In spite of seven years of railing against ObamaCare, the Republican Congress seems to be having a hard time to repeal and replace or even to reform ObamaCare. The whole process strikes this observer as a bloody mess with a decent outcome in doubt. One of the biggest political bugaboos with the Paul Ryan replacement proposal is that the Congressional Budget Office predicts that something like 14 million of people will lose their healthcare under the Ryan plan in the first year. This number is surely exaggerated. Karl Rove estimates it to be 10 million.  Still, this is a large number, and it scares the bejesus out of moderate Republicans, who fear the ensuing hyper hard luck stories in the Democrat media if even a single soul is dropped from coverage. But interestingly, Rove also notes that of this 10 million losing health insurance, almost all are due to repealing the individual mandate penalties. Those who enrolled in ObamaCare under the force of a penalty...(Read Full Post)