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Title: Hope and Change!
Post by: makattak on September 21, 2010, 09:05:58 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092006665.html

Insurers will shortly be required to accept all children with pre-existing conditions.

COINCIDENTALLY, insurers are dropping child-only coverage now.

Whoever could have forseen this!?

And, I have to quote this because this is beautiful for capturing the left's pollyanna views:

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"We're just days away from a new era when insurance companies must stop denying coverage to kids just because they are sick, and now some of the biggest changed their minds," Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, an advocacy group, said in a statement. "[It] is immoral, and to blame their appalling behavior on the new law is patently dishonest."

These people really are that stupid, aren't they?

Title: Re: Hope and Change!
Post by: RevDisk on September 21, 2010, 09:24:16 AM

I loved the quote by the Department of Health and Human Services drone.  Her opinion was that insurance companies should take the hit instead of doing the obvious.


Every insurance person I knew was laughing hysterically when ObamaCare passed.   They told me the number of plans offered would shrink, the marginal players would consolidate, and prices would go up.  None of this exactly being "voluntary" if they wanted to stay in business. 

Title: Re: Hope and Change!
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 21, 2010, 09:31:16 AM

Yeah! Let those evil insurance companies work for no money. And their employees, too! Soon no Americans will be able to afford to work for insurance companies, and all of the jobs will go to "undocumented workers".

Title: Re: Hope and Change!
Post by: TechMan on September 21, 2010, 10:50:25 AM

I love that the administration is saying the insurers made a commitment via a trade group letter and are expecting them to live up to that letter.  What if only a slim majority in the trade group supported this issue?

Title: Re: Hope and Change!
Post by: RocketMan on September 22, 2010, 03:30:50 AM

"We're just days away from a new era when insurance companies must stop denying coverage to kids just because they are sick start giving away free money, and now some of the biggest changed their minds," Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, an advocacy group, said in a statement. "[It] is immoral, and to blame their appalling behavior on the new law is patently dishonest."

I fixed his statement for him.  Do you think he'll appreciate it?