This does not seem like an idea that is likely to gain traction amongst the (heavily Republican controlled) state legislatures where such a change would need to be enacted via legislation.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that this line of thinking was good or logical. I do not know what the hard numbers on this would be, but I think it's pretty likely that what you suggest—cutting back on the administrative costs would be of great value to employers, and lowered rates and expected employer contributions if…

Also there is the whole gerrymandering issue. What can be done on that now is mostly trying to change how districts are drawn. I have been led to understand this is something Barack Obama plans to work on post-presidency, so hopefully there is opportunity for some progress that will impact how districts are drawn post…

If anyone has a real answer to this, save it for your stump speech and/or book deal.

Maybe Republicans could have a) not spent the last 7 years yelling that the ACA must be repealed immediately or the country would explode and/or b) used some of the time since the passing of the ACA to write legislation that they could build public support for, get through the House and Senate, etc. instead of…

If you didn't depend on your employer for access to insurance and therefore to health care, it might be easier to demand more money from or leave a job if you didn't like it, or retire early or some such thing—in the CBO's analysis of the ACA for example, they noted that a couple million people would leave their jobs…

It would be framed as *Obamacare* being repealed, not the ACA. We already know the GOP has had some success in people perceiving they are different things.

Bottom line, there is a long list of ways in which Americans have been misinformed for decades about what insurance is, how it works, who *deserves* access to healthcare, etc. The result is: no appetite for single payer.

Can't we just bring back Lewis Black's The Root of All Evil instead?

It would be cool if having the comment pane open disabled endless scroll. Or at least if you scrolled to the end of the comments it didn't suddenly start moving the bottom panel if you reached the bottom of the comments and were still scrolling.

Time to reimplement the University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol in all schools.

This is what we deserve, isn't it?

Disadvantage: with the endless scroll it's easy to go way past the appropriate post… and whenever I click the "[x] new comments below" notification it a) doesn't take me to new comments while b) kicking me down a half dozen posts on the left.

No, but every time I load more at the bottom it skips down a bunch of posts, so I get that it might look that way.

I mean, do what you want, but your assumption isn't likely to hold up.

It can be two things.

Mid June is the earliest, unless they're going to change time slot.

Started out interesting. Became a waste of time. Died twice. But it looked cool.

Different form, like maybe a ghost?

Nah, they won't even need to investigate because Jason Chaffetz assures us this is going to resolve itself!