Wait, there’s capitalism in Obamacare?
Via RCP:
TANDEN: Here’s the thing, we have an example right now in California. Insurers are coming in and they are offering their rates. Their rates are lower — what they are offering in exchange is lower than what they’ve been offering up to date because there is competition.
This is what is so odd about this. And then the irony of the attacks on Obamacare all along, which is these are conservative ideas. Having a marketplace, people being able to choose —
MAHER: Right
TANDEN: People being able to see the prices and compete.
MAHER: We didn’t go for the socialist plan. The problem with Obamacare isn’t too much socialism, it’s still too much capitalism.

