William A. Jacobson:
Obama is spiking the football over sign-up numbers, but Democrats on the ground see things differently when not spinning.
Steve Lynch is a Democratic Rep. from Massachusetts who doesn’t hesitate to buck the party line from a centrist point of view, and to speak openly about problems in the party and with party positions.
Lynch ran for Senate to fill John Kerry’s seat, but lost in the primary to now-Senator Ed Markey.
Lynch recently was interviewed by The Boston Herald about upcoming Obamacare problems and how devastating they will be for Democrats. That runs contrary to cut current news cycle Democratic spin that (allegedly) meeting sign up goals means electoral problems related to Obamacare are over.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, the lone member of the Bay State delegation to vote against Obamacare four years ago, now predicts the law’s botched roll-out will not only cost Democrats valuable House seats but could even jeopardize their control of the Senate in this year’s hotly contested midterm elections.
“We will lose seats in the House,” the plain-talking South Boston Democrat said in Boston Herald Radio’s studio yesterday, delivering a harsh diagnosis. “I am fairly certain of that based on the poll numbers that are coming out from the more experienced pollsters down there. And I think we may lose the Senate. I think that’s a possibility if things continue to go the way they have been … primarily because of health care.”
Lynch cuttingly questioned whether many of his colleagues who echoed President Obama’s health care promises even “read through the bill really,” noting that many mechanisms created to fund the law still aren’t in effect.
Among them, Lynch said, is a hefty tax on employers who offer so-called “Cadillac” plans that won’t come into play until 2018.
I pray, on Easter Eve, that Obamacare will fail and all of those people will be uninsured again.
Off topic, but I would ask everyone who is physically able to take the time to donate blood. I ask this because yesterday I was faced with a terrible situation where a sick premature infant who needed a platelet transfusion had to wait almost 13 hours for them to be flown in from another state. When you donate blood it only costs some of your time, and you quite literally can be saving someone’s life. Someday the life that is saved could be yours or one of your loved ones.
As a physician, there is nothing more frustrating than knowing what your patient needs, but not being able to give it to them.
@Pete:
I donate blood every time they say I’m eligible again. I usually give through the double blood cells process.
Donating blood is a noble thing, I did until I got too old.
Georgia insurers received more than 220,000 applications for health coverage in the Affordable Care Act’s exchange…
Premiums have been received for only 107,581 of those policies….
Which means they’re not actually insured.
That’s fewer than 50%.
No wonder Obama is changing the Census’ questionaire.