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Krauthammer: Insurance Companies Ruined By ObamaCare Will Need a Bailout Next Year
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Posted on 12/22/2013 9:22:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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1 posted on 12/22/2013 9:22:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Sue the feds for tortious interference with multiple contracts


2 posted on 12/22/2013 9:23:52 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Sub-Driver
As such, the additional cost to insurance companies though large may not be so burdensome that they need a bailout to survive.

Except they are guaranteed a bail-out by the law itself. The federal government is bound to cover 80% of any losses the insurance companies might experience in a given "risk pool".

3 posted on 12/22/2013 9:29:36 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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Krauthammer....tongue in cheek?.....Those Insurance companies who played this game with Obama....hoisted on their own petard? Answer is yes to both questions.

Obamacare/insurance has nothing to do with care or health.

4 posted on 12/22/2013 9:31:14 AM PST by yoe ( Defund Obamacare now — or risk voter backlash in 2014)
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To: okie01

Good catch. You are correct that the bailout is already codified into the law itself.


5 posted on 12/22/2013 9:31:24 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Sub-Driver

And all this because people were afraid to be labled as racist.


6 posted on 12/22/2013 9:32:12 AM PST by Paulie
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Everything Obama touches is destroyed.
7 posted on 12/22/2013 9:33:19 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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Why bail them out? They sold their souls to the facist Obama admin. They deserve nothing from us taxpayers and Obama deserves impeachment.

This is just not acceptable for America. Time to stand up in protest.


8 posted on 12/22/2013 9:33:29 AM PST by dforest
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So it seems no one should buy insurance since there is no penalty. Just buy it when you get sick. That is what will bankrupt the insurers.


9 posted on 12/22/2013 9:35:42 AM PST by Engineer1955
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F them.
They were hand in glove with Barky’s socialized medicine project.
10 posted on 12/22/2013 9:36:01 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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the overwhelming majority of ObamaCare enrollees are for Medicaid...

The basis for a bailout should already be in place... recall that $700 Billion switcheroo from Medicare to Medicaid?

11 posted on 12/22/2013 9:38:41 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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hopefully, there are enough insurers that don’t go bankrupt to avoid single-payer


12 posted on 12/22/2013 9:40:42 AM PST by dontreadthis
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To: C210N

The whole thing is unconstitutional, despite John Roberts. That us fact.


13 posted on 12/22/2013 9:47:31 AM PST by LALALAW (one of the asses who's sick of our "ruling" classes)
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To: Sub-Driver

How can the same Democrats who are willing to cut Veterans’ benefits to keep the U.S. debt from increasing, be willing now to send billions of dollars to health-insurance companies to bail them out?

The only solution to the ObamaCare disaster is repeal.

Maybe the Democrats would be more willing to agree to end ObamaCare if its repeal were presented in euphemisms with proven appeal to Democrats — for example, the ‘’Affordable Care Euthanasia Act,’’ or, if the repeal was presented in the first three months of 2014, ‘’The Affordable Care First-Trimester Termination Act.’’


14 posted on 12/22/2013 10:00:12 AM PST by Bluestocking
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And all this because people were afraid to be labled as racist.

Mega dittos on that!

And of course there is also the stupid idea that if it comes from the government it's free.

15 posted on 12/22/2013 10:06:40 AM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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Wake up Krauthammer! The insurance companies were told long ago that they would be “covered” financially for any unforeseen “costs” that may arise from ObamaCare. They are in bed with Obama on this every bit as much as the media is. For them to say anything else is pure theater.


16 posted on 12/22/2013 10:15:15 AM PST by TruthBeforeAll
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ObamaCare should have been tested on politicians before being released to the general population.


17 posted on 12/22/2013 10:19:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all my fellow Americans. "Whatever" to everybody else!)
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I'm done with bailouts. Let them go under. There isn't an insurance company that has ever treated me or my family fairly.

Screw 'em.

18 posted on 12/22/2013 10:20:49 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I think Harry Reid was a test case.


19 posted on 12/22/2013 10:26:05 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Sub-Driver

Rush Limbaugh called this years ago


20 posted on 12/22/2013 10:27:13 AM PST by Rock Eye Jack
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