Few options for Obama to fix cancellations problemExactly!
One of the many reasons conservatives tried to stop ObamaCare before it was unleashed.
Posted on 11/10/2013 12:09:18 PM PST by tobyhill
resident Barack Obama says he'll do everything he can to help people coping with health insurance cancellations, but legally and practically his options appear limited.
That means the latest political problem engulfing Obama's health care overhaul may not be resolved quickly, cleanly or completely.
White House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday that the president has asked his team to look at administrative fixes to help people whose plans are being canceled as a result of new federal coverage rules. Obama, in an NBC interview Thursday, said "I am sorry" to people who are losing coverage and had relied on his assurances that if they liked their plan, they could keep it.
The focus appears to be on easing the impact for a specific group: people whose policies have been canceled and who don't qualify for tax credits to offset higher premiums. The administration has not settled on a particular fix and it's possible the final decision would apply to a broader group.
Still, a president can't just pick up the phone and order the Treasury to cut checks for people suffering from insurance premium sticker shock. Spending would have to be authorized by law.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
I really believe the whole intent was to force everyone into the exchanges. How will the ACA fund itself when everyone is either receiving free healthcare or subsidies?
Republicans already have a reputation from wresting victory from the jaws of defeat. Don't do it again, please.
Justice Roberts' next-to-last paragraph in his ruling on ACA reads:
"The Framers created a Federal Government of limited powers, and assigned to this Court the duty of enforcing those limits. The Court does so today. But the Court does not express any opinion on the wisdom of the Affordable Care Act. Under the Constitution, that judgment is reserved to the people." - Justice C. J. RobertsWhy not let "the People" decide on the law through the upcoming electoral process in 2014 and 2016, as that law was enacted and now impacts their lives, liberties, and property.
To "rescue" it is to prolong their misery and make its consequences to the elected representatives who voted for it lighter.
As for Landrieu and Hagan, "the People" of your states, as Hagan says, do deserve better than a government-imposed and taxpayer-funded collaboration between Democrats and insurance companies to come between themselves and their doctors and health care providers!
What the Senators really are saying is that the government must get its coercive "redistribution" mechanism working more efficiently than did the web site!
They know, as do their fellow Democrats, that the youthful victims may begin to see that the hand in their pockets is not their own voluntary charity, but that of the coercive hand of force.
There was, perhaps, an unintended, but telling, remark within the so-called statements of "apology" in the NBC interview this week.
With regard to Democratic "progressives'" intent with the so-called "Affordable" Care Act, the President claimed it was to cause people to choose its provisions:". . . because they want 'em, as opposed to because they're forced into it." - Barack Obama, NBC Interview, 11-07-13
The biggest lie of them all is this telling statement--else, why would there be a "penalty" (uh, a "tax," as Chief Justice Roberts calls it) for failure to participate??
Contrast Obama's statement with the honest wisdom of America's First President:
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like a fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." - George Washington
Youth of America, you were not asked, were you, if you "want" that added expense for insurance you probably will not need for several years? Bet you could use your earnings in those early years for getting your first apartment, your first car, etc., etc. But, no, you are being "forced" to use your hard-earned dollars to pay for other people's assorted unhealthy lifestyles, or the myriad of other "forced" coverages you don't need or want!
"However combinations or associations of [factions] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government - destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." - George Washington
Few options for Obama to fix cancellations problemExactly!
One of the many reasons conservatives tried to stop ObamaCare before it was unleashed.
The whole intent is to institute government-run health care.
BO didn’t say he would help.
He said he would “deal with” them.
Yup. Come hell or high water.
And all of the rest is BS.
NBC is still covering for the jug-eared Marxist. By law he couldn't exempt Congressional staffers but he did. By law he couldn't exempt unions but he did.
WTF? Such MSM idiocy. That's a ridiculous strawman.
The Prez simply needs to place a call to his HHS and tell them to change the HHS regulations that they wrote for the ACA, and simply allow everyone to grandfather their existing plans.
Aren't you supposed to get something for your tax money??
Stop. Reverse that. Thank you.
Obamacare: The buzzards continue to tear and shred the carcass.
He could just have the gubmint pick up the tab for the difference in price, essentially giving everyone a subsidy.
Why not? It’s “free money” and he really wants the gubmint to be the single payer anyway. And it’s not like Obama gives a rats about the Constitution or rule of law.
Why the heck are we focusing on Obama? Look at all the people whose policies have been cancelled and treatments suspended. Look at all the doctors who have lost their patient base.
There should be torches and pitchforks in DC right now. This is costing lives. And it has nothing to do with the website.
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-obamacare-rolloutweek-five.html
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