Of course they’re lying about not having one. Everything they do with regard to health care has been a lie. And of course, all this talk of chaos if SCOTUS rules against the administration is just an attempt to influence their decision.
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Well, why would there be a plan B? Sounds to me like plan A is still in effect – create an emergency situation and bully the Supreme Court and/or Congress to go along with the current Obamacare scheme. Actually having a plan B undermines the current strategy.
If there is one, it is guaranteed to increase the power of the state over the rights of the individual.
But hey, you can still force Christians to make wedding cakes for gay weddings, so it’s A-OK!
Plan B is to ignore SCOTUS if they rule against the administration. They will have random protesters engage in mostly peaceful protest across the country and no one will ask who these people are or what party told them to go riot.
That’s my prediction as well – they will ignore SCOTUS. It accomplishes several things:
1) Show that the SCOTUS is powerless to stop them
2) Another opportunity for the GOP to roll over….since the GOP keeps doing that there’s no reason for Obama to not to continue to give them opportunities
3) Creates a crisis which fits with Alinsky rule number 8.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
All through the last 5+ years, we’ve seen one scandal and crisis after another. Since Obama has yet to be forced to pay a price for these, he’ll keep creating them as per rule #8.
Everything they do with regard to health care has been a lie.
And the lies start with the claim that ObamaCare is about health care at all. It’s about we pay for health care, AKA health insurance. Health care is what you get from doctors, nurses, therapists, and other “health care providers.” Lies, corruption, and power grabbing is what you get from government.
What sort of fallback plan would be feasible, other than lobbying states to establish exchanges?
I’m sure you’ll think of something. Refuse to pay Medicare, Social Security until an exchange is open; use the bureaucracy as pressure, just as you use the EPA on closing coal plants or then new Internet regulations to shut down free speech.
“feasible” is no longer operative because it implies limits (as in some ideas are not feasible). Obama now has no limits.
None.
He will bend and break the law and do whatever he wants.
And he will pile the crises one on top of another at an even faster rate than before.
Alinsky Rule #8
He’s already doing ht epiling on:
“As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.”
Now would be a good time for the Republicans to defund all these bureaus and agencies… and mean it.
But, of course, they won’t.
You’ll know the Republicans are serious if McConnell eliminates the fillibuster. Then the Senate votes Conservatively, Making Obama own it.
We haven’t seen that yet so I suspect you are right.
How about what he’s saying to ICE employees:
Obey the Diktat of Obama’s executive action (which he never signed) or face consequences.
Fallback plan? Like letting the free market, the thing responsible for the standard of living and technological progress we know today, work with minimal interference?
I can’t go to the doctor and talk about three different things. That takes three different appointments. In order to check my cholesterol, I see the doctor. Then wait a few months and see him again, then get blood work. Then see the doctor again. Instead of seeing the doctor once, waiting a few months, getting blood work done, then seeing the doctor. They add in an extra doctor visit because our system is totally borked.
Who cares, the insurance company and the government pay for everything. Its practically free right?
Why? I get my cholesterol checked, my BP checked, etc, in one visit: I go to the doctor, walk down the hall to the lab to give a blood sample, and then in a few days, I get an email from the lab with the complete numbers, and my doctor either calls or adds a note in plain English to give his interpretation of the results. At the doctor visit, I always bring a list of questions, and we walk through the list in a pretty unhurried fashion. I might feel guilty because I know people are waiting, but I never get the bum’s rush out the door or anything like that. The doctor is also a prof at a university medical school, so I try to stump him with questions. Sometimes that leads to interesting discussions, but sometimes it doesn’t go so well:
Me: A blogger I follow claims that eating fat doesn’t make you fat. Could this be true?
Doc: What blog is this?
Me: Um, it is about spaceships and libertarianism and
Doc: Ha ha ha ha! But seriously, I think I need to check your brain.
I wouldn’t expect that to go well. But you don’t have to take the “blogger”‘s word for it. I generally provide links to research. I am aware of zero scientific evidence that eating fat makes you fat. And I wouldn’t expect an MD to be an expert on nutrition.
You’re right about MDs, and you do provide links – I was just kidding around. The first part of my comment is serious – I don’t understand why Wodun has such crummy doctor visits.