Obamacare: A Law or a Shakedown?

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PJMedia:

I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further.

 

Late last week, the Obama administration made a series of “requests” to insurance companies that are participating in the new exchanges, federal or state, as well as those companies processing renewal requests for individual insurance policies that were initially cancelled and may now be renewed in those states where the state insurance commissioner has given the OK.

 

These “requests” follow a series of retreats from deadlines established at the time the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. These include:

delaying the employer mandate for a year;

delaying the end of the sign-up period for coverage beginning January 1;

delaying the introduction of the Spanish language website;

delaying small business online enrollment for a year;

delaying the beginning of the enrollment period for 2015 until mid-November so that it follows the 2014 midterms (a delay selected so that voters do not get to see the large premium increases that almost certainly will be coming in the second year); and

allowing insurance companies to reinstate cancelled policies that had been judged non-compliant with Obamacare mandates or “grandfathering corridors.”