I'm thinking about the Syrian foreign policy debacle of the current administration as a blueprint for extricating the administration from their current health care software fubar; Obama was stuck trying to go forward with a small, strategic attack that wouldn't help much when the Russians bailed him out with a proposal to get Syria to allow for inspections. The inspections will likely only find what the Syrian government wants found, but it at least allows Obama to say that he's done something and move on.
The system that was originally design is showing its glitchiness. The employer mandate has been put on hold for a year, which will slide a number of workers who could have been expected to have employer-based insurance to slide over into the individual-insurance market. That will increase the cost of subsidies and still leave a number of people in worse shape than before.
The software problems could be akin to the Russian inspection proposal; Obama and the Democrats could make a virtue out of necessity and bail out of the glitchy plan. It might be seen as looking weak, but passively getting out of a bad situation might be better politically than to double-down and ride out a bad hand to a messy end.
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