Thursday, November 14, 2013

Dictator Obama

NBC is reporting that President Obama will announce this morning that people who have had their health insurance policies cancelled because of Obamacare will now be allowed to renew their old policies.

This, of course, means that Obama is ordering insurance companies to honor terms of an old contract, whether they want to or not.

Heil Obama!

UPDATE

Details on Obama's new plan are here.


14 comments:

  1. I'm not sure exactly what "allowed to renew" really means. Obamacare can't exist if only the sickest patients sign up for it, while healthy ones keep their cheaper policies. He can't order insurance companies to do anything as they will simply refuse. He can make cheap, high deductible policies 'legal' again, but insurance companies wont offer them, not at their old prices, anyway.

    In other words, he wants to shift the blame from himself unto the evil insurance companies for the policy cancellations.

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    1. Which should rather show that health insurance revolving doors largely wrote the law, precisely to get higher inflows and revenue. They won't let that go. But then again you're right and they have in fact cut their nose to spite their face. Wait for it... single payer is on its way.

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  2. Well, considering the $205 Billion annual windfall the insurance companies were/are going to get, this is their own doing as well. Considering people are going to jail or are willing to risk it to produce information, I care not about these insurance companies' demise or being harassed by Obama. This is what happens when you go with the program or, in the case of these companies, deal with the devil.

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  3. We are getting closer to an executive order for single payer. I think there's a good chance for that happening in light of the Obamacare fiasco.

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    1. No they can't afford that, it would blow a hole clean through the head of treasury finances meaning less for boondoggles of all sorts.
      You can have a single payer system only if you have dozens of workers being taxed for every one sickie/oldster. Will end up being bits of of Barrycare grafted onto existing system. Which bits are anybodys guess.

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    2. Couldn't they accompany a single-payer system with price controls? Gov will pay for any health care you like, just put your name on the waiting list while supply dries up completely. In other words, the usual price-fixing end game.

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    3. Exactly, Timothy, price controls are the only way single payer can work. The mechanism is already in place with CMS and their RVRBS schema, which is mandatory and non-negotiable for any provider accepting Medicare payments today.

      Just as the IRS was in place and ready to be redeployed after the 16th Amendment's ratification, CMS is ready to implement single payer if called upon. This is also the entity charged with implementing the Meaningful Use initiative. Its tentacles are fully entwined in our healthcare system already.

      A sceptical person might wonder how much of their healthcare.gov rollout management can be attributed to something other than incompetence.

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    4. i don't agree, in other parts of the world with single payer health system the 'death panels" have come about as the only way of controlling costs with the explosion of the oldsters/sickies. It's loathed in those countries but nobody mentions getting rid because its 'free' still. You couldn't go from the provision of services like what happens in the US now to that given out by a 'health board' like in Britain or New Zealand

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    5. Heath, the "death panels" are an artifact of price controls. They're needed as a means to ration care, which is necessary due the shortage of providers and beds which in turn is the inexorable result of price controls. This is why you don't see evidence of death panels in the early days of the NHS.

      Britain has had a chronic physician shortage for over 20 years. Combine this with an aging population and the results are tragic but inevitable.

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  4. Why hasn't any congress-sheeple filed articles of impeachment against the Dear Leader? Are they ALL being stifled by NSA dirt?

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  5. Did Emperor Cnut address the tide issue at all?

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  6. oh one other thing, if you can keep your existing policy at the current price presumably, then what happens to the minimum standards of a policy under Barrycare? and should you have to pick up insurance if you don't at moment or even pay a fee for that privilege? this backtrack might doom the whole thing

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  7. Will those people have to prove that their policies were cut because of Obamacare?

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  8. Apparently not only is the Constitution a scrap of paper, so are the federal laws. What's next?

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