If you like your crummy health insurance plan, you can’t keep it — but now you can buy ours!

To paraphrase political humorist P.J. O’Rourke, “Giving the Obama administration control over one-sixth of the economy is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Last night provided yet another example of ObamaCare rollout chaos. The Obama administration announced that people who had their plans canceled by ObamaCare regulations (because they were inferior plans,...

To paraphrase political humorist P.J. O’Rourke, “Giving the Obama administration control over one-sixth of the economy is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Last night provided yet another example of ObamaCare rollout chaos. The Obama administration announced that people who had their plans canceled by ObamaCare regulations (because they were inferior plans, according to the administration) can temporarily buy inferior plans (catastrophic plans in the exchange, which were previously only available to people younger than 30).

In other words, individuals who had their plans canceled (but not the previously uninsured) will be temporarily exempt from the individual mandate if they buy a catastrophic plan on the exchange. Essentially, the administration is, once again, moving the goal posts a mere five days before the Dec. 23 deadline – the date individuals are required to enroll in ObamaCare to assure coverage on Jan.1 – to mitigate the damaging effects of the law.

So to save millions of Americans from their crummy health insurance plans (even if they liked them), federal regulations canceled millions of health insurance policies. Then, President Barack Obama asked state insurance commissioners to allow these insurers to extend the crummy, canceled plans for one year. Now, the administration is allowing the people who had their plans canceled to purchase ObamaCare’s crummy plan option, which was previously only available to those under age 30.

Make no mistake. The Obama administration and the ObamaCare supporters within the administration and Congress are treating the American people like political props. Rather than scrap this calamitous law, the administration is marching forward with, yet another, ill-conceived “fix” that fails to address the underlying reality: ObamaCare is not affordable and is actually increasing the number of uninsured Americans.

Amid the current slag heap of implementation delays, technological glitches and broken promises from the president to the American people, it’s becoming clear that ObamaCare is a train wreck. It is time to go back to the drawing board to craft solutions that give individuals control over their health care decisions and allow them to select options that best meet their own needs and preferences, rather than government-knows-best dictates.