Posted on 11/16/2013 8:57:16 AM PST by Hojczyk
Is the president’s Obamacare “fix” part of the Obama administration’s pattern of deceit or a product of its frequent delusion?
A cursory discussion with almost anyone who knows anything about the insurance business would have alerted the president to the fact that his proposal is unworkable. The initial take from experts on both the right and the left is that the president did not fix anything yesterday. Insurance industry experts agree that the very idea that canceled health policies can be renewed or extended for one year is laughable —
especially with the cumbersome rules that would have to accompany any such temporary reinstatements or extensions. One must assume the White House consulted experts before President Obama announced his plan. So we can rule out delusion. Surely this was an informed decision … right?
Meanwhile, this is the administration that felt compelled to affirmatively announce twice on camera in the past week that they are “not stupid.” Well, if Team Obama is so certain they aren’t stupid, maybe they think we are all the stupid ones. Or, maybe the president thinks he can sell this to the American people — deceiving them at least until after the 2014 elections.
But the tide has not shifted: Democrats could soon conclude that blaming Republicans for depriving 48+ million Americans of health care is better than having 114+ million American households furious at your meddling with their health insurance and ridiculing your hallmark accomplishment. The big punt is still possible. There is a chance Obamacare could be repealed in a bipartisan vote.
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I am not so sure the GOPe is all that invested or excited about being in charge. Being the party out of power allows them to more easily escape accountability, and to snipe at the majority/controlling party.
And they are still members of the cool kids club.
“So we can rule out delusion”
No, you can’t!
No one wants to be in charge of this…the insurers should have said no…we have a contract…I think they will go for single payer in about a month…and blame it all on the RINOS..
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When you lose Walter Cronkite, strike that - When you lose the Washington Post ...
Well put.
No “free stuff” from the government is ever recinded by voters. They always demand more funding for it.
The 2014 election mantra will be: “The Republicans want to cut your healthcare!”
But now, one party has played with their lives and livelihoods, and if those people are made aware of it, I hope that many will be propelled out of their apolitical slumber.
In the same way, we will have to convince many people who live their lives conservatively but have always voted Dem out of habit or loyalty that it is time to "hold their nose" and do the right thing for themselves and the country.
I disagree with you and the author. This is why.
Fed Register/Vol. 75, No. 116/Thu, June 17, 2010/ 34553 (10s of millions will lose empl insurance)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3088618/posts
Top of Page 34,553
TABLE 3—ESTIMATES OF THE CUMULATIVE PERCENTAGE OF EMPLOYER PLANS RELINQUISHING THEIR GRANDFATHERED STATUS, 2011–2013
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“Under this assumption, the Departments’ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013. The low-end estimates are for 49 percent and 34 percent of small and large employer plans, respectively, to have relinquished grandfather status, and the high-end estimates are 80 percent and 64 percent, respectively.”
If nothing changes, next year at this time 10’s of millions will have lost their insurance. This was known since June, 2010. These estimates are from the Treasury. People are going to be pissed. Pissed like you have never seen before. I'm one of those people. I have great insurance and I may lose it.
Every republican running in 2014 needs to emphasize that Obamacare has just begun. The employer mandate was delayed until after the election, and will cancel far more policies than have already been cancelled.
Nope. Just something that popped into the lizard Queen's head.
I have great insurance - Cigna - and am losing it to Anthem BC, which from all accounts I’ve heard is awful.
President Obama announced his plan.
The cartoon channel must have added a new line up.
And all of these people will be good Democratic voters for the rest of their lives.
You might be right but there is also a chance that finding a doctor who will see you or see you 12 months from now will be an issue. Emergency rooms might still be full of those who can’t find a doctor who will take them. I don’t see a mass of people moving from emergency rooms to doctors they can’t see. It’ll remain to be an issue as thousands complain that they can’t get medical care. This isn’t likely to benefit the progressives.
It was fixed as far as PELOSI and the PHONE RECIPIENT CROWD are concerned. Come on man.
Dark “days”? Let’s make it “decades”, instead, okay?
It’s simple: I said “Silly GOP” because they are focusing on EVERYTHING (website, cancellations) but the Medicaid angle. And that is the part of Obamacare that is DESIGNED to drive them into extinction.
M’Okay?
Dead? No. Democrats are coyotes, fire ants, roaches, rats, microbes. Adapt, survive, reproduce, infect.
The Winners Of Life's Lottery will have to cough up high premiums collected by the IRS and based on a sliding scale dependent on their "wealth".
Naturally, the "Poor" will get it for nothing. All they need do is continue to pay for it with their votes.
The Democrats have nothing to fear. With rampant voter fraud, millions of low-information voters and the support of a slavish media, the Democrats will keep the Senate next year and could very well take the House.
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