Nevada Says No To Obama

From the LVRJ: Nevada’s Insurance Division decided Wednesday that people whose health care insurance policies did not meet the standards of the federal Affordable Care Act cannot carry forward those policies for another year, as President Barack Obama had wanted.
Obama sought to use his “enforcement discretion” to allow people to renew policies that lack somebenefits mandated by the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. But after consulting with Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, the state Insurance Division decided that renewing these polices “would conflict with Nevada law and the Affordable Care Act.”
Nearly 25,000 Nevadans have received cancellation or non-renewal notices because their policies fall short of ACA standards.
The issue has become highly political as Republicans have accused the president of lying when he said that under Obamacare people would be able to keep their current policies if they liked them. Because of the issue, Obama’s popularity ratings have plunged to record lows.
A poll released Nov. 13 by the Quinnipac University Polling Institute found 54 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s performance in office, while only 39 percent approve of the job he is doing.

Gov. Brian Sandoval, who opposed Obama’s move to allow people to renew non-compliant insurance policies, said Wednesday that “The only way to fix the problems resulting form Obamacare is for Congress to change the law itself.”

Sandoval last week said Obamacare should be repealed or drastically modified. “The fact is, the president misled the American people when he promised they could keep their insurance if they liked it,” the governor said. “Furthermore, those in Congress who supported this law should have known that implementing these mandates would result in canceled policies. The very real and harmful consequences of this ill-conceived law are now being experienced by not just Nevadans, but people throughout the country.”  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevadans-not-allowed-carry-forward-non-compliant-health-insurance
The idea of saying "never mind" by Obama to the people who lost their insurance was just plain stupid and just political.
If Nevada would have allowed the old policies to be implemented, it would have caused chaos in the health insurance markets and it is doubtful any of the insurance companies would have offered the old plans anyways because the old plans would have been dropped next year.
It once again shows that Obama believes in theories and has no clue how the real world operates.