Posted on 11/14/2013 4:53:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act is not going well.
President Obama announced an administrative fix on Thursday: an extension that allows insurers to keep people on health care plans that the Affordable Health Care act would not have allowed.
The Affordable Care Act changes the way insurance is regulated. It declares that many services are now mandatory. It's very likely that newer policies, with more robust benefits, will be more expensive.
That will make many people unhappy.
Obama knows the law is in trouble. The truth of the matter is there is no easy solution here. Disrupting the current system isn't a bug of health care reform; it's a feature. It's what was supposed to happen.
Obama's administrative fix, much like the House bill, allow plans offered this year to remain in place if people want them. But that will just shift blame to the insurance companies when they cancel them. For many of the reasons above, they won't want to keep them going.
The real problem here, and one that few are addressing, is that the old health care system isn't that good. We wanted to change it. Doing so means that it, well, changes. If we liked our old health care system, we could keep it. But we didn't, and so at some point we're going to have to accept a new one.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“We wanted to change it. Doing so means that it, well, changes. If we liked our old health care system, we could keep it. But we didn’t, and so at some point we’re going to have to accept a new one.”
Does he have a mouse in his pocket?
I don't know about a mouse in his pocket.
But I wouldn't be surprised about a gerbil in his ...
Obama used ‘we’ and ‘our’ a lot in this speech...
He’s saying, “Eat your broccoli.”
Physicians for a National Health Program
http://www.pnhp.org/states/indiana
Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 18,000 members and chapters across the United States.
Since 1987, we’ve advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. We educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system—including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 50 million Americans who have none.
Our members and physician activists work toward a single-payer national health program in their communities. PNHP performs ground breaking research on the health crisis and the need for fundamental reform, coordinates speakers and forums, participates in town hall meetings and debates, contributes scholarly articles to peer-reviewed medical journals, and appears regularly on national television and news programs advocating for a single-payer system.
PNHP is the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing a single-payer national health program.
Obama has created an even bigger mess by illegally “allowing” insurance companies to continue offering those “sub par” policies clearly in violation of the ACA.
Pfftttttt I just spit out my beer when I saw the source was CNN on this article.
CNN suddenly finds someone who knows what they are talking about?
Maybe it is time for Candy Crowley to jump in and help the Clown.
Oh, so I see the AUTHOR of the piece is a doc who wants SINGLE PAYER?
Communist.
This is coming from a governmental employee for the State of Indiana who has no worries about his state provided health insurance.
Just wait until they start squeezing his bloated pension and listen to him squeal!
Creating chaos out of chaos - we are at a tipping point and he has the balls to keep ratcheting the lawlessness up to ever higher degrees.
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