Joe Klein, every Republican's favorite "liberal" wrote a piece recently that has the right going nuts. According to Klein, Obamacare Incompetence is threatening implementation of the ACA. His main complaint is that the administration has been slow in setting up exchanges and the states that have declined to do so won't have them in time.
Klein then goes on to bash Obama about various things. from Head Start implementation to lagging Vet benefits claims (the latter is apparently accurate).
This led to a piece today in NRO that takes off from the Klein column and makes other attacks, including supposedly:
7 million people to lose employer coverage according to the CBO (but won't they be covered by the exchanges?)
premiums increasing, rather than declining (is this true?)
etc.
I believe there's a lot of crap in both the Klein and NRO piece, and if I didn't have this job to do, I would research this myself.
Can anyone provide links to rebuttals of the Klein and NRO pieces or even better do a diary with point by point debunking?
thanks!