Posted on 11/15/2013 9:02:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A day after they were caught off guard by President Obama’s proposal to prevent cancellation of insurance policies for millions of Americans, top executives of some of the biggest insurance companies emerged from a meeting at the White House on Friday, expressing mixed feelings about whether the idea could work in every state.
The hastily called meeting was an attempt by the White House to address the growing frustration of the nation’s insurers over the administration’s fumbling of the health care law. It came just a day after the president announced on television that insurers could now continue coverage for people whose policies were being canceled because they did not meet the new law’s standards.
The cancellations had left the president vulnerable to assertions that he had gone back on an often-repeated promise that consumers could keep their current plans if they were happy with them....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It’s right out of Atlas Shrugged.
I wonder about the begging ...
he was telling them to disobey the law
How does he expect them to act?
did he give it to them in writing? Wouldn’t that be grounds for impeachment? (ordering them to disobey the law and guaranteeing them no consequences? or what)
“Try to imagine any previous chief executive doing this. Really try. “
Really, isn’t this the good ol’ fashioned Fascist economic system in action right here?
Wait, he made yesterday’s announcement without warning the ones that were going to do all the work and lose money on the deal. Gee, I’m shocked. What an idiot.
If the GOP is smart (they are lousy campaigners) they should make Ads showing real grannies, real cancer patients, real kids with serious diseases, etc being pushed off the cliff by Obamacare.
The Rats made a Ad about Paul Ryan pushing a fake granny off the cliff. Now the Rats are pushing real people off the insurance cliff.
If it works, Obama would still force people FTP replace there present insurance with High cost Obamacare insurance and get the insurance business to take the fall.
Overshadowed by hubris that even she could not fathom.
“We did everything Obama wanted, and this is the thanks we get,” said one high-ranking official in a state with its own exchange. “I can’t tell you how fed up we are.”
Delightful to read.
I can’t imagine it.
The lies and politics of this situation are making me sick.
(Now is a great time to admit I have no idea what BTTT means:)
Bump To The Top
You’re correct about Atlas, but think about the fact that Terry Gilliam couldn’t even imagine a level of Government dysfunction THIS bad when coming up with Brazil!
Obama forgot to add in his original statement:
"Once you comply with what I want - turn around, drop trou, and bend over. Don't worry - I'LL drive ... and BTW, YOU have to pay for the Vaseline ..."
Lol. The insurance industry must feel so used. Obama didn’t even stay the whole night. “I have golf in the morning.”
That a chief executive would even consider getting himself into this chaotic mess, much less attempting to "back out" of it after he had forced it on the people gives us an indication of how completely ill-equipped he is for the office of the president.
The fly in the ointment is the State Insurance Commissioners. They are not in on the scam. They are just innocent bystanders and are justifiably upset.
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