It's not Obamacare, it's business ("Big Insurance" tries new technique to sell Obamacare scam)

politico ^ | 11/26/2013 | By KYLE CHENEY and PAIGE WINFIELD CUNNINGHAM

[tobyhill]

Insurance companies are ready to unleash an expensive PR blitz to get 7 million new customers once HealthCare.gov is fixed.

But don’t expect them to sell “Obamacare.”

Big insurers and the stock analysts that track them say that once the White House is sure its enrollment website is working, the companies will barrage the airwaves with messages encouraging people to join new health insurance exchanges, either by signing up directly with insurers or by giving the website another shot.

The strategy makes sense: “Obamacare” polls terribly with Americans, but the idea of affordable insurance is a hit. And for the insurance industry, the new health care law isn’t about politics — it’s business.

Already Kaiser Permanente has sent a letter to potential customers in the Washington area, touting the availability of federal subsidies and mentioning specific benefits and coverage options for “hassle-free coverage that won’t let you down.”

[AU72]

Get the website working and more people will see how crappy the offerings are.

[Cowboy Bob]

So, they’ve decided that they will have to lie to the public again...

[MissMagnolia]

Ok, so "Obamacare" doesn't poll so well any more .... let's call it "Democratcare" .... because they are the only ones who voted it into law.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m almost thinking that when we get into power we should put them out of business. Almost...

[longtermmemmory]

insurance companies WANT obamacare because it forces all to buy overpriced policies.

[Nervous Tick]

>> the idea of affordable insurance is a hit

Yeah, the *idea* of affordable insurance is popular.

The *reality* of Obamacare is a big hit too — on your finances.

That’s not going to be so popular — and all the clever ad blitzes in the world aren’t going to fix it.

[SoFloFreeper]

LOL! So now the insurance punks think THEY are not going to be stabbed in the back by Valerie and her Clown??

Hilarity ensues.

[SC_Pete]

This is fascism: crony capitalists using the government to squash competition and to mandate sales. It is an outrage.

[tobyhill]

I thought about that. We always need more competition so we should bust them up and force them to compete across state lines. Let a company like Walmart sell Health Insurance.

[petercooper]

Perfect!

[billhilly]

Obamacare is rat poison.

[billhilly]

Obamacare is rat poison.

[Shannon]

Well, either someone's on drugs or they need to be.

I mean, seriously, to say "but the idea of affordable insurance is a hit", give me a break. That doesn't apply to Obamacare never will. They can advertise it all day long. Once people look at the prices they'll see they're being lied to again. People will not buy garbage products and pay through the nose for them.

[John S Mosby]

Assuredly... since the mandatory coverage for care that is not needed or will ever be used is just ONE of the reasons the premiums are higher. Insurers make an assured margin by the very fact they know the insured will NEVER make a claim for the condition (ex: a male with maternity coverage or birth control pills). This is all front end loaded and a lie, worse than any used car salesman could position it.

This headline is, however, more signs of the desperation in the implementation.

[MissMagnolia]

Hmmm ..... hadn't thought of it in terms of 'Rat Poison before!

[for-q-clinton]

What the insurance companies are doing is targeting people that will get a subsidy. So it is “affordable”. They will take money from taxpayers and get paid. But it’s the taxpayer that gets screwed.

No way will people in their right mind sign up for full priced obamacare.

In Sweeden (I think that’s the country). They have a law that if you buy stolen goods you get to keep them. So property insurance over there for stuff is through the roof. The law of unintended consequences has a major effect when gov’t tries to make things “right”.

[John S Mosby]

Might add that Big Pharma will be getting into the act— watch for it. “Coverage” for ALL meds whether you need them or not, coupled with the “partnership” with gov health treatment guidelines provided by university/govt stooges in “research” who have their hands in both cookie jars.

And example is the major headline from Am. Heart Assn., that the “gurus” of cholesterol and heart attack prevention guidelines are “shocked” at the “overestimation” of heart attack 10 year risk supported supposedly by their drug trials. Just the start of the “adjustment” to a govt. standard of care— to assist the death panels. No longer a hope that good science will be done. And Pharma will have to react to keep up their sales— first dividend for their support of obamaumaocare. Idiots.
Here: http://www.ny1.com/content/lifestyles/health/198862/heart-health-calculator-may-overestimate-risks—doctors-say

[billhilly]

I believe it is of the slow release type, and may not be fully active until 2014.

[LibLieSlayer]

Polish, paint and pour Chanel No5 all over it... a turd is a turd.