The President – along with everybody in his administration in any way connected to ObamaCare, and virtually every elected Democrat in Washington DC – knew in 2010 that millions of Americans would lose their then current health insurance coverage. They knew that the “grandfather clause” would mean at least half of those on individual or small group coverage would lose their policies and up to 70% of those on employer based group coverage would lose theirs as well.
Since 2010, President Obama and his enablers have been repeating the “If you like your policy you can keep it.” lie at every opportunity. They had to. If they’d told the truth and said, “Hey look we’re going to give you what we think is better coverage and it’s going to double your insurance premiums…” they’d have been tarred and feathered. They still should be.
Over the last couple of months, as the cancellation notices have started flooding mailboxes of individual and small group policy holders, there’s been an uprising. The peasants are revolting. They’re so revolting that the President has had to take steps to appear to care about them and their stupid junk policies issued by bad apple insurance companies, and he’s also been desperately looking for somebody else to blame for the peasants’ anguish. He thinks he got the job done this week.
President Obama relented to pressure from the public and his own party Thursday and changed one of the bedrock requirements of the new health-care law to fulfill his promise to allow people to keep theirinsurance plans if they want.
While the move was aimed at solving a problem that was threatening the president’s credibility and public faith in the law, it raised a slew of new questions, including whether insurers would adjust, whether millions of customers would pay higher premiums and whether states would make the fix available.
Earlier in the week the President admitted that buying health insurance is darn complicated. Heck of a revelation for a 52 year old man. He’s about to find out that buying a policy is nothing compared to forcing a change in policy offerings in all 57 states and he called a beer summit with state insurance commissioners to discuss the issue.
President Obama met with state insurance commissioners at the White House on Wednesday in an attempt to quell concerns over his plan to allow insurers to continue offering policies that do not meet ObamaCare’s requirements.
The insurance commissioners, tasked with setting minimum insurance standards within each state, have complained about the president’s executive order, arguing it injected chaos into their insurance markets.
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The commissioners, meanwhile, warned Obama that different rules for different policies could result in higher premiums for consumers.
The commissioners, meanwhile, warned Obama that different rules for different policies could result in higher premiums for consumers.
Oops, there’s those higher premiums again. Of course this time the fault will lie at the feet of the insurance commissioners.
After the beer summit there was lots of collegial talk by all, the President acknowledging that the states and the commissioners had an important and difficult job protecting their citizens and the commissioners thanking the President for his openness and willingness to cooperate with them. Or some crap like that.
Of course, just before the meeting, I’m sure all the insurance commissioners heard about William P. White who is the insurance commissioner of Washington DC. He created a stir last week when he did his job.
A day after he questioned President Obama’s decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation’s capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.
White was called into a meeting Friday afternoon with one of Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s (D) top deputies and told that the mayor “wants to go in a different direction,” White told The Washington Post on Saturday.
The mayor wants to go in a different direction. Yeah right. The mayor is dependent upon the good graces of Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats for nearly all of his operating budget.
It’s going to be interesting, because so far, just a couple of days into the mess, seven states have told Obama to take a hike, they’re going to follow the law and they’re not uncancelling policies. Racist conservatives who run states that have wanted to see our first African-American President fail are doing all they can to make that happen, even if they harm their citizens in the process.
New York, Washington State, Minnesota, Vermont, Massachusetts, and maybe California have either told the President to take a hike or are considering it – in the case of California. All of these racist, Rethuglican states… oh, wait a minute. Never mind.
The President’s got a problem. In his own house.
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