this could very well be tomorrows headline... damn
Posted on 12/14/2013 7:49:33 AM PST by John Semmens
While the Government continues to struggle with what seem to be insurmountable problems with the Affordable Care Act's implementation, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged insurers to “cover whoever claims to have insurance.”
“We fully understand that under normal conditions insurance isn't effective until the insured has paid a premium for coverage,” Sebelius said. “However, we aren't dealing with normal conditions. Many who have tried to sign up for insurance haven't been successful. For many of those who have been told they're signed up our system hasn't been able to properly bill them. Some have assumed that the President's Executive Order saying they could keep their old insurance means they're automatically covered. And a distressingly large number of people seem to think that health care is, like the 'Obama phone,' free.”
“Honestly, it's a total mess,” the Secretary continued. “We're asking the insurance industry to just pay whatever charges come across their desks until we get it all sorted out. We consider it part of their patriotic duty.”
Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of Americas Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), is decidedly unenthusiastic about Sebelius' request calling it “an invitation to fiscal insolvency. The whole premise of insurance is that everyone pays a premium to cover contingencies that may occur in the future. It doesn't work if we let people wait until the contingency occurs before they pay.”
Sebelius tried to allay industry concerns by reminding Ms. Ignagni that “the President has promised that any losses insurers may incur as a result of a proactive stance of covering whatever claims are submitted will be reimbursed, no questions asked.”
Ironically, on the same day that Sebelius was endeavoring to entice industry compliance with this promise, politifact.com announced that President Obama won 2013's award for the biggest lie of the year for reassuring people that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it, period.”
In related news, Sebelius asked her Department's Inspector General to investigate “the colossal failure of the website. We need to find out who authorized the extraordinarily expensive, yet massively malfunctioning programming. Who chose the contractor? Who oversaw the work? Who approved payments without verifying that the work was satisfactory? I am both angry and mystified as to how this could have happened.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/146931-2013-12-13-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-december-15-2013.htm
I totally understand this is satire, but I cannot help from equating this with current practice in any voting precinct where voting authorities are forced to accept provisional ballots claiming the right to vote, even for an effing illegal alien so clearly criminal.
this could very well be tomorrows headline... damn
Obviously the sign of good satire...But not a good sign for our reality.
What could go wrong?
The Zero’s word is good, it must be true.
Please, do not give that ignorant s*** any ideas.
Satire for us, but uber intellectual reasoning for your typical marshmallow-major lib.
The results would be like the recent food stamp fiasco at Wal Mart.
Obamacare - Get used to dying.
Good one
The only reason this is satire (at least for now) is because the Obama administration hadn’t thought of this yet.
Too close to what may happen...
And we know this is coming.... Tell me, are you actually a clairvoyant, or have you developed a Time Machine?
Scary, man. Scary.
FR has to be good “satire prep” ;-) It is inevitable that they will “do something” when people start turning up for treatments and care at doctors offices and hospitals only to find they have no insurance. As I posted the other day, I wouldn’t be surprised if the feds just step in with some illegal executive order that says “send the bill to us”.
Your report is not satire, John. Have you seen this?
That is 100% correct. We're dealing with a government program. Someone once said, "a camel is a horse designed by committee". That needs to be modified to,"a dead camel is a horse designed by the government."
That is 100% correct. We're dealing with a government program. Someone once said, "a camel is a horse designed by committee". That needs to be modified to,"a dead camel is a horse designed by the government."
The patriotic thing for Sibelius to do is to resign.
***“Honestly, it’s a total mess,” the Secretary continued.***
When people preface a statement with ‘honestly’, you can be sure their normal discourse is dishonest or, in this administration’s case, out and out lying.
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