I’m gonna make this a quickie, gotta run soon. I’m sure you’ve read/heard about Barry’s Big Obamacare Fix
(WSJ) President Barack Obama said Thursday that insurers will be able to continue health-insurance coverage next year for current policyholders that otherwise would be canceled under the new health-care law.
The change marks a significant policy retreat by the president, one that he hopes will quell an intensifying protest over his faulty promise that Americans can keep their insurance plans under the new law.
This is only for one year. Doesn’t something happen in November next year? I personally think this is a Bad Idea for Obama and Dems, but, they’ve backed themselves into a corner. No one is really going to be able to get their plans back (Washington state has already said “we won’t comply” and insurance companies are saying this in unworkable), and those who haven’t been dropped will be dropped next fall, right in time for the 2014 mid-terms. It would have been better to take the pain now and hope for the best later. This just gives Republicans more talking points and attack points come 2014.
That said, one thing I noted over at Twitchy
Someone correct me of I’m wrong, but the ACA set out certain minimum coverages, but then left the actual details in the hands of the head of HHS. A lot of the cancellations are due to those rules. So it would seem Obama could do this.
So, Obama might actually have the power to do this, or, more correctly, his subordinate, HHS head Kathleen Sebelius. They would just need to change the rules, which they mostly set in the first place.
Today’s PC was all about Obama, and him thinking that he can fix everything with A Speech. He really couldn’t give a shit, excuse my language, if Dems are hurt nor if Americans are hurt. This is All About Obama.
