The cataract of insurance co-op failures—nine down, 14 to go—has liberals defensive over ObamaCare. Most amusing is their attempt to blame this debacle conceived by liberals and perpetrated by liberals on, yes, Republicans.
The federally sponsored co-ops were designed as an alternative to for-profit insurers, and they’re now going insolvent one by one. The emerging sentimental narrative is that a “Republican filibuster” in the Senate in 2009-10 prevented Democrats from adopting the White House’s preferred public option, and therefore naturally the inferior co-ops were bound to have problems.
The apologists pushing this excuse would be more convincing if they weren’t rewriting the recent past that everybody remembers. The public option—Medicaid for all—was supposed to be an opening wedge for single-payer health care. But the idea didn’t die because of Republicans, who were shut out of four of the five committees that wrote ObamaCare and with merely 40 Senators were helpless to stop so much as a swinging door. For the full article click here
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