Criticism of Obamacare
Michael Barone
Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare
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Sebelius objects to claims by health insurers that they are raising premiums because of increased costs imposed by the Obamacare law passed by Congress last March.
She acknowledges that many of the law’s “key protections” take effect later this month and does not deny that these impose additional costs on insurers. But she says that “according to our analysis and those of some industry and academic experts, any potential premium impact … will be minimal.”
Well, that’s reassuring. Er, except that if that’s the conclusion of “some” industry and academic experts, it’s presumably not the conclusion of all industry and academic experts, or the secretary would have said so.
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First of all, as part of the Gooferment, the Health and Human Services Secretary is restrained by the First Amendment. If she feels that the Gooferment is being maligned or the public is being mislead, the Gooferment has a plethora of lawyers. In the 17 tons of diktats, surely she can find one to charge the Insurance Companies with. Fraud, defrauding consumers by raising prices while blaming the Gooferment. Perjury, get them in front of Congress, like Roger Clemens.
Second, it’s only common sense, if I’m the insurance company and I know have to cover “children to age 26” starting today, that cost has to be spread over everyone in the pool. Insurance is just sharing a small guaranteed annual loss to avoid a random gigantic one at an inopportune time. Sort of like a child’s balloon, squeeze one end and the the other end bulges. If there a million people in the pool and the risk of some one’s college kid hast be covered, then every one in the pool has to cough up one millionth of the probably cost. If you have no college age “children”, find a better pool to be in. Argh! It’s just common sense. Only the gooferment can level the pool by taking water from the “deep end” and pouring it into the shallow end.
So, the H&HSS should just shut up!
Obamacare is a disaster and no amount of jawboning insurance companies is going to change it. Argh
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