…nevermindPosted on 11/15/2013 3:19:31 AM PST by markomalley
Not good enough.
That's the verdict from jittery House and Senate Democrats on the administrative fix President Obama proposed for his new health care law, which since its Oct. 1 kick off has led to the cancellation of millions of existing insurance plans that Obama claimed people would be allowed to keep.
Obama's proposed fix would allow insurers to reinstate for a year the policies they canceled because they didn't meet Obamacare's new stricter standards. Obama, who has resisted Republican efforts to alter his signature legislative achievement, proposed the fix after congressional Democrats focused on their 2014 re-election campaigns started to propose changes of their own to the Affordable Care Act.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who faces a tough re-election run next year and who has already proposed a similar reinstatement of the canceled policies, said Congress may have to go beyond what Obama proposes to ensure that people can keep the insurance as Obama and Democrats repeatedly promised them.
More than 5 million people have received cancellation notices from insurers who say their policies do not meet the requirements of the new health care law. Obama's proposal would permit insurers to continue to offer the old plans for the next year, but would not require them to do so.
Shortly after Obama announced a fix, a seventh Democrat, Sen. Joe Donnelly, of Indiana, signed on to Landrieu's "Keeping the Affordable Care Act Promise Act."
"There are bills like mine and others that really want to find a way to fix this and to keep the promise," Landrieu said Thursday after meeting with White House officials.
Sens. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who are all up for re-election next year, said Obama's proposal fell short. They want a two-year extension for cancelled policies.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Obama proposed "very constructive changes" for a law whose rollout was so rocky that it led to far more insurance cancellations than new enrollments in Obamacare's insurance exchanges.
"The current state of the system is absolutely unacceptable," Blumenthal said. "This is a start."
Senate Democrats were not fully satisfied with Obama's solution because they fear insurers will not re-offer the old plans, he said.
"I think there is a lot of support for additional changes that require legislation," Blumenthal said.
The Republican-led House on Friday will vote on a measure that would allow insurance companies to offer the cancelled plans not just to existing customers but new ones, too.
The Obama administration and Democratic leaders oppose the GOP legislation because they believe it would undermine the rest of the health care law by depriving the newly created insurance exchanges of younger, healthier enrollees.
House Democrats stopped short of fully endorsing the president's proposal.
They'll offer their own alternative to the GOP bill that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, "is complimentary to what the president has done."
Sen. Jim Moran, D-Va., said he was not confident Obama's fix would rescue Democrats from political peril in next year's mid-term elections.
But it's something, Moran said, "to get us through this week."
Moran, referring to the glitches and security problems that plague the healthcare.gov website, said Democrats are not "going to walk the plank on a situation that is irreparable."
Moran said he expects significant numbers of Democrats to back the Republican bill on Friday though the numbers will be fewer than if Obama had not announced his own fix.
"It's a vote of confidence, or no confidence, in the Affordable Care Act's ability to be implemented in a timely and effective fashion," Moran said of the House vote on the GOP bill.
All House Democrats will back the Pelosi alternative, he predicted.
"We express ourselves legislatively," Moran said, adding a veiled reference to Obama's 50-minute press conference announcing his administration's solution to fix the law. "We don't have the grandiose rhetoric other branches may have."
This is why, when someone says: “you have to approve it to find out what’s in it.”, you need to kick that biotch out of a leadership role right then and there, and take that document completely apart, sentence by sentence by sentence.
“...has led to the cancellation of millions of existing insurance plans that Obama claimed people would be allowed to keep.”
And if any of these ‘Rat bastards had actually READ the bill before voting on it, they would’ve known this was coming and could’ve spared us all the trouble.
They are so stupid, I would gladly suffer the indignity they’ve visited on us if it meant I could watch them suffer something even worse!!!
Time to break out the pitchforks and torches!!!
I submit that some of the democrat congress critters don’t understand what they read anyway.
The Democrats wouldn’t have had to worry about a fix if they had just listened to some common sense to begin with, but they were too busy sticking their head up Pelosi’s ass and Harry Reid’s ass to listen. Now they have a mess.
Their first move should be to impeach Obama, and censure Pelosi and Reid.
They have no one to blame but themselves.
(Sens. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who are all up for re-election next year, said Obama’s proposal fell short. They want a two-year extension for cancelled policies.))
Up next year and want a 2 year extension ............what a coincidence!
Kakistocracy
–noun,plural-cies.
government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
government by the most unscrupulous or unsuitable people, or a state governed by such people
Rule by the least-able or least-principled of citizens…a form of government in which the people least qualified to control the government are the people who control the government.
he didn’t propose a fix, he attempted to shift blame, It’s all a PR game now. Obama will need to get some photo ops and soundbites in front of audiences of adoring white and black women swooning and passing out cheering his every utterance as e blames the insurance companies for not breaking his law he’s been promoting the past five years.
The media could recover some of the damage it’s done to itself by actually covering this story and holding the politicians to account for what they did. but I’m not holding my breath..
You have to say that they are transparent.
Hey Democraps, remember the blue dogs? Obama loves you just as much.
I hope that LA voters remember that Fat Mary whored herself for money in exchange for her vote to destroy the health care system.
Does the opposition candidate have the cojones to nail her to the monstrosity?
Our Founders would be shooting by now!
Bandage== Sucking chest wound. Too little, too late. Obamacare and Obama is done—stick a fork in him. When he falls he will take many corrupt people with him. Watch as he may well try something—like martial law—or suspention of the constution—or rule by decree. He’s like Cromwell without the leadership skills, Mussolini without the confidence, Juan without Evita Peron. His fall from grace will become ugly.
All Obumbles did in his CMB* speech yesterday was try to shift the blame for the millions of canceled policies to the health care commissions of the 50 states and the health insurance companies. Anyone who didn’t catch on to that liar’s tricks by now deserves to be fooled.
*(Cover My Butt)
“I submit that some of the democrat congress critters don’t understand what they read anyway.”
Proof of your statement would be this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG958lZ1KI
I am convinced half of them can't read. Take NC's own Senator Dip$%^& Kay Hagan.
I don’t think it’s actually possible to understand the bill with a straight reading. It refers to all sorts of other legislation and regulations and subparagraph x section 3 etc.
Rangel even said there’s no way to read it and understand it.
The website violates previous HIPAA legislation,
and there’s no way to bring it into compliance.
…nevermind
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