EDITORIAL: Democrats flee Obamacare ahead of midterm elections
Panicked partisans pleading with president to delay Affordable Care Act
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he wants to give President Obama a free hand to conduct diplomacy with Iran and doesn’t want to see Congress vote on the issue. (Associated Pres
President Obama is reluctantly delivering on his campaign promise to show a little transparency in his administration. The Hill, a Capitol Hill political daily, reported Tuesday that the White House is about to announce still another postponement in implementing Obamacare.
The latest directive would allow insurers to continue offering, through at least the end of 2015, health insurance plans that don’t meet the minimum coverage requirements dictated by Health and Human Services.
For once, the president isn’t trying to hide the politics. By enabling consumers to keep plans they like — the policies the administration has characterized as “substandard” and offered by “bad-apple insurers” — the deal would avert another wave of policy cancellations from arriving in mailboxes just weeks before the 2014 midterm congressional elections.
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