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When Fraud Is Legal
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 1,2013 | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 11/03/2013 12:02:50 PM PST by Hojczyk

Suppose BHO Insurance Co. decides it wants to corner its state's market in automobile coverage. It begins an aggressive ad campaign offering a too-good-to-be-true deal: Sign up with us, and we'll give you better coverage at lower premiums. We're so sure you'll love our deal that if you like the terms of your existing policy, you'll be able to keep them--GUARANTEED!

The ad campaign, with the company's charismatic president acting as pitchman, is a smashing success. The competing companies lose so much business that they declare bankruptcy or are acquired by BHO. But BHO's policies are more expensive, and they include "comprehensive" coverage most customers neither need nor want. Take it or leave it, the company says, reneging on its guarantee in the knowledge that state law requires cars to be insured before they can be driven on public streets.

You'd call that a bait-and-switch. The legal term is fraud.

Legally, however, the two scenarios are entirely different. Whereas BHO Insurance Co.'s scam is against the law; ObamaCare is the law. Thus there is no evident legal recourse for those who were injured by Obama's fraudulent promise--for people like reader Kathleen Crowley, who writes:

My health-care policy was cancelled, and the Obama administration's explanation that policies are being cancelled because they were "substandard" and issued by "bad apple" insurers is absolutely not true. I had a very comprehensive policy, with a large and solid national health insurer, and the reasons my policy was not "ACA compliant" is because I now have to pay for maternity coverage, general pediatric coverage and pediatric dental coverage, as prescribed by ObamaCare. I'm 55 years old, have no children and don't plan to have children. Clearly, I am beyond childbearing age, and without children. Why would I have to purchase pediatric dental insurance? pediatric care?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; legalfraud; obamacare; obamacaredefrauds; obamacarelegalfraud; zerocare

1 posted on 11/03/2013 12:02:50 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Is this the gal that campaigned for BHO, and is still a loyal supporter?

Saw her on YouTube. Amazingly brainwashed.


2 posted on 11/03/2013 12:07:54 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Hojczyk

If BHO was in the private sector hawking insurance, he would be on his way to prison.


3 posted on 11/03/2013 12:20:54 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Obama is a proven liar.)
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4 posted on 11/03/2013 12:36:40 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Hojczyk
The recourse is not in the courts-- it is in the ballot box if we have the wits to use it.

This means punishing any Democrat jerkoff who supported this debacle.

5 posted on 11/03/2013 12:44:00 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: Hojczyk

Good analogy. They ripped us off on the GM/Chrysler bail-out, then had the nerve to say we were breaking even as they sold the shares at a loss.
These people lie about the weather (’climate change’) just to stay in practice.


6 posted on 11/03/2013 12:47:03 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Lysandru
The recourse is not in the courts-- it is in the ballot box if we have the wits to use it.

Because that worked so well last election.

Revolts aren't won by votes.

7 posted on 11/03/2013 12:50:55 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Hojczyk; All
Not blowing my own horn, nor suggesting that Taranto lurks at FR, but last week I posted a tongue-in-cheeck vanity "If Obama was in charge of automobile insurance"

It seemed so obvious, I'm surprised nobody has done it before..(G)

8 posted on 11/03/2013 2:08:58 PM PST by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: Hojczyk

According to Laura Ingraham, they’re guilty of “fraud in the inducement.”


9 posted on 11/03/2013 4:15:31 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Hojczyk
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10 posted on 11/03/2013 6:34:19 PM PST by HotHunt
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