Republicans’ new anti-Obamacare tactic: Class war

Republicans’ new anti-Obamacare tactic: Class war

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Get this: Late last week the government announced that its online health insurance marketplace — an e-commerce portal for millions of uninsured people in 36 states — would soon be working, and some people were very upset about it.

You read that right. There are actually a lot of people working in politics who want the technical problems that have plagued these marketplaces to persist, so that uninsured people remain unable to purchase coverage.

And here’s a modest prediction: If the marketplaces don’t begin work by about the end of November, these same people will pretend to be extremely concerned for the well-being of the marketplace’s intended consumers, but they’ll actually be extremely pleased that those consumers will be locked out of it.
The right’s reaction to Healthcare.gov’s troubled rollout, and now to the prospect that it will be fixed before it becomes an existential liability to the Affordable Care Act writ large reveals much more than the fact that conservatives really, really hate Obamacare.