Posted on 11/15/2013 9:37:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
House Democrats on Friday will offer an alternative to a Republican bill that would allow insurance companies to continue offering plans that are being canceled because of ObamaCare.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is trying to limit defections by calling on her members to consider the Democratic alternative over the GOP bill, which the White House has said it will veto.
A Democratic leadership aide in the House said the proposal is similar to one offered by Democrats in the Senate, but has some key provisions that scale back Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (R-La.) legislation.
The bill would allow insurance companies to continue offering limited plans to those presently on them, but only for one year. It’s similar to the White House’s Thursday proposal aimed at keeping President Obama’s promise that if you like your plan, you can keep it.
Democrats will offer up the plan ahead of a Friday vote on Republican bill that would also allow insurers to continue offering plans that existed before ObamaCare. That bill from Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has four Democratic co-sponsors.
Insurance companies and regulators warn that all of the proposals would cause “chaos” in the marketplace and could undermine the law.
And why would they believe ANYTHING the Democrats tell them?
The Democrats will try to replace legislation by Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., in a vote on the House floor Friday afternoon with their own plan to let insurers keep offering plans for another year.
Like a bill by Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., the House Democrats’ plan would allow individuals to preserve canceled health insurance plans that do not meet the standards of the 2010 health law. Unlike her proposal, however, the House Democratic alternative would not let people keep their plans permanently.
“Therefore [it] prevents any long-term, harmful impacts on the Affordable Care Act,” according to a House Democratic leadership aide.
It also would leave it up to insurers to extend their plans, unlike the Landrieu bill, which requires them to do so.
According to the aide, the proposal would require insurers to notify customers of options and benefits available in the health insurance exchanges and consumer protections not provided under existing plans. It would also give Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and state insurance commissioners the authority to go after “bad actor” insurance companies and take corrective measures against “excessive, unjustified, unfair, and discriminatory rates.”
The plan is designed to limit defections from within the caucus by members who are facing difficult re-election bids in 2014, plus those who are simply fed up with the Obama administration’s rocky rollout of the 2010 health law. Democratic leadership argues that Upton’s bill represents just another Republican attempt to undermine Obamacare, and the White House vowed Thursday night to veto it."
They could. But at least 99% of all House Democrats will base their votes not on what is right but how confident they are that the media-Democrat Party alliance can hoodwink their constituents into re-electing them again next year.
If Krauthammer et al are to be believed, Obama’s “fix” yesterday took all this off the table.
No?
He knew all along the insurance companies weren’t going to do anything with this new “permission” he unilaterally and illegally gave them. In fact it’s the last thing he wants to happen, because the whole Obamacare scam depends on those people buying new policies at the exchanges, not continuing their old ones.
His next move, I predict, will be to shove Sebelius under the bus. It really won’t help fix the law but she would be a suitable sacrifice, especially since she’s not damaged goods.
Hey Chris Matthews - is the thrill gone yet?
Next year may come sooner than the Dems want.
Countdown: US Hits Debt Ceiling in 84 Days
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/15/countdown-US-Hits-Debt-Ceiling-in-84-days
Twelve weeks from today, the US government will hit its borrowing limit. When Congress lifted the debt ceiling last month, for the first time ever, it pegged the increase to a specific date, rather than a dollar amount. The current borrowing authority expires in just 84 days, on February 7th.
Should Republicans “Demand delay” or “Changes” to 0bamacare for extending the debt ceiling ?
If they do, I suspect they will get a boat load of Democrat support and may work to the Dems advantage.
Should they go one step further and call for a complete repeal of 0bamacare ?
How much democrat support would they get and would it lead to a compromise that is just another delay, which would allow dems some cover in their reelection efforts ?
This is going to get very interesting.
Death Row Inmate: “So, what’s the word?”
Warden: “Bad news and good news.”
Death Row Inmate: “Give me the bad news.”
Warden: “The appeals court rejected the appeal.”
Death Row Inmate: “Oh my God! Well, okay, what’s the good news?”
Warden: “The Governor stayed your execution by one day.”
The promise was "you can keep it, period!" Not, "you can keep it if you're in the 95% who won't lose it" or "you can keep it for one year", it was "you can keep it", unequivocally, as he stated last night.
If we let him get by with just postponing actualization of the lie, we deserve the consequences!!!
Wow! When I first read this I thought it said DFECATIONS. I wondered how the government was going limit that and only for Dems. Of course most of them are full of s... already!
Sorry misspelled it. DEFECATIONS
Who knew?
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