Posted on 10/30/2013 4:29:42 PM PDT by mdittmar
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that "bad apple" insurance companies, not his signature healthcare law, are to blame for hundreds of thousands of people losing their coverage in the past few weeks.
As administration officials scrambled to fix technical problems on an online insurance marketplace that is central to the success of the Affordable Care Act, Obama blamed private insurers for a separate problem that has critics questioning his honesty.
The president has repeatedly promised that people who are happy with their health plans would not have to change coverage. But the termination of individual policies has given his Republican opponents scope to criticize the program they have tried to stop since its inception in Obama's first term.
Republicans' assertion that Obama had broken a major promise to the electorate was seen as potentially more damaging than the glitch-ridden website rollout on October 1
The law, known popularly as Obamacare, requires insurers to offer a higher level of coverage. Individuals who do not have policies that meet the new standards may see their policies canceled at the end of the year, or may find that the monthly payments are beyond what they can afford.
Speaking in Boston, Obama said those who are getting dropped will be able to find new options through the online insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, established under the 2010 law.
"Just shop around in the new marketplace," he said. "You're going to get a better deal."
He stressed that the law included a provision that allowed Americans to keep bare-bones plans created before the law was signed as long as insurers did not change or cancel them.
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Which insurance companies are the “bad apples”? The ones that Ø demanded they be quiet about customers losing their plans?
He’s blackmailing insurance CEOs to keep mum about the obamneycare fiasco, and in the same breath throws them under the bus. Way to sweet talk them into going along with your little cover up, obunghole.
Blue Cross is one of the bad apples, apparently. They dropped my plan.
We were never told that any of our insurance companies had to change their coverage as the government mandated. This is much different than this being just a tax matter.
We’ve had the Monroe Doctrine, the Bush Doctrine and now the Obama Doctrine. The Obama Doctrine: SODDI (Some Other Dude Did It).
So Blue Cross Blue Shield is a bad apple according to zero?
Pass the buck, Barry.
If you like your doctor, you can keep him. Period.
You're going to get a better deal.
why isn't anyone questioning this new claim?
The entire concept of “Free Enterprise” is the “Bad Apple” for these communists who believe in central state planning, such as that practiced by the late USSR.
Bokmark
Man this guy is a piece of work isn’t he?
Blame...blame ...blame....everyone else, but him.
He and his minions make up the rules, and then when the companies can’t meet the rules, they drop their customers. And it is their fault?
What a despicable bastard Obama is. He mischaratcterizes what the insurers did, and obfuscates what he said originally about one keeping one’s insurance if they liked it.
What this turd of a man so blatantly does is completely ignore the fact that the insurance that one had and liked would NO LONGER BE LEGAL under Obamacare, because they did not have the mandatory coverages that Obamacare demanded and that the policyholder did not want or need! So, by law the insurance that those policyholders liked and wanted to keep was no longer available under the requirements of Obamacare!
Does that a*****e ever tell the truth?
Al Reuters covering for His Imperial Highness.Again.
Now the Dems are trying say that those being drop by their insurance plan aren’t being “dropped” - they’re being “transitioned to another plan.” That’s like telling someone who is being evicted from their home that they’re being “transitioned to a new residence.”
What's the point of questioning statements coming from a congenital liar?
Of course it has nothing to do with the Obamacare LAW that HE signed.
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