The Obama campaign, confident from having a bigger box office in Jan/Feb than Superman or something, decided to attack healthcare mandates, in a flier (that reportedly sent Hillary ballistic).
If I were a super-delegate, I'd be worried about what Obama means when he talks about addressing people who 'game the system', under his plan, because his plan sets up a system with incentives to game it, right?
Pushing back against mandates is an Obama campaign "triangulation", an effort to save face for a bad policy design. For one thing, the Obama critique of the Clinton plan is incoherent. If Obama's plan will make health insurance affordable for everyone, then Clinton's plan will too, regardless of mandates. Put another way, the Obama campaign has a beef with itself and undermines its own argument, admitting that some will not be able to afford healthcare (and therefore, might be subject to fines).
If I were a super-delegate, I'd be worried about what Obama means when he talks about addressing people who 'game the system', under his plan, because his plan sets up a system with incentives to game it, right?
