But it’s the law of the land and it cannot be stopped
Remember when delay was just crazy tea-bagger talk? Regardless, President Law-Breaker (hey, what’s one more?) has exceeded his authority on this one. He has required new action by insurers and is delaying it, hoping for it new legislation and not enforcing provisions of the current legislation. This is, basically, Obama unilaterally passing a law.
November 14th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
The idea that insurers, in mid-November, can suddenly reverse business plans in place for years and get 5 million+ cancelled policies back in place by the end of the year is worse than laughable. It’s madness.
November 14th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
That of course assumes that the insurance companies are willing to play scapegoat for tue 0man. Which I am quite sure they are not and will do the only sensible thing and tell him to get bent, preferably through their lawyers. This particular bit of desperate posturing makes me think that the whitehouse’s internal polling is even worse than what publicly available poll data is and they ate running scared trying to stop the bleeding and save thir one dubious achievement.
November 14th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
An insurance industry insider told me “Your post is exactly what we were just talking about. The magnitude is staggering.”
November 14th, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Glorious Leader has proclaimed!
What exactly he proclaimed will be clarified later depending on how the polls go…
Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws!
November 14th, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Playing along, ignoring that he has no real authority to do this, and pretending that it’s even possible, this would mean the next round of cancellation notices are hitting people’s mailboxes the month before mid-terms. The only thing I can figure is that the Democrats assume that if they can get this out of the spotlight now, over the ensuing year the GOP will find some way to blow the easy layup.
November 14th, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Congress made law. (POTUS happy)
Supreme Court upheld law. (POTUS very happy)
POTUS decides screw the law? (POTUS talked to Eric Holder?)
November 14th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
KsGunner: Unfortunately, that will play right into Obama’s hands, letting him point at the insurance companies while shouting “See! Teh ebil insurance companies don’t want you to have your cheaper plans back! It’s all the fault of those greedy capitalists! Single payer is the only way to keep costs under control!”
The fact that the alternative was both illegal and impossible will be buried by the propaganda machines, so that most voters won’t even know it.
November 14th, 2013 at 5:57 pm
Renewed for ONE year? He said you could keep your policy, PERIOD.
What is more, Obama ain’t no king. He cannot just wave his wand and the law governing this just disappears. Regulations have to be changed and that takes time.
Even Howard Dean, the super liberal, is saying it is not legal for him to do this.
So Obama is still a lying sack of you-know-what.
November 14th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Even if it were possible for the insurance industry to change course that quickly, it’s not, many state insurance laws would be broken in the process. It’s a real train wreck.
November 14th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
So it turns out that the people telling 0bama to get bent are both the insurance companies, and much more troubling for him is that state insurance commissioners are having none of it. See the story here: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/14/scapegoated-insurers-fire-back-at-obama-over-administrative-fix-youre-not-pinning-this-obamacare-mess-on-us/
November 14th, 2013 at 8:04 pm
My dick.
November 14th, 2013 at 8:04 pm
BTW Bammie, groid.
November 14th, 2013 at 8:50 pm