Obamacare is now optional

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Washington Examiner
Michael F. Cannon
Aug.1, 2018

At long last, the Trump administration has created a “freedom option” for people suffering under Obamacare. A final rulemaking issued Wednesday reverses an Obama-era regulation that exposed the sick to medical underwriting. The new rule will expand consumer protections for the sick, cover up to two million uninsured people, reduce premiums for millions more, protect conscience rights, and make Obamacare’s costs more transparent. And unlike President Barack Obama’s implementation of his signature healthcare legislation, it works within the confines of the law.

Federal law exempts “short-term, limited duration” health insurance from having to carry the unwanted coverage and hidden taxes Obamacare requires. Many consumers have understandably taken refuge from soaring Obamacare premiums in short-term plans.

Hoping to force those consumers into Obamacare plans, the Obama administration sabotaged short-term plans by stripping them of crucial consumer protections. It cut the maximum plan term from 12 months to three months, and forbade issuers from offering “renewal guarantees” that allow the sick to continue purchasing short-term policies at healthy-person rates. State insurance regulators protested that these restrictions literally stripped sick patients of their coverage.

More... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obamacare-is-now-optional

[Sanguine]

That might just kill it since Congress seems incapable of doing so.

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That might just kill it since Congress seems incapable of doing so.

I hope so. And I'm surprised that some judge in Outer Mongolia hasn't put a stop to this.

[XenaLee]

Washington Examiner
Michael F. Cannon
Aug.1, 2018

At long last, the Trump administration has created a “freedom option” for people suffering under Obamacare. A final rulemaking issued Wednesday reverses an Obama-era regulation that exposed the sick to medical underwriting. The new rule will expand consumer protections for the sick, cover up to two million uninsured people, reduce premiums for millions more, protect conscience rights, and make Obamacare’s costs more transparent. And unlike President Barack Obama’s implementation of his signature healthcare legislation, it works within the confines of the law.

Federal law exempts “short-term, limited duration” health insurance from having to carry the unwanted coverage and hidden taxes Obamacare requires. Many consumers have understandably taken refuge from soaring Obamacare premiums in short-term plans.

Hoping to force those consumers into Obamacare plans, the Obama administration sabotaged short-term plans by stripping them of crucial consumer protections. It cut the maximum plan term from 12 months to three months, and forbade issuers from offering “renewal guarantees” that allow the sick to continue purchasing short-term policies at healthy-person rates. State insurance regulators protested that these restrictions literally stripped sick patients of their coverage.


More... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obamacare-is-now-optional

Ironic... considering that ObamaCare forced insurance companies to cover pre-conditions.... ie the "already sick".  Just more leftist lies and deceit.

[Cyber Liberty]

I hope so. And I'm surprised that some judge in Outer Mongolia hasn't put a stop to this.

Give it time. Hawaii is 6 hours behind Washington DC.

[Cyber Liberty]

The unspoken design behind Obastardcare was to collapse all private insurance, so the public would stampede the government demanding National Health Care (and sweep out Republicans in the process).  Every jot and diddle in the law the Rats passed was engineered to damage the insurance companies.  They had 15 years since the collapse of Hillarycare to write that law.

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The unspoken design behind Obastardcare was to collapse all private insurance, so the public would stampede the government demanding National Health Care (and sweep out Republicans in the process).  Every jot and diddle in the law the Rats passed was engineered to damage the insurance companies.  They had 15 years since the collapse of Hillarycare to write that law.

AFAIK, the insurance companies got behind Obamacare. If that's so then...WTF?

[Cyber Liberty]

AFAIK, the insurance companies got behind Obamacare. If that's so then...WTF?

Backing seemingly destructive policies is SOP for large companies, because they expect to be able to use new laws to destroy their smaller, less well-connected competition.  I think since Congress never read the bill until they voted on it, it's reasonable to believe the insurance companies didn't either.