Posted on 10/31/2013 8:01:45 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
Health insurers would have to be brain dead not to this.
In other words, the insurers are doing their best to preserve their business while complying with the letter of the law. The fact that the law is so shoddy doesn’t even enter into the author’s brain - much less her unreal world.
Damn the free market and innovation!
Now where's my iPhone? I want to post an Instagram photo! And then I'm off to Starbucks!
I would assume these are the “Bad Apple” insurance companies.
OMG!! As if navigating the health insurance waters wasn’t tough enough....UGH!!!
Shirking their obligation? That sounds like something would have been shot for in the Gulag Archipelago.
That's been Osama Obama's strategy since,at least,the moment he filled out his application to Columbia.
“creative skirting” - isn’t that what strippers use?
Perhaps another story might have been titled, “Obama gets creative by giving ACA waivers to cronies who are shirking their responsibilities.” I doubt the author of this article will be writing that one, however.
I wish BC/BS would have given us the option of early renewal instead of canceling our policy effective Decembed 31 due to the onerous provisions of ObamaCare. The Dems and their apologists can spin this all they want. They can try to transfer blame to the insurance industry.
Yes, Americans have become colossally stupid. (Two terms of this idiot prove that.)
But they’re not quite that stupid. Not yet anyway. The Dems own this.
What if one becomes a resident of Puerto Rico?
What is so unfortunate about skirting socialized medicine and fascist government policies?
I wouldn’t pretend to be able to tell you.
My/our only hope is that “natural” capitalistic forces induce the admin to make changes and changes and changes...until the thing collapses.
My thinking has been twofold:
1: Since the promise was made that “you can keep...” there is (in my amateur legal opinion) an assertable claim of “detrimental reliance” eg; fraud, and thus an increase in healthcare expenses should be deductible against income taxes, provided one files a 4684 Casualty/Theft Loss. That really only helps those with enough income to itemize expenses (hasn’t been especially worth it in recent years, for many) and in any event only mitigates about 1/3rd the loss. By “loss” in this case I am referring to the theft of the delta increase in healthcare costs.
I am fairly sure Ms. Lerner would come out retirement to audit your ass if you or I tried this, but somebody should.
2: I wonder if an insurance-insurance industry could be brought into existence, in other words, a derivative market that would insure against catastrophic healthcare premia rises.
I will now shut my mouth and await the drone strike. Been nice knowing y’all.
It’s time for the entire medical industry and the American people not only to get creative, but also to ridicule the Alinsky-ites who are running the Federal sham show.
Terrific article, actually, except for the WHINE. I was wondering if insurers wouldn’t find their way around the mandates, and by golly, they have! Kudos to the free market. Kudos to We the People, Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Tar and feathers for the DC crowd.
What no maternity care for 55 year old men or women!
Voters need to know that the only way to escape the tyranny of Big Government running their family’s health care is to vote every Democrat out of office next year.
One Congress cannot bind another Congress. ObamaCare can be history in January 2015, after the 2014 elections, IF every GOP quisling also is voted out in the primaries and starch conservatives in the mold of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee win elections. Get to work, or don’t complain.
“Its time for the entire medical industry and the American people not only to get creative, but also to ridicule the Alinsky-ites who are running the Federal sham show.”
With respect, the creativity you refer to is not the remedy. The remedy is to comprehend the enormous edifice of institutionalized grift “the medical industry” as a government-sanctioned monopoly has shoved down the throats of Americans in terms of cost.
You or I can go to the Oklahoma Surgical Center and get a surgery for roughly ONE FIFTH the cost of same in a hospital. They take cash only, no insurance. You can’t pay, you don’t get. They post their rates.
Consider the following: What is the surgery co-pay under Medicare?
Ans: 20%. aka “ONE FIFTH”.
So the question arises, what is it that one gets from Medicare?
Ans: Absolutely nothing. Zero. The ONLY THING Medicare pays for is the artificially-inflated cost of healthcare. (I urge you/all to just allow that thought to sit in your brain for a minute) What difference does it make whether the 20% I pay goes for the co-pay under Medicare or goes to pay THE FULL COST of the surgery at the OKSC?
(I must credit Karl Denninger for this piece of insight)
None. There is no need for health insurance beyond catastrophic. There really isn’t. Pay for the damn doctor when you go see him/her for ordinary events, remove the administrative load of him/her filing insurance claims, eliminate sanctioned monopolies via the removal of CON (certificate of need) laws and the edifice collapses. The entire edifice is a fraud designed to enrich a government-sanctioned multi-dimensioned monopoly. You think the military-industrial complex is a big deal? The medical-industrial complex is bigger.
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