Thursday, March 6, 2014

More ObamaCare Disaster

From Jamie Dupree: In yet another delay for part of the President's signature health law, the Obama Administration on Wednesday announced that consumers could hang on to health insurance policies that don't meet minimum coverage standards for another two years.
It wasn't even four months ago - in mid-November of 2013 - that President Obama had announced a "fix" to the problem of people having their health insurance suddenly canceled because of the health law's implementation, as consumers were given an extra year to keep that 'substandard' coverage.
But, without an additional extension, that would have meant a new round of canceled policies just before the 2014 elections in November - as this latest move buys the Obama Administration two more years.
Republicans blasted the move as pure politics and evidence that the health law is not functioning properly.
"What makes this latest delay so troubling is the fact that it was prompted not by the heartbreaking stories of millions of Americans but by the private pleadings of a handful of endangered Democrats," said Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, as a chorus of Republicans accused the White House of doing this to avoid political fallout in the 2014 mid-term elections.
"Nothing, however, can distract from the fact that the President blatantly broke his promise that ‘if you like your plan you can keep your plan,'" said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA).  http://www.wsbradio.com/weblogs/jamie-dupree/2014/mar/05/obama-health-law-fix-extended-2016/
This is just a political move by Obama to save some Senate and House seats.
What Obama ought to do is scrap the ObamaCare law and work with the people who cannot get health insurance.

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