Great Pretender offers "solution" to the "keep your plan" fiasco

Hopefully, this fiasco will become and object lesson for many of those who mistakenly think the Federal Govt can micromanage every aspect of our lives and can just keep on magically giving everybody stuff.

As far as O's 'executive orders', to hell with them.

 

You're starting to sound like me now TND. Only I have a name for the "nameless, faceless Marxists masquerading as Democrats and socialists, manipulating it all from behind the scenes." I call them globalists. :smilewinkgrin:

 

So I presume the Republicans will hold his feet to the fire, stand up for the fact that the President cannot unilaterally change a law, maybe even start impeachment proceediings?

No?

Perhaps because once again they got played by Obama. What Republican is going to stand on principle to deny people their old health care insurance policies? Anyone?

 

It's just not as simple as allowing the insurance companies to issue old policies for one more year. There would have been increases with these old policies, they would have to be negotiated. The insurance companies did not spend any time on this, as they were ordered to scrap these old policies. So, this would take probably four or five months.

Problem is, next year they would have to cancel these same policies again, and folks once again will scream they were told they could keep their old policies.

Obama and the Democrats have created a real mess this time, and there is no easy fix.

 

Well, I sold insurance for 10 years, and one thing I know about insurance, it's not simple! Obama doesn't have a clue.

 

The insurance companies would be foolish to reissue the old policies, even if they could pull it off, they are just going to have to cancel them again next year and we will be back exactly where we are today.

The easiest fix is to issue new policies to these folks and subsidize the extra cost. This will cost billions, but it is the easy fix.

 

It is not easy to subsidize anything.

 

CBS just reported that Washington State's Insurance Commissioner said he will not allow previous policies to be restored.

So it is not just Republicans that are against this

It just not about Democrats also

But it is also about the insurance commissioners.

It turns out none of the blame will be placed on Republicans and most likely it will still fall on Obama.

 

Did anyone notice that while Obama said he would allow people to get their old plans back he said nothing about getting their old premiums back.

 

THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.

At a time when everyone else will be finding any possible negative point to sling at you, I just want you to know that I'm grateful. At a time that military retirees are finding out that their Tricare health insurance meets the minimum ACA requirements, but cuts their children off at age 23 instead of age 26 like you promised, it's reassuring to know that you're going to allow us to re-enroll in those cheaper insurance plans that satisfied our personal health care needs instead of the higher-priced plans that ensured we paid for additional coverage we don't need and will never use, in order to subsidize others who can't afford your higher-priced plans. Never mind that my cheaper rate insurance probably won't be sold back to me at the previously cheaper rate because the insurance industry had already made agreements with the healthcare industry and the cost of revising those agreements is causing everyone to wonder how they're going to do it, much less get it all approved by the regulatory agencies; we take comfort that because you've said it, you'll make it happen. Oh, and we'll just turn a blind eye to the fact that we can re-apply for our previously cheaper insurance, get it at most likely a higher rate (because any mandate you put out requiring insurance agencies to keep their previous rates will most likely cause them to go out of business, resulting in leaving us no choice but to go with the phenomenally higher ACA plans, or leave us without insurance--which we know you can't allow, because your whole goal was to ensure we ALL have health insurance)...but then turn around in a year and still have to enroll in an ACA-approved plan and pay up to ten times (or more) higher than our current plans.

Forget all that, Mr. President. I'm grateful that you and Michelle are so concerned about our health that I don't mind paying thousands more each year that I could have used to buy my kids Christmas presents, and I don't mind my kids eating that noxious garbage that's passing for lunches as schools try to meet Michelle's healthier kids initiatives. I know you only have our best interests at heart, and mean us no harm.

Thank you, Mr. President; I'd tell you to keep up the good work, but those folks you have in your administration keep mucking up all your good intentions, so I'll just say thanks, and keep trying!

 

"I don't mind my kids eating that noxious garbage that's passing for lunches as schools try to meet Michelle's healthier kids initiatives." Spose that is why he gets burgers every chance he gets .. not gunna eat no rabbit food.

 

WE LOVE BIG BROTHER! :love2::love2::love2::love2:

 

Here is something else most people don't realize:

Being a software engineer and working a contract for an insurance company, I know that a great deal of software had to either be retrofitted or re-programed because of the "affordable" Health Care Bill.

Now it will all have to be reversed for a year. Not an easy task and in some institutions an impossibilty.

HankD