Ben Sasse: HHS May Have No ‘Plan B’ for ObamaCare, But I Have One

“If the court finds for the rule of law and that they’ve acted illegally in these 37 states of flowing subsidy monies that they didn’t have legal authority to flow, she then says we’ve taken hostages so that when cancer patients are thrown off their plans, we’ll have no backup plan and we can blame Republican governors.

Here is what their plan B is. Their plan B is to go to every governor in America and say the only way to continue protecting people in your state is by baptizing the illegal actions of the Obama administration. It’s crazy. We need to do something better than that. We need to be thrilled that the court is very likely I think in June going to rule these 37 states acting illegally in their subsidies.

We then need to not expand ObamaCare, not extend ObamaCare and not fix ObamaCare but we need to offer transitional temporary assistance to the 6 million people who will suffer from yet another ‘if you like your plan you can keep your being switched.’

My solution is we need to amend the Cobra law from 1985. When people lose their insurance because they lose their job they can get 18 month of transitional assistance as they exit that insurance pool. We should allow that same thing for people exiting during the ObamaCare wind down.”