Ace:
Several questions:
* If this policy of Maximum Cancellations is bad policy now, and represents, as the New York Times so delicately called an “incorrect promise,” why is it any more palatable after the mid-term elections?
* Are insurers even interested in offering these policies given the other strictures of Obamacare? Bear in mind, they cannot charge the healthy any less than the desperately sick. So they, like Obama, need healthier people in these high-risk pools. (Obamacare essentially puts the entire country into a high-risk pool.)
So the insurance companies can offer these policies again… and the effect, I’m pretty sure, will be to drastically increase their own downside risk when they insure the uninsurable, and have fewer healthier people to tax to pay for the uninsurable.
So Obama
may becertainly is attempting to engineer a situation in which he offers an odious, destructive deal to insurance companies, so that when they balk, he can say, “See? This is why we need Obamacare, and none of this is my fault.”* People ask, “What about policies that are no longer offered because the insurer left the market due to Obamacare?” This could be fixed by permitting another company to offer substantially the same policy as the policyowner once owned. But as Obama doesn’t really want to “fix” this problem at all, he won’t do that. He’ll pretend it didn’t occur to him.
He still wants the Maximum number of Cancellations possible. His goal hasn’t changed, just his temporary tactics.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Nancy Pelosi, Super-Genius and Policy Wonk, will be offering her own “fix” to compete with the Upton bill.
Nakedly Political.
This is only to put some pain off until after the 2014 elections.
Obama needs Dems.
Obama is also saying that O’care will use “enforcement discretion” to allow illegal health insurance plans to be able to still be sold.
In other words Obama will not enforce the penalty on individuals for not having eligible health insurance plans and they’ll allow the insurance companies to still sell so-called bad plans — plans they technically can’t sell under Obamacare.
Sort of like how he’ll ”protect the border.”
So when Cruz and the Tea Party were trying to stop obamacare…that was cynical and evil.
Now that the hard economic consequences of a national socialist nightmare are threatening democrat politicians, it is OK to delay further economic disaster from obamacare….but only until after the 2014 elections.
Again – no democrat…no leftist…no “progressive” can EVER be trusted. They act as they do SOLELY to amass and centralize political power to themselves, not for the good of the country.
It’s the Lucy and the football president and we’re Charlie Brown.
What I found so hard to believe or understand is Obama’s total lack of curiosity. He claims he did not know the website was so unusable prior to launch. So for his signature law, one that changes about 20 per cent of the economy, that will affect everyone who is not on medicare, he has zero interest or curiosity in seeing the main portal everyone will use to access the new program.
He had time to run off to make speeches and play a lot of golf, but never once to sit down to see if this thing works. No one was accountable.
Not once does he ask to be shown how it works, to see the trial templates working. To sit down as any person would do and point, click and enter information. He has no idea how bad it is going. No one apparently tells him it’s broken either. And he never has any thought to ask to see it or inquire about it. What kind of manager would be this much of a blind fool? In the private sector that person would be fired so fast they’d be home before the first coffee break.
And we were told this was the highest IQ person we’ve ever had in the white house. Smartest of all with a crack team of experts.
The jokes on us. Thanks libs. You really know how to pick them.