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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Obama Tosses Billions to Insurance Companies to Cover Up ObamaCare Losses
by Jammie
Gee, we thought ObamaCare was working so well?
The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its
signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer
dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage
through the Affordable Care Act lose money.
The move was buried in hundreds of pages of new regulations issued late
last week. It comes as part of an intensive administration effort to hold
down premium increases for next year, a top priority for the White House as
the rates will be announced ahead of this fall’s congressional elections.
We thought it was sacrilegious to play politics with people’s healthcare?
They continue to argue that most insurers shouldn’t need to
substantially increase premiums because safeguards in the healthcare law
will protect them over the next several years.
But the change in regulations essentially provides insurers with another
backup: If they keep rate increases modest over the next couple of years
but lose money, the administration will tap federal funds as needed to cover
shortfalls.
Although little noticed so far, the plan was already beginning to fuel a
new round of attacks Tuesday from the healthcare law’s critics.
“If conservatives want to stop the illegal Obamacare insurance bailout
before it starts they must start planning now,” wrote Conn Carroll, an
editor of the right-leaning news site Townhall.com.
A billion here a billion there, anything to avoid admitting this is a total
disaster.
Insurers around the country have started to file proposed 2015 premiums,
just as the midterm campaigns are heating up. Obamacare, as the law is
often called, remains a top campaign issue, and big premium increases in
states with tightly contested races could prove politically disastrous for
Democrats.
But we thought they were planning to run on it?
If rates go up dramatically, consumers may also turn away from insurance
marketplaces in some states, leading to their collapse.
The entire mess will collapse and we’ll all end up paying for it,
particularly galling for those who said this would never work and were
ignored. |
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