Obama Announces Insured Can Keep Health Plans For One Year:

Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 6 months ago to Politics
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I knew this was coming. It will be wonderful cover for the Democrats running for re-election. Politics drive everything... common sense nothing...


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  • Posted by $ EloiseH 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am a financial services professional working with a number of small business owners. Business owners have no idea what to do. They want to be fair to their valued employees and employee benefits are one way they retain the best. Among many other problems with this law, it reduces the ability of employers to compete for the best workers by providing the best health insurance - tailored to their individual needs. What a disaster!
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  • Posted by 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello EloiseH,
    Foreseeable debacle... The Utopians never learn. Existence is not what it is. It is what they want it to be. What they seem to have learned from history, is that their predecessors must not have tried hard enough or thrown enough money at the problems. As if burning dollar bills could wrest the moon from the sky...
    Regards,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by $ EloiseH 10 years, 6 months ago
    This is too little too late. Between state insurance commissioners (who have the say over plans sold in their states) and the cumbersome process of sending a personalized letter to each policyholder outlining where their policy falls short of Obama's demands, the president is expecting insurance companies/state insurance commissioners to accomplish in a month when he and his minions could not accomplish in more than three years. The more they do the worse it gets. Shades of Atlas Shrugged. It's a lesson big gov't types never seem to learn.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 6 months ago
    Of course... because they are told that those in power are there for your good, and the good of all society, therefore they must be obeyed.

    It's a scam meant to lull sheep into the slaughter pens... and the sheep follow along willingly... so they can then keep it ensconsed into the law.

    In a year people will really be screwed, because, well, they were told they have a year, so now you HAVE to obey our mandates... Grrr...
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  • Posted by 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello Susanne,
    Yes. They must keep the sheople ignorant long enough to get through the next election cycle, or make it look like those in trouble politically tried to fix it. You can see it now... "We tried to get that promise honored, but we just didn't have the votes or the power to reverse what the insurance companies did (never mind the fact that they did our bidding) vote us back in; we'll fix it down the road with more subsidies so it won't hurt you." says the dozen or so Democrats in trouble....
    Ultimately the whole thing is likely to implode. The question is time... Of course this is mathematically and systematically, not politically. It is just preposterous that so many have to jump through hoops and now risk lack of insurance when they previously had what they were satisfied with...
    I fear that if enough cover is created for the Dem's in power to retain it long enough, the masses will give up and submit until the failures move the ball toward their ultimate goal... single payer...
    Grrr... indeed!
    Regards,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by dwcarmi 10 years, 6 months ago
    He's running scared. The little dictator is showing his true colors by stating that he will allow the insurance companies to reinstate their canceled policies for another year, like all he has to do is wave his magic wand and make all things better. I'm just sick of his bs.
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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's true some innocents wills suffer. But fewer will suffer than if Obamacare is left in place.

    If only people who voted for O-Bomb-Ya! were to suffer, there would be NO REASON to reverse Obamacare. Let them reap what they've sown.

