If you challenge the president’s beloved health care plan, consider the fate of William White, the Washington, D.C. Insurance Commissioner, who voiced skepticism about Obama’s hastily assembled “fix” for the millions losing their insurance policies.
A day after suggesting that the new demands on insurers could destabilize the marketplace and lead to even higher premiums, White was canned.
Telling the truth about Obamacare is risky.
Remember the manhandling of Congressional Budget Office head Douglas Elmendorf?
When the supposedly neutral bean counters undertook the first analysis of Obamacare ’s fiscal impact, their preliminary findings threatened to undermine the happy talk flowing from the White House. Elmendorf was summoned to a parlay with the president, who doubtless explained how the budget gurus might amend their analysis, as a patriotic duty.
Not long after, budget chief Peter Orszag issued a further warning to the CBO, saying it should guard against “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.”
Pity the poor insurance companies (if you can.) Hauled into the White House only after the president decided to live up to his promise that Americans could keep their existing insurance, they were thrown under the Obamacare bus.
Now it’s their problem that millions have lost policies that did not comply with ACA mandates; they will either figure out a way to undo the work of the past three years in just a few weeks or will be battered by a defensive White House.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/11/19/team-obama-scary-message-for-obamacare-critics/?intcmp=obnetwork
A day after suggesting that the new demands on insurers could destabilize the marketplace and lead to even higher premiums, White was canned.
Telling the truth about Obamacare is risky.
Remember the manhandling of Congressional Budget Office head Douglas Elmendorf?
When the supposedly neutral bean counters undertook the first analysis of Obamacare ’s fiscal impact, their preliminary findings threatened to undermine the happy talk flowing from the White House. Elmendorf was summoned to a parlay with the president, who doubtless explained how the budget gurus might amend their analysis, as a patriotic duty.
Not long after, budget chief Peter Orszag issued a further warning to the CBO, saying it should guard against “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.”
Pity the poor insurance companies (if you can.) Hauled into the White House only after the president decided to live up to his promise that Americans could keep their existing insurance, they were thrown under the Obamacare bus.
Now it’s their problem that millions have lost policies that did not comply with ACA mandates; they will either figure out a way to undo the work of the past three years in just a few weeks or will be battered by a defensive White House.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/11/19/team-obama-scary-message-for-obamacare-critics/?intcmp=obnetwork