Why did Ryan agree to postpone dealing with the employer mandate? We have the answer and it is brilliant on the part of Ryan.

What are the implications to ObamaCare if the Cadillac Tax is allowed to stand?  I am thinking Ryan's decision to postpone dealing with the implementation of the Cadillac tax and the employer mandate,  is part of a plan to leverage Progressives into significant changes to the health care reform.  

We all know that ObamaCare is here to stay,  on some level.  

Sadly,  it is a fact that health care costs are spiraling out of control.  Understand that only 11 million Americans (at most) are enrolled in the plan   . . . .  and that is the case precisely because of the looming  Cadillac Tax,  something that the Dems are afraid to enact because of threats from the unions.  We are talking about 160 million policies not under the banner of "ObamaCare."   And,  if these folks are not enrolled,  then ObamaCare is not the single-payer forerunner the Progressives had hoped it would become.    AND,  if the union folks have the right to choose their plan,   then the law that requires fines and "membership" is both unfair and politically impossible to maintain   . . . .   all must be allowed to choose.

If I am going too fast for you,  you should know that those 160 million policies,  covering more than 240 million Americans via the "employer mandate,"  continue to exist because of threats from the unions,  who use choice and their "Cadillac" plans to recruit folks into the unions.  Their "Grade AAA health insurance plans"  will be taxed to the tune of 40% annually plus the ever increasing price of annual insurance costs,  when the employer mandate is put into effect.     ObamaCare spells the end of these Grade AAA,  "Cadillac" plans.  At any rate,  Obama has postponed the implication of the employer mandate because the unions have pretty much told him to go to hell if he enforces the employer mandated tax.  

When I first heard Ryan's decision to allow the Cadillac Tax to be postponed,  I was as angry as I have been with the man,  and I actually support Ryan and what he is trying to do on the larger scale.    I like the guy. 

Now,  a few days after thinking about Ryan's postponement as to dealing with the Cadillac Tax,    I am thinking he is some kind of a genius.   Understand,  that if the GOP wins the presidential election,  the party will have leverage for making significant and need changes to ObamaCare.  "You Dems agree to our changes,  and we will allow the Cadillac policies without the tax."  Powerful.  (in fact,  the leverage exists wheather "we" win the election or not). 

In the end,  I believe Ryan is working for revision of ObamaCare,  to the point that it will never be a single payer system.   We win and the Progressives lose.