What Obama meant to say

[Danzig]

doing great. but it appears now that eric won't be home for christmas after all.

enjoy your time with your girl, it flies by. next thing you know, she's 23 and giving you fits-like mine is with me!

[Danzig]

http://news.msn.com/us/is-it-too-lat...care-plan-back


what an utter disaster. it's only getting worse, not better, with this aca mess that they've had four years to implement.

i hope no one with a soon to be cancelled plan is celebrating that they might be able to keep it. this stuff isn't exactly a light switch one can turn off and then back on.
let me tell you, it would take you less time to find a new plan than it will take to find out if you can keep your current one.
and every change made to the aca that takes away anything mandated only weakens the law and makes it that much harder for insurers to perform everything the government is asking of them. this house of cards is built upon a basic premise of everyone capable of buying to do so, and pay for every mandated bit of coverage (unlike these much lower cost plans now) but not all of those purchasing need or will use all these mandated items. but they'll pay for it, thus keeping the ship afloat.
again, as long as we deem healthcare a for profit business, you will run into schemes like this. it's ridiculous.
instead, they should have mandated catastrophic care, so that those emergencies would be covered, and allowed people to buy supplements. we should have instituted one hundred percent medicare, for everyone. it would have been a way to provide everyone with medical coverage, which is what they're trying to do now, without all the various and sundry rules, regs, exchanges, subsidies, info sharing, etc, etc-all while the insurers try to also keep shareholders happy and make some money.

[Danzig]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._rule_won.html


just read the above. so true, putting the insurers on the hot seat. i bet no one cancels the cancels.
why the hell would they?

and these oh so smart and clever pols didn't see this issue causing problems? c'mon man.

[bigrun]

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

lol

reminds me of a key and peele sketch

and i siad.........(looking all around)....biiiiitch

[Danzig]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...the_blame.html


i'm not sure how they can manage to shift blame to the insurance companies, after the govt. mandated what plans had to include. note in the last paragraph:

The insurance industry is hardly thrilled about President Obama’s proposal. In a meeting at the White House on Friday, 15 insurance industry representatives expressed concern that the extension could solve one problem while creating another by making it more difficult to get healthy, young people to sign up for health plans, which is considered essential to the law’s success, reports Bloomberg. Advocates for the insurance industry have also warned that “premiums could begin soaring in 2015” if those who were going to be joining Obamacare’s exchanges end up keeping substandard policies, notes Reuters.


of course it will alter their outlook on policies and premiums.
this law is going to be like whack a mole.

[Danzig]

d.c. insurance commissioner fired:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0c0_story.html


posting this because of some of the other info involved as well....

While the president’s plan sounded like a simple fix, it rattled the insurance industry, which had set prices for next year based on many of its products changing to comply with the health-care law. Allowing some plans to continue beyond Jan. 1 could also run afoul of provisions in laws passed by dozens of states and the District to implement the Affordable Care Act.


a statement issued by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that said the Obama order “threatens to undermine the new market, and may lead to higher premiums and market disruptions in 2014 and beyond.”

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by Danzig

d.c. insurance commissioner fired:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...0c0_story.html


posting this because of some of the other info involved as well....

While the president’s plan sounded like a simple fix, it rattled the insurance industry, which had set prices for next year based on many of its products changing to comply with the health-care law. Allowing some plans to continue beyond Jan. 1 could also run afoul of provisions in laws passed by dozens of states and the District to implement the Affordable Care Act.


a statement issued by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that said the Obama order “threatens to undermine the new market, and may lead to higher premiums and market disruptions in 2014 and beyond.”

Yep, he thought you could flip a switch with 6 weeks to go. Thoughtful.

[joeydb]

OK - he meant to say you can keep your plan until after the 2014 Midterm elections...???