Posted on 11/16/2013 12:38:28 PM PST by John Semmens
The feasibility of President Obama’s ad hoc revision of the Affordable Care Act was immediately disputed by leading insurers and state insurance regulators.
On the insurance industry side, Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, called the President’s move “unworkable and unfair. There is no way at this late date to implement this latest promise of President Obama. Getting our policy options in line with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act took us close to three years of work. Resurrecting policies that the ACA has outlawed cannot be accomplished within the time remaining before the legislated December 31st expiration of these non-conforming policies.”
“The president’s transparent attempt to shift all the blame onto us reneges on the deal we thought we had with the Administration,” Ignagni complained. “The government forcing everyone to buy upgraded policies was the trade-off for us agreeing to take on those with pre-existing conditions. If the government isn’t going to force people to buy over-priced policies where are we supposed to get the money to cover new high-risk individuals?”
On the state insurance regulation side, Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler (D) says “the president’s ‘fix’ would wreck the state’s health insurance exchange. The whole point of the Affordable Care Act is to compel healthy and low-risk individuals to subsidize the medical needs of unhealthy and high-risk individuals. Allowing each person to selfishly purchase only the coverage he or she needs undermines this objective. We won’t allow it.”
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http://azconservative.org/2013/11/15/president-fixes-obamacare/
open mic’s would pick up just that kind of stuff.
Damn you, John. I get sucked in. Get through the first paragraph, the blood starts to boil. THEN I think to look up and see if this is one of those John Semmens posts. You must get a perverse kick out of doing that to people. Good job as always.
It’s definitely not a fix.
If 0Killer needs fixin’, I say we let Jesse Jackson do some snippin’
Ummm, John this ain’t satire, well maybe to a Democrat.
HOW IS THIS SATIRE ?? It is exactly what has to happen for Obamacare to work, and it is the dirty deal the insurance companies made with Obama to begin with.
even if they can fix the website, ObamaCare itself will never work
Actually, it could if they're patient. If a person is allowed to sign up when they need it, but once you're in you can never leave (to paraphrase an Eagles song with I believe was about an insane asylum) it'll be like an income tax deduction, but increasing at the whim of insurance companies. It'll destroy medical innovation, it'll decrease spending on things besides medicine, and it will probably kill people while they argue with their insurance companies, wait for appointments and approvals, and deal with things like being away from the exchange when they get sick.
Nobody's thought this out. Is there going to be an underground of self-healers who totally stay away from the forced nature of the system? I hope so.
John: I read it twice and can’t find the satire. BH
The fix needs a fix.
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