Health Care

House passes bill allowing insurance companies to keep and sell existing policies that don't meet Obamacare requirements for another year. Thirty-nine democrats joined Republicans supporting the bill, but this bill is a political stunt. Why would insurance companies do this for just one year?

"Senior Democrats criticized the Upton legislation as a ploy that could unravel the entire health care law."

If it does that, that would be wonderful, but I'm skeptical. It would be fun to see the Senate pass it and Obama be forced to veto it.

"Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, was one of the first Democrats to break with the White House and offer her own plan, which would allow people to keep their current plans indefinitely."

Now that would make sense and it would undo Obamacare. The only problem is people who lost their plans wouldn't be able to get them back, especially people with pre-existing conditions that had been covered until Obamacare canceled those plans.

Great analysis of this sham.

"Yes, the fix is in. Parsed, the president’s advice to the millions who’ve lost coverage is, essentially, “I’ll let you keep your already canceled policies through 2014. Feel free to take it up with your insurance company.”"

Nicely said. When the insurance companies balk, Obama will blame them, not Obamacare or himself.

"As wrecking balls go, Obama and “W” are tied in ignominy. Christopher Conover of Duke University estimates that “129 million, or 68 percent of Americans, may not be able to keep their current health-care plans once Obamacare is fully implemented. [Conover's] study also suggests that 18 to 50 million people will lose their plans altogether.”"

It just keeps getting worse.

"“If you read the bill, that just isn’t so,” Price said. “For starters, within five years, every health-care plan will have to meet a new federal definition for coverage, one that your current plan might not match, even if you like it.”"

So the grandfathering was always temporary, and that time is run out. But it hasn't run out yet.

"What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell."

Well said again.

Of course internal emails reveal everybody knew healthcare.gov wasn't ready. I still think Sebelius will get fired.