Start The Clock: 99 Days Until ObamaCare “Train Wreck” Rolls Into The Station

Hear that sound?

In just 99 days, Americans will be allowed to enroll in the massive government takeover of healthcare and ObamaCare will finally begin in earnest.

Yesterday, The Washington Post’s Sarah Kilff detailed the lengths government agencies are going to get people to sign up for this disastrous law. ObamaCare’s effectiveness utterly relies on their ability to do so.

Yet, as the government marshals its resources into salvaging ObamaCare, the Chicago Tribune took a rhetorical buzzsaw to the law in a Sunday editorial.

Saying “this is not going to be a smooth ride,” the Tribune criticized the law’s implementation for being both vastly behind schedule and for seeming to deliver poor quality care for a higher price.

“Bottom line: The cost of health insurance in California and the rest of the country will spike for many people, especially the young. At the same time, millions of Americans will be pushed into fledgling, sure-to-be-glitchy exchanges to buy that insurance.

‘With roughly 100 days before the Oct. 1 opening of exchanges nationwide, federal and state officials have blown deadlines and remain tangled in regulatory confusion, according to twin reports last week from the Government Accountability Office.

‘Many states running their own small-business exchanges, for example, hadn’t finished nearly half the tasks that were supposed to have been done by the end of March, the GAO said.”

It seems like this view is catching on.

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll earlier this month found that the law is still as unpopular as it’s ever been—just 15 percent of those polled have a “very favorable” view of the law, while just 19 percent believe their families will be “better off” with it.

Since ObamaCare was signed into law three years ago and upheld by the Supreme Court one years ago, we knew this would come. Yet as the law begins in full, it is heralded by a string of broken promises and a disastrous rollout.

Ger ready: this “train wreck” is ready to roll into the station.