotage the marketplace. I suspect the “plausible” half of “plausible deniability” is already off the table.
EDIT: The US Chamber of Commerce of all people is begging them to do their jobs, for goodness sakes!
Oh silly me, thinking that sabotaging access to healthcare for millions through negligence would be the sort of thing you’d want to hide, not gloat about. I was taking that “faithfully execute” part of the oath of office so literally:
Nice health care system you got there. It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.
The thing is, for this particular grift to work, he will still need to propose a replacement plan that kicks fewer people off healthcare than he would kick off through market sabotage, and I haven’t seen any indications anything like that’s even being considered–so in that sense, it’s more of a spite move than actual leverage (which doesn’t make it less plausible, I’m afraid). But if the goal is simply to retake control of the headlines for a while, I’d say it’s a better plan than forgetting that the Holocaust happened, or hiring even more white supremacists.