Gregory is actually asking ‘traditional’ journalistic questions of the BCBS guy. This spokesman for BC is in the Obama camp full bore, and illustrates the crony capitalism of the insurance industry.
This guy is as slick as Terri McAuliffe in his use of newspeak. Wow!
== Floridians’ insurance will be better and cheaper for a lot of customers.==
==a period of transition== while we teach them how much better off they will be under Obamacare==
What that lying assholll blue crossed freak was actually saying is that it’s only cheaper if you are on medicaid or have a regime friend of obama subsidy. Everyone else better bend over and lube up.
Patrick J. Geraghty, chairman and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, sounded like a typical Obama shill. This crony capitalism is truly frightening.
Most people seem to think that the insurance industry will be destroyed eventually by Obamacare and we will go into a single payer system--the objective all along.
I have no doubt that we are headed to a single payer system for everyone. We already have single payer for Medicaid (70 million people including those under the CHIPs program) and Medicare (47 million). Obamacare was projected to add 18 million more to Medicaid and with 10,000 people turning 65 every day for the next 20 years, Medicare numbers will double. Obamacare is the last piece of single payer health care.
But the private insurance companies will not be going away. 9 out of every 10 Medicare recipients have supplemental insurance. I can see people getting supplemental insurance to add to their Obamacare insurance. We will have a two tier system, a public and private one similar to what they have in Europe and every other country where they have single payer systems except for Canada and North Korea.
Obamacare is just another entitlement program that will add to the more than $70 trillion in unfunded liabilities. It will cost the taxpayers much more than projected. And it will give the government more control over our lives and the economy.
The Dems will not let Obamacare collapse nor will business, which wants to get decoupled from health care. Obama gave illegally big business a year's delay in paying the fines. The employer mandate could be delayed even further and the Reps will support it.