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Since those 34 states chose not to set up their own exchanges, the federal exchange becomes those states' exchanges de facto. You're jumping way ahead of yourself if you think otherwise.
It's only "all on the Democrats and President Obama" if you are willfully blind to the reality of the situation. Which one would be if they were entrenched partisans, rather than rational people assessing what's happening.
Oh, I'm sure insurance companies helped write some of the law, which is why I said they didn't pass it or sign it, but left out that they didn't write it. If Obama and the Democrats didn't like portions of what was written, then they should have taken it out of the law in the first place. Oh, that's right...they couldn't because they didn't read it!
Oh, I'm sure insurance companies helped write some of the law, which is why I said they didn't pass it or sign it, but left out that they didn't write it. If Obama and the Democrats didn't like portions of what was written, then they should have taken it out of the law in the first place. Oh, that's right...they couldn't because they didn't read it!
Still waiting for you to tell us the "minor changes" that insurance companies couldn't do for the "grandfathered" policies. Adding and losing policy holders? Check, they could do that. Make minor changes in language, prices, coverage? Check, they could do that, too. Change a policy from 80/20 to 70/30? Um, that's not a minor change.
Seems King Obama lied to his kool-aid drinkers that they would be able to keep their insurance.
I double the lame-stream media will report on it because they need to defend their king from any attack.
Still waiting for you to tell us the "minor changes" that insurance companies couldn't do for the "grandfathered" policies. Adding and losing policy holders? Check, they could do that. Make minor changes in language, prices, coverage? Check, they could do that, too. Change a policy from 80/20 to 70/30? Um, that's not a minor change.
Does not really matter does it. The president said if we liked our insurance we could keep it. Did not say if we liked it we could keep it with minor changes
How do you figure? Do you think cutting peoples hours are a benefit? Do you think increasing deductibles is a benefit? Do you think making people work part time, rather than full time employment is a benefit? Do you think increased taxes are now a benefit?When will you just give it up and admit THIS plan is destined to failure..
Agree.
Also, if the new policies are SO much better, as some on here have claimed, then why couldn't Obama sell that instead? Perhaps because the new policies are NOT better? I think the insanely high deductibles and reduced networks due to very low reimbursement rates both point to an insurance that is not so great.
Still waiting for you to tell us the "minor changes" that insurance companies couldn't do for the "grandfathered" policies. Adding and losing policy holders? Check, they could do that. Make minor changes in language, prices, coverage? Check, they could do that, too. Change a policy from 80/20 to 70/30? Um, that's not a minor change.
If you get a letter that your monthly premium is going up unless you change your deductible from $1,000 to $1,500, what choice do you have if you live paycheck to paycheck?
It's only "all on the Democrats and President Obama" if you are willfully blind to the reality of the situation. Which one would be if they were entrenched partisans, rather than rational people assessing what's happening.
No, a handful of indidividuals wrote the law, who had ties to the insurance industry.. The insurance industry didnt have some big meeting where they discussed writing the law to the benefit of the consumer or the citizens.. You should be smart enough to know that those involved, would have written the law, that would have made it more difficult for the COMPETITION, you know, the ones who didnt help write the law, to compete.. thus you end up with millions of policies being cancelled by insurance companies who had nothign to do with writing the bill.
Does not really matter does it. The president said if we liked our insurance we could keep it. Did not say if we liked it we could keep it with minor changes
Katy said the insurance companies couldn't make even minor changes to existing insurance policies if they wanted to grandfather them in.
The President isn't forcing insurance companies to choose to cancel policies rather than grandfather them in. The insurance companies even could make minor changes to those grandfathered policies. It is the INSURANCE companies that are choosing to cancel them.
And it matters because you are blaming the President for the choices made by insurance company management. The President isn't sitting in on the insurance companies' meetings where they are CHOOSING to cancel people's coverage. The President doesn't get to vote at their board meetings.
I can understand anger over the ACA. It's not a law I particularly like, either. I've said over and over that it fails to address the real problems. I don't think most Americans even understand the real problem of our out-of-control healthcare costs.
But in terms of insurance companies cancelling people's coverage. That's a choice that insurance companies are making. They have the luxury of blaming the ACA, but the ACA allows the insurance companies to grandfather in existing policies. The insurance companies are CHOOSING not to. And they are accountable for that choice.
If you get a letter that your monthly premium is going up unless you change your deductible from $1,000 to $1,500, what choice do you have if you live paycheck to paycheck?
You have the choice of shopping around.
Again, are you going to answer the question about minor changes?
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