By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--December 20, 2013
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"This latest rule change could cause significant instability in the marketplace and lead to further confusion and disruption for consumers," said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans. Only Wednesday, the industry had announced its own accommodation - giving consumers an extra 10 days to pay January's premiums. . . . Democrats generally praised the latest steps as a commonsense backup in a difficult situation. Republicans panned the administration action as another patch to an unworkable law. Insurers are concerned that healthy customers who potentially would have bought full coverage may now stay out of the market, leaving the companies with a group of patients in worse health overall.Not a tear should be shed here for the health insurance companies, who got in bed with the Democrats to help craft ObamaCare on the expectation that they would benefit from the individual mandate. I really don't care what happens to them. Unfortunately, the system has been set up such that everyone has to depend on them, and if they can't do what they're supposed to do, a whole lot of people are going to be left without any reasonable way to access care. You can't force everyone to rely on insurance and then destroy the ability of the insurers to cover costs. But that's exactly what ObamaCare does because its scheme for reconfiguring the risk pool doesn't work, and its make-it-up-as-we-go-along "fixes" only make the problem worse. What a mess. The only way to fix ObamaCare is to repeal ObamaCare. Democrats need to let go of their pride and their fear of political consequences, admit they screwed up and clean up their mess before it destroys the entire health care system. And if Obama refuses to sign the repeal because of his own narcissistic pride - which is likely knowing him - then enough Democrats need to find it within themselves to put the nation ahead of their party and vote to override his veto. If that means they face an electoral bloodbath next year, tough. That's what they deserve for passing this monster. Maybe it will teach them a lesson about not abusing your power and screwing around with what you don't understand. These people need to stop their nonsense and do the right thing before the law they passed pushes the health care system in this nation into total collapse.
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