So smart they are stupid....or vice versa?

I'm not sure if the libs are so smart they are stupid, or vice versa.
The entire ACA rollout has shown the absolute ignorance of the administration and congress of the realities of free markets in general and the health insurance industry in particular.  They have painted themselves into a corner from which there is no escape.

They were so ignorant of the insurance industry that they created a paradigm that requires them to sell something they couldn't sell previously at a price that nobody would buy.  Now that that has been made painfully clear, they are trying to fool people into believing that they had no idea this would be the case.  However, insurance companies have spent the last 3 years coming up with those products they couldn't sell, and all of the associated programming, actuarial, and marketing work only to now be faced with congress looking at a get out of jail free card....FOR CONGRESS!!!!  The beauty of it is that, if the democrats bring this up, republicans HAVE to vote for it but it makes no difference.  Those plans WILL NOT EXIST after 12/31.  The insurance companies simply don't have time, in 7 weeks, to do the work required to "restore" the world to the way congress says.  There isn't enough time to "recreate" all of those plans, program, and price them all based on an even DIFFERENT set of rules and marketplace.

They can't repeal it, they can't alter its plan, it's ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.  Libs are the leading practitioners of "unintended consequences" and they are NEVER in the interests of the people.