After Obama’s latest move, why don’t we just call this what it is: A take over of the health insurance industry.
The Obama administration, in an 11th-hour change, announced significant exemptions for people who recently lost their insurance coverage and are struggling to get a new plan — drawing immediate criticism from the insurance industry and Republican lawmakers.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed the changes, which include letting those individuals skirt the law’s individual mandate, in a letter to senators. She said she would allow people who got cancellations and could not find affordable new coverage to qualify for a “hardship exemption” in order to avoid a penalty next year for not having insurance.
They–insurance companies–and we are being whipsawed by the whims of the ideologues running the failed ObamaCare program who are too afraid to look like the incompetents they are, so order the insurance companies to do their every bidding–regardless of how unlawful it is and how destabilizing it is to the industry and the American people.
Lets be honest here, ok? It’s hard to stand up for insurance companies, but when the government abuses them while at the same time scape goating them even as they have an eye toward extinguishing them altogether via single payer, you have to say something.
if you are right, he will be impeached. If you are wrong, he wont.
I am predicting he wont. You are always wrong, on every issue, every time. Give up. you lost your job Victoria because you are always wrong.
Harold, be careful. Santa might leave a lump of coal in your stocking.
Ah Harold,
Related to Harold Camping by any chance?!
You said, “if you are right, he will be impeached. If you are wrong, he wont.”
Wow thanks for your incredible insightful prediction, Harold, — “he won’t be impeached”?? Such a move would likely be unsuccessful given the time constraint of his remaining term and the current line up in the Senate. But one can always hope that such major problems are so easily resolved. Magnificent insight, stupendous intelligence, stellar whatever…??? Perhaps you should give up trying to impress with your demagoguery. The ultimate determinate of success will be the court of public opinion.
You asserted Victoria is “always wrong, on every issue, every time.” Personal attack. Nothing positive contributed. Do you have anything to contribute?
Recall Victoria’s blog posted on December 3, ObamaCare’s new, improved website COMPLAINTS, relaying complaints taken from the Obamacare website.
Seems she posted relevant news focusing upon an ongoing and repetitive news theme which is still making news headlines as evidenced by the following news story.
“Still, HealthCare.gov was down for part of the day Friday, as technicians attempted to fix an error that occurred Thursday night when the site was undergoing routine maintenance, officials explained.” and “However, several underlying problems persist, including the accuracy of the numbers and how many of those enrolled have in fact paid for their policies.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/21/more-last-minute-fixes-to-obamacare-to-avoid-net-loss-uninsured-americans-by/
And another recent news item on December 13 article in WSJ, “Errors Continue to Plague Government Health Site”
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304202204579256680760860664
Victoria accurately stated on November 15, “Oregon Insurance Commissioner: No OrBamaCare fix”,
“Confusing is an understatement. Cover Oregon–OrBamaCare–officials are currently presiding over the worst rollout in the country.”
Given the Oregon Live news (“Cover Oregon: If you don’t hear from us by Monday, seek coverage elsewhere”; http://www.oregonlive.com/finance/index.ssf/2013/12/cover_oregon_if_you_dont_hear.html#incart_m-rpt-2) that the State has told formerly insured Oregonians to get lost, the State has effectively assured that the coverage of those Oregonians will lapse on January 1. Governments’ responsibility for terminating the insurance of those formerly privately insured individuals subsequently to deny coverage borders on malice. Such State action or more perhaps more accurately inaction would certainly seem solidify Oregon’s position as the worst in the country.
And if you wish I will be happy to provide several more accurate posts regarding Obamacare aka ACA that have appeared in this column. But then I suspect you are uninterested in anything that factually refutes your all too familiar sounding talking points.
Interesting you would suggest Victoria wrong when in fact you by your response seemingly embrace and defend the incompetence displayed by policy and actions of Obama and Kitzhaber, who would seem the embodiment of the Peter Principle, rising to the level at which they can no longer display competence. Your heroes?
Incompetent management. Failed Policy. Failed Website. Several outright lies. Defend the issue Harold; defend the respective Administration. But then it is easy to see why you won’t. Perhaps that is why we can expect nothing more from you than to mimic and parrot the actions of your Democrat handlers — nothing more than name calling, inaccuracy, deception.
Thanks, Pete.