The Obama administration’s abandonment of its efforts to implement the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act underscores something that conservatives have been arguing for two years: Regardless of what you think about more or less government regulation of health care, Obamacare is poorly designed and will prove calamitous if implemented, threatening the way that the middle class pays for and receives medical care.
Put another way, liberalism could have done a lot better than this awful law, and conservatives who oppose more government intervention in health care on principle got lucky (in a sense) that the Democrats enacted a law with so many problems. Following this train of thought to its logical conclusion, we might therefore conclude that the left will be fortunate if the Supreme Court ultimately strikes down Obamacare, because the public will then never have to experience life under the new law, and thus liberals will not have to take the blame for it.
