This is just an attempt to make the insurance companies deny coverage and make them the bad guys which will take the heat off the White Hut.
They will getaway with it too, if we don’t keep the public focused.
The Dems are masters at demonizing big business.
They will paint the insurance companies as greedy heartless ***holes even as they get rich robbing our grandchildren to pump up wall street.
That was my first thought when I heard his announcement. It also has the added benefit of giving the Dems one or two talking points.
Dems were getting slaughtered by the MSM. They had no talking-point rejoinders. Obama tried to give them one: I'm saying again---and I really mean it this time---you can keep it if you like it (with caveats).
Andy McCarthy: "Obama might as well just say: You can keep your BetaMax if you like it."
I have not heard ONE commentator or talking head point out that Obama just made another promise he knows he can't keep, BUT he does know that just by issuing his new edict, he can shift the blame and change the conversation. He had to do this in advance of the "you can keep it" bills in the House and Senate to keep control. Divine fiat trumps a new "corrective" ObamaCare law.
IMO, these bills are bad bills, but Obama is worried nevertheless. I agree with Levin:
Levin on Wednesday: "I have an idea....NOW is the time for the House to pass a bill defunding or repealing ObamaCare. NOW is the time to do it, that the American people have seen it, touched it, tasted it, and hate it.
It doesn't mean that Reid will bring it up for a vote, but at least this time it won't be a joke. This time it's not a prop....Lay it in the Senate and Reid will block it. And ram that damn thing down their throats every single day right up until election day" [min 24]
The Jonathan Adler article Rush cited: