Posted on 03/04/2014 6:38:14 AM PST by cotton1706
in order to help(?) Democrats.
The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats.
As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.
Prolonging the “keep your plan” fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall.
Couple of things about this. Note that all of this assumes that the administration can get away with unilaterally and retroactively changing the health care law again: Barack Obama is riding the GOP’s quite understandable reluctance to impeach him right into the ground*.
First off: hey, remember when the Democrats were all absolutely certain that Obamacare was going to lock in the American voting public for a generation**?
Second: will something like this even work as a blatant political ploy when everybody reports it as being a blatant political ploy? Don’t be so quick to say ‘yes:’ this administration isn’t actually very good at this.
Third: let us assume, for the moment, that insurers can go along with this scheme (and that it will actually happen). The basic result? …Increased uncertainty. The brutal truth of the matter is that some very unpleasant things are going to happen to people’s healthcare, and that these unpleasant things have been mandated by law. The Democrats would not expect organizations engaged in any other activities to properly function under a regime where they knew that they would be hammered, just not when: why do they expect businesses to operate differently?
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Has anyone kept a list of all the delays?
Obama scoffed at such concerns; he told Berry, “Well, the big difference here is you’ve got me.”
SO MUCH FOR O'S EGOTISM 2010 Republicans went on to win 63 House seats and six Senate seats.....the largest swing to Repubs in the House since 1938.
So Obama was right---the difference was him. ROTFL.
On to 2014.
Republicans should be demanding they implement this thing fully BEFORE the next elections
So much for that phrase Nero liked to use last fall when they were debating funding the plan...
“it’s settled law, approved by congress, Signed by me and decided by the courts.”
How do you become Amish? They are exempt from Obamacare...
(also muslims are exempt)
Yep. The certainly earn the name Stupid Party. But yet they’ll attack our own Ted Cruz. They make me sick.
It takes at least 6-8 months to come up with the new plans AND have them approved, by the state and federal oversight groups.
A broker told me this when we went to shop small group insurance for our company's renewal.
The old policies are gone. The insurance companies no longer have the plans that we all liked, gone, poof, like a breath on the wind... hell the plans are Keyser Soze.
“Seems like this is unconstitutional.”
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Yes it does, now please list all the recent government actions that DO NOT violate the constitution, please. I mean for real, not just things that some jackass court decision allowed. I have read the constitution and I am convinced that a strict reading of it would put an end to ninety percent of what the federal government does in this country. To claim, as the courts do, that all of this meets the test is to say that the founders spent months working out a constitution and then threw in a couple of catchall phrases that amount to, “Oh, hell, this is too much trouble, forget all the rest of it and just do whatever you can get away with.”
I heard about this one on the radio a couple of weeks back, it’s very similar.
http://www.libertyhealthshare.org/
I’m leaning toward it, should my company choose not to renew.
“The Democrats would not expect organizations engaged in any other activities to properly function under a regime where they knew that they would be hammered, just not when: why do they expect businesses to operate differently?...”
They don’t. They just don’t care if businesses get hammered if it helps them politically.
the last king that jerked the American people around the way obozo is now jerking us around was king George of England. Clear call for a repeat of history.
They are in on the game. The GOPe is perfectly fine with Obamacare as long as they hold the reins.
Well actually, they should start putting out many TV ads and radio ads about the deception of the dems.
"You don't have standing." Imagine if they applied this to murder, and removed the concept of 'attempted murder'.
Obama FORCES Obamacare law (Affordable Care Act) down our throats, without ONE Republican vote. NOW he keeps delaying its implementation.
You got exactly what you wanted and NOW you defy the constitution, by unilaterally changing the law you wanted.
Will our country survive this imbecile?
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