http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/us/politics/obama-proposal-worries-insurers-and-regulators.html?_r=1&
President Obama’s effort to quiet a political uproar by suggesting on Thursday that consumers should be allowed to keep their current health plans met significant resistance from many insurers and state regulators, who said they had not been consulted in advance about the proposal, doubted it could work and feared it might seriously damage the new insurance marketplace.After the president announced the proposed changes, insurance regulators participated in a heated conference call, according to one regulator, where many expressed deep unhappiness about the proposal.Some on the call felt “the president kind of threw us under the bus today,” the regulator said on the condition of anonymity because the discussion was supposed to be private.What emerged from the call was a strongly worded statement warning of the possible effects of the president’s proposal.
we all know insurance's connection to republicans so reasonable to think that they are in opposition any way and birds of a feather try to obstruct together. so expect the duplicitous insurance companies to support the republican agenda,
after all they wanted the status quo but now with all the fuss created by the right wing they have both parties where they want them in a box together.
“This decision continues different rules for different policies and threatens to undermine the new market, and may lead to higher premiums and market disruptions in 2014 and beyond,” said Jim Donelon, Louisiana’s insurance regulator and the president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.In Washington State, where the new state-run exchange has been a success, Mike Kreidler, the insurance commissioner, issued a harsh response, saying he would not do as Mr. Obama had urged and allow the state’s insurers to extend policies into 2014.“I do not believe his proposal is a good deal for the State of Washington,” he said. “In the interest of keeping the consumer protections we have enacted and ensuring that we keep health insurance costs down for all consumers, we are staying the course.”
one issue, the ACA all ready has consumer protection in it, the fact that some states especially red states is proof the program can work with cooperation which they are refusing, denying millions health care and those that have it denying them too, a better health care plan.
right wing selfishness they can have it but not you. from God Bless the child, "rich relations will offer you a crust of bread and such, you can help yourself but don't take too much" sounds like what the republicans are doing to their constituents.