    It is the willingness of the Demoncrats and Obama to hurt innocents that makes them despicable.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Isn't that outrageous? The bureaucrats can make law as easily as our president, neither of which are empowered legitimately to do so. This was never the intention of our founders and removes virtually all limits on abuse. It is a sad commentary on our present state of governance. It started long ago and gains steam with every usurpation.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What he is changing is a rule that the Health Secretary put in after the law was signed, so yeah, he should be free to change it.
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  • Posted by gbohnas 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We knew it would be horrible - we have lots of Libs in WA - they are all screaming their heads off because now, they realize, it's hitting their pocket books too. Our Medicaid is as high as Obamacare and people are just not signing up that will have to pay - they are taking their chances and just going to pay the "fee" and pay out of pocket. They don't realize they will be tracked down and, if you read the Act, can have their bank accounts drained to pay for insurance, whether they can afford it or not. Sucks.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello gbohnas,
    I hear you. This economy has forced me to put my business in standby mode for a while. We are operating with a skeleton crew. I am on strike, so to speak, regardless of my desires. My insurance has gone through the roof, though I haven't received a cancellation notice yet.
    I would like to say this is some kind of joke... but it isn't funny.
    O.A.
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  • Posted by gbohnas 10 years, 6 months ago
    We lost our business health plan - renewal for equivalent plan up 79% - may have to downsize to keep doors open. Affordable? WA State Insurance Commissioner says he's not changing any old policies - just suck up and pay up
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  • Posted by 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Greetings Just _Plain_ Bill,
    With this administration there is a plethora of questions and sophistry for answers.
    So much for transparency...
    Thank you for your input.
    O.A.
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  • Posted by Just_Plain_Bill 10 years, 6 months ago
    There are some serious questions involved with O'Bama's attempt to transfer the blame to others than himself
    1) Does he have the Constitutional authority to change the law as signed into effect? Ans NO
    2) Will Congress again turn a blind eye to this illegal behavior.
    3) Will the states allow the changes to be enacted
    4) Will the Insurance co's after months of preparation getting ready for this change?
    5) Can the Insurance Co's get the changes made in time?
    6) What impact will these reversals have on the premiums?
    7) What will the impact of managing 2 risk pools have on the program
    8) All of this for only a few months of relief Hmm is it only POLITICAL
    9) Will the voting public forgive & forget?
    10) This program rolled out as planned all was known ahead of time and BHO LIED LIED LIED What the Administration did was grossly underestimate the negative reaction
    Maybe finally Bye Bye BHO
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  • Posted by 10 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello BambiB,
    I appreciate your candor.
    As a strategy, ripping off that band-aid quickly and showing it for what it is sooner rather than later, has much merit. It is just a shame that innocents who didn't even support this monstrosity must suffer in the mean.
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 6 months ago
    This is where the Republicans should dig in their heels and refuse to budge one inch. The Demoncrats were willing to force a government shutdown because they were unwilling to negotiate any change whatsoever to Obamacare. They refused to delay it. Any bill coming out of the House delaying Obamacare should include MASSIVE spending cuts, tax cuts and complete elimination of the mandatory Obamacare insurance. Sure it will be DOA because Obama wants to expand taxes, add spending and ram Obamacare down our throats. But the Republicans can correctly say, "We don't want to postpone your Obamacare misery for a year just to win votes. We want to save you from Obamacare misery forever!"

    Having turned a deaf ear to the idea of delay, Demoncrats now want to delay it for the political expediency of Demoncrats who face the torches and pitchforks of voters who are being run over by Obamacare. If the Republicans are at all adroit in their handling of this situation, they should be able to hang the policy cancellation debacle, the utter incompetence and failure of the web site, the ridiculously low success rate of sign ups, the skyrocketing premiums AND the government shutdown on the Demoncrats (where blame properly belongs). The Republicans can say in all honesty that they went so far as to "shut down" the government in an effort to save the People from Obamacare - and the Demoncrats would not let them. Now the Demoncrats want to fool the American People by delaying the execution date by a year - so they can slip past the 2014 elections.
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  • Posted by brian 10 years, 6 months ago
    I think people are starting to see this for what it is: a Red Herring. Even my left wing friends on social media have stopped defending it. That's a serious sign of serious trouble. It will implode.
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  • Posted by Doorgod 10 years, 6 months ago
    Oh how gracious of you Barack. Just another year is all?....thought it was forever :( What are you going to take from us next....MY SANITY!!!...yes! yes! Sanity!!! We will take that!! PLEASE, Really?
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  • Posted by frenchrabbit 10 years, 6 months ago
    I would like to know when it became the right of the President to decide "HE" can simply change a law to suit "HIS" agenda or for any reason? A bill that is passed by Congress and signed into law by the President can not be changed at will just because a President finds it convenient to do so. The law is the law until it is changed by a vote of Congress or overturned,,,,,,,not the job of the President to decide!!!
    A President can NOT change any aspect of a law unilaterally.
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  • Posted by redoty09 10 years, 6 months ago
    According to the Constitution the government is supposed to promote the general welfare not provide it!
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  • Posted by redoty09 10 years, 6 months ago
    The ones that will fall for this are the brain washed Obama loving democrats and others that do not want to be called racist by not accepting his solution.
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