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The Debate is Over! Obama Tosses Billions to Insurance Companies to Cover Up ObamaCare Losses

• Posted by Admin Linda Hahn on May 21, 2014 at 2:26pm in Obama Administration
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Gee, we thought ObamaCare was working so well?

The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money.
The move was buried in hundreds of pages of new regulations issued late last week. It comes as part of an intensive administration effort to hold down premium increases for next year, a top priority for the White House as the rates will be announced ahead of this fall’s congressional elections.

We thought it was sacrilegious to play politics with people’s healthcare?

They continue to argue that most insurers shouldn’t need to substantially increase premiums because safeguards in the healthcare law will protect them over the next several years.

But the change in regulations essentially provides insurers with another backup: If they keep rate increases modest over the next couple of years but lose money, the administration will tap federal funds as needed to cover shortfalls.

Although little noticed so far, the plan was already beginning to fuel a new round of attacks Tuesday from the healthcare law’s critics.

“If conservatives want to stop the illegal Obamacare insurance bailout before it starts they must start planning now,” wrote Conn Carroll, an editor of the right-leaning news site Townhall.com.

POLL: What specific question should a Trey Gowdy led Special Committee ask Hillary Clinton?

A billion here a billion there, anything to avoid admitting this is a total disaster.

Insurers around the country have started to file proposed 2015 premiums, just as the midterm campaigns are heating up. Obamacare, as the law is often called, remains a top campaign issue, and big premium increases in states with tightly contested races could prove politically disastrous for Democrats.

But we thought they were planning to run on it?

If rates go up dramatically, consumers may also turn away from insurance marketplaces in some states, leading to their collapse.

The entire mess will collapse and we’ll all end up paying for it, particularly galling for those who said this would never work and were ignored.
Read at:  http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/the-debate-is-over-obama-tosses-billio..