Posted on 11/22/2013 4:14:48 PM PST by raptor22
ObamaCare: California's health insurance exchange has decided not to allow insurance plans that do not meet the law's standards, rejecting the president's attempt to rewrite the law through executive action.
Recognizing the impracticality and illegality of President Obama's proposed "fix" for insurance policies canceled due to the Affordable Care Act's coverage mandates, the board of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, voted 5-0 against extending the 1 million California health care plans that were dropped under the law.
The Golden State follows several other blue states — including New York, Washington, Rhode Island and Minnesota — that announced they won't go along with the administration's proposed solution. State insurance commissioners make it clear that just in practical terms the fix is unworkable in the time available.
Reality bites, as they say, and the reality is insurance companies that altered insurance plans and computer software in a long, Herculean effort to comply with the law can't restore the status quo in weeks just because the president pulls an Emily Litella and says "never mind," without a constitutional or legal leg to stand on.
Obama's fix allegedly lets insurance companies continue selling the same individual health insurance plans they sold before the law, but only to those who currently own such policies, and only for another year.
"There's no way to make the federal law work without this transition to ACA-compliant plans," Covered California board member Susan Kennedy said. "Delaying the transition isn't going to help anyone; it just delays the problems. I actually think that it's going to make a bad situation worse if we complicate it further."
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They need the money from those people to pay for millions of new Medicaid enrollees.
obama’a chickens are coming home to ROOST!!! Ain't that right Jeremiah?
I decided to reject the Idiot's attempt to rewrite laws through executive action for the first time ever, because I recognized how unpopular this legislation is and how futile his efforts are going to be ... and because I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid!
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Yahoo.com tried to spin how successful CA was able to sign up new applicants for ACA. Read the comments to the positive ACA article. Majority pooh pooh the article. Many were the ones who signed up and then found out how much it will cost them. CA are not happy. One CA wrote the following comment to the yahoo article that had me ROFLMAO -
“Just wanted to let you know - today I received my Fiscal Cliff Survival Pack from the White House. It contained a parachute, an ‘Obama Hope & Change’ bumper sticker, a ‘Bush’s Fault’ yard sign, a ‘Blame Boehner’ poster, a ‘Tax the Rich’ banner, an application for unemployment, an application for food stamps, a prayer rug, a letter of assignation of debt to my grandchildren and if that was not enough, there was a coupon for a machine that blows smoke up my #$%$ Everything was made in “China” and all directions were in Spanish. Keep an eye out. Yours should arrive soon!”
Does that count as Obama keeping his promise?
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