Hey, Politico, thanks for noticing! Its actually a pretty complete story, for all its tardiness, detailing the efforts by Republican governors and legislatures to refuse to set up exchanges, to refuse Medicaid expansion, and to block efforts by navigators to inform people about the new law. It includes the House Republicans refusal to allow any new funds to the law after it was clear the federal exchange would have to cover dozens of state. It covers the legal challenges and the efforts by conservative groups and pundits to convince people to boycott getting health insurance. It includes Rep. Darrell Issas ongoing witch hunts to try to gum up the works and his harassment of totally unrelated private companies, sending letters last week to Google, Microsoft, Verizon, Oracle and Expedia, demanding to know if they were among the Silicon Valley experts enlisted by the Obama administration to help fix the sputtering health care website. None of this, of course, is news. Republican sabotage has been reported in plenty of outlets and blogs for all the years that its been happening, but has never been the focus that it should have been. Considering that this Republican obsession with nullifying the law has essentially destroyed a functioning government, maybe its time more of the beltway press clue in.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 19:52:37 +0000
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