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HHS to insurers: Don't blame us for your rates
Yahoo ^ | 09/10/10 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

Posted on 09/10/2010 11:25:26 AM PDT by DFG

President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law.

"There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to the insurance lobby.

"Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections," Sebelius said. She warned that bad actors may be excluded from new health insurance markets that will open in 2014 under the law. They'd lose out on a big pool of customers, as many as 30 million people nationwide.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hhs; obamacare; sebelius
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Don't second guess Sebelius or you will be sent to a reeducation camp.
1 posted on 09/10/2010 11:25:28 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

“There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases,”


Uh, huh. You will do what we say and operate at a loss or....go to jail.


2 posted on 09/10/2010 11:28:29 AM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: DFG

“There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases,”

Ok, only in FASCIST NATIONS do you hear crap like from public officials, about PRIVATE Corporations.

WILL NO ONE DARE CALL IT WHAT IT IS??


3 posted on 09/10/2010 11:28:55 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: DFG
as many as 30 million people nationwide

where'd the other 18 million go ?
4 posted on 09/10/2010 11:29:15 AM PDT by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: DFG

angel of death bookmark.


5 posted on 09/10/2010 11:30:00 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: DFG

This is why the Dems were so bold in getting this done and done for good. They have a built-in “scapegoat” to cover for their purposeful wreck of the system. And much of the uninformed public will lap up the message of yet another “eeeeeeeevil industry”.


6 posted on 09/10/2010 11:30:34 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Part of that 9.5% that's really more like 20%, Let's call it what it is: The Great O-pression)
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To: DFG

“There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases,”

Laughable. You mean like congress raising taxes?


7 posted on 09/10/2010 11:32:45 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: DFG

How in the world can a health insurance company increase family coverage to include 26 year-old ‘children’ and not increase premiums?


8 posted on 09/10/2010 11:32:53 AM PDT by HarleyWoodrowMantz
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To: DFG

Can we send her off to wander in the desert or something?

She is an idiot.


9 posted on 09/10/2010 11:33:19 AM PDT by Adder (Note to self: 11-2-10 Take out the Trash!!!)
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To: stylin19a

I suppose they were just the extras for the crowd scene.


10 posted on 09/10/2010 11:35:08 AM PDT by Williford
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To: DFG

Lying, evil b*tch.


11 posted on 09/10/2010 11:37:05 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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“Where’d the other 18 million go ?”

I suppose they were just the extras for the crowd scene.


12 posted on 09/10/2010 11:37:14 AM PDT by Williford
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I found this article to be incredible. Insurers have to compete with one another, so it is flat out irrational to claim that they can just jack up rates and force consumers to swallow them without a _common_ underlying cause. That common cause is the government’s healthcare regulations and controls. Sebellius can threaten all she want, and all it will accomplish is the continuing erosion and destruction of our healthcare system. It won’t magically make an unprofitable business option profitable no matter how much she rants.


13 posted on 09/10/2010 12:00:29 PM PDT by Liberty1970 (http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lydiablievernicht)
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To: DFG

Sally Pipes
VIDEO: The Truth About ObamaCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCayRhRimg


14 posted on 09/10/2010 12:00:50 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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Wallnettoes, Kathleen! She possesses a Masters Degree with a concentration in Buffalo Scatology!

As do most politicians.


15 posted on 09/10/2010 12:01:25 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: DFG

How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion


16 posted on 09/10/2010 12:01:35 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: Liberty1970
Soon to be enacted: the "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule" and "The Equalization of Opportunity Bill".

Ayn Rand knew these guys.

17 posted on 09/10/2010 12:06:26 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Things will change after the revolution, but not before.)
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To: DFG

Dr. Ferris, please pick up the white courtesy phone.


18 posted on 09/10/2010 12:07:53 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

It’s weird/scary how demagogic and dictatorial these people are. It takes a real asshole to say something like this. People like her and her shit Plan aren’t above public rebuke.


19 posted on 09/10/2010 1:19:56 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: DFG

FUKS


20 posted on 09/10/2010 1:22:03 PM PDT by crosshairs (If I agreed with a liberal, then we would BOTH be wrong.)
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