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Scapegoated insurers fire back at Obama over “administrative fix”
Hotair ^ | 11/14/2013 | AllahPundit

Posted on 11/14/2013 1:40:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Not so fast. I worked with one of the dig insurance companies in Texas during the entire ACA mess. This company was NOT in favor of it ... at all. I even got the inside scoop by sitting in on panel meetings with medical professionals and company execs. Not a one of them liked this bill from the beginning.

So this article is painting with a broad brush by saying that all insurance companies lobbied for it.


21 posted on 11/14/2013 2:04:20 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats holding this off for a year is just to get them past the next election and then the entire manure pile will ignite. How stupid do these demented democrats think people are? What a bunch of greedy, egotistical, removed from reality, unethical a$$$$$holes these democrats have become!
They can be trusted with NOTHING and they are the ones who shoved this crap through in the first place. Let them eat $hit full of E.coli toxin....


22 posted on 11/14/2013 2:05:11 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Mears

bfl


23 posted on 11/14/2013 2:05:35 PM PST by Mears (Liberalism is the art of being easily offended.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This monster is a TAX. Since when can you WAIVE taxes?


24 posted on 11/14/2013 2:06:31 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: mmichaels1970
I wonder if we won’t see some insurance companies simply fold at some point.

I always thought that was the plan from the beginning. Still do.

25 posted on 11/14/2013 2:07:00 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: mmichaels1970

The IT staff must be reeling. Both for insurers and for medical systems in hospitals AND IN Drs’ offices.


26 posted on 11/14/2013 2:11:20 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm astonished that the Insurance industry is letting Obie spread this crap about how they “cancel people when they get sick”. Those cancellations are few, and they invariably involve someone who is believed to have lied about their health status on their application. State Insurance Regulators are well aware of those issues, and do a pretty decent job of policing.

Individual policies have provided protection from the costs of serious illness at a truly affordable rate and level of value that Obiecare will never get near.

As far as him citing “cancellations just because you don't pay your bill”, what does he think the new policies are going to do under the same circumstance?

27 posted on 11/14/2013 2:13:46 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: JediJones
They don’t have a lot of cards to play when offered a deal for less than total extinction by the Dems.

I dunno. Last time they adroitly played a pair of aces. Harry and Louise.


28 posted on 11/14/2013 2:15:56 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: combat_boots

you can’t, but you can waive enforcing the unpayment of the tax


29 posted on 11/14/2013 2:18:52 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: mmichaels1970

That might be okay with the Obama adminstration.


30 posted on 11/14/2013 2:20:06 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s interesting in that from what I can see this whole thing is going to spiral out of control and result in the bankruptcy of insurance companies. Here’s how it will go, premiums and deductibles will mean that all but those heavily subsidized or sick will sign up as the costs will not be worth it for most people. The low rate of participation will force the insurance companies to raise premiums which will force more people out of the system and so it will go until the costs will be so high no one (even with subsidies) will be able to afford insurance. Thus everyone will be doing what illegals do now which is simply go to the emergency room when in need of medical treatment (and if you’re smart you’ll leave your ID at home and claim to be Joe Blow so that they don’t come after you for the emergency room bill, just like the illegals do). At the end of a few years of this people will be begging for a single payer system and there will be no insurance companies left to oppose it. This will really start to accelerate when companies start dropping their insurance plans and kicking their employees into the exchanges.


31 posted on 11/14/2013 2:23:50 PM PST by trapped_in_LA
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To: duckbutt
We now have the insanity and chaos of a fake, incompetent leader who thinks he is a king but is disrespected across the globe and by his own people.

On his own he has created laws, repealed laws, amended laws, raised taxes, attacked other countries, abolished whole industries, dispensed our wealth to his favored groups, refused to control spending, took multi-million dollar vacations repeatedly, golfed continuously, ignored his duties, beheaded the US military, blamed everyone else for every problem, over-ruled courts and congress,,,,and on and on. Have you had enough yet?

32 posted on 11/14/2013 2:25:41 PM PST by Rapscallion (The party of the liberal lie have given you Obamacare. Republicans were locked out of the process.)
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To: SeekAndFind

These people just don’t want to see a black man be successful as president.


33 posted on 11/14/2013 2:26:14 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: SeekAndFind

They all deserve each other


34 posted on 11/14/2013 2:26:36 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

The voice of reason speaks again.


35 posted on 11/14/2013 2:31:15 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Beave Meister

oh, yeah! That is hilarious...in sort of a disgusting way.


36 posted on 11/14/2013 2:32:06 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

RE: These people just don’t want to see a black man be successful as president.

Oh but he IS successful... to the extent that he wants to “fundamentally transform” America (his own words), he has already done that... successfully.


37 posted on 11/14/2013 2:34:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: I want the USA back

The insurance companies are in on the scam... too bad dems are screwing them over now... /s


38 posted on 11/14/2013 2:40:00 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: SeekAndFind

WA and OR (two BLUE states, I might add) have already said thanks, but no thanks to Nobama’s decree.


39 posted on 11/14/2013 2:42:13 PM PST by randita
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To: Beave Meister
Yeah....and more people signed up for a one way trip to Mars than signed up for Obamacare...

Should have invited Richard Branson to put it together....VirginCare.

40 posted on 11/14/2013 2:46:27 PM PST by spokeshave (Obamacare is planned, just like the planned famine by the Russians to eliminate the Ukrainians.)
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