President Barack Obama’s top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won’t tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law.
“There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to the insurance lobby.
“Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections,” Sebelius said. She warned that bad actors may be excluded from new health insurance markets that will open in 2014 under the law. They’d lose out on a big pool of customers, as many as 30 million people nationwide.
Now let me explain: the healthcare law mandates no preexisting conditions and a form of community rating. Whenever this has been tried in US states (WA, KY, MA) it has led to exploding insurance premiums because (of course) people, no longer needing insurance before they get sick, wait and therefore do not pay premiums into the system.
Ms. Sebelius is essentially saying: do not tell the American people that our irrational law is resulting in economic chaos. If you do, we will make sure you don't get any of the government gravy. Keep your mouth shut, help us deceive the American people until it's too late to reverse course and we'll make sure you get a big piece of the new pie.
Essentially conspiracy to bribe coupled with conspiracy to defraud coupled with extortion and intimidation. Chicago pols are destroying the integrity of Democrats nationwide. Even Kansas Democrats reputations are tanking. Not to mention their reputation for intelligence. These types of thuggish threats are normally made in private.
Obama is presiding over a mass die off of his own party. If the polls hold, perhaps the largest mass die off in the history of American politics. Brilliant. There's hope for change.
No comments:
Post a Comment