Obama Regime Stifles Criticism of Obamacare
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, September 13, 2010, 6:17 AM
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, issued a warning to health insurers that the Obama regime will not tolerate criticism of their nationalized health care plan.
It will not be tolerated.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
The Obama administration on Thursday told health insurers that it will track those who enact “unjustified” rate increases linked to the health overhaul and may block those companies from a new marketplace for insurance coverage.
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, issued the warning in a letter to Karen Ignagni, the insurance industry’s top lobbyist.
Ms. Sebelius said some insurers were notifying enrollees that their insurance premiums will increase next year as a result of the law’s new benefits.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that some carriers are asking for total premium hikes topping 20% starting this month, and the carriers are attributing one to nine percentage points of the increases to new benefit mandates in the law.
“There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases,” Ms. Sebelius wrote. “We will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.”
Beginning Sept. 23 or later, many new plans for individuals and small employers must begin letting children stay on their parents’ insurance policies until age 26. These plans also face a requirement to eliminate co-payments for preventive care, give coverage to children regardless of pre-existing medical conditions and eliminate lifetime coverage caps.
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bg commented:
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the Obama regime is desperate..
but they will forge ahead due to the fact
that the opposition is not being heard..
where are the Republicans, aside from trying to protect their cherished career positions in Congress, like they’ve done so much to defend US or the Constitution via playing their political games??
where are the conservative Democrats, aside from trying to protect their cherished career positions in Congress, like they haven’t been traitorous
to US or the Constitution via kowtowing to the elite party line??
do any of them not have a conscience inside or outside of DC??
where are the investigative journalists, aside from trying to protect
their butts from law suits & dis-favor via Obama’s White House??
lots of questions to be answered, no answere forthcoming , and we are slowly but surely being lulled into silence like sheep to the slaughter aka: free individual citizens to a collective community of indentured servants..
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proof commented:
“Zero tolerance” for people raising their prices to cover their costs? Yeah. And I’ll bet the Obama administration will make the trains run on time, too!
FreeLunchCafe commented:
“We will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.”
Maybe somebody should inform Sebilius that profits account for only $5 per month in the average health insurance premium. $35 is administrative overhead. The rest all goes to health care services, the price of which has been inflated for years by government spending (just like the housing and education markets). Insurance companies NEVER increase premiums because they want to make more profit. They raise premiums so they can maintain their tiny profit margins while the cost of the health care services they’re paying for skyrocket year after year. And all those premium increases are reviewed and approved by state regulators already, without the imperial D.C. government getting involved.
bg commented:
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just a sample:
other issues Obama Regime has stifled
(well, the ones we know of anyways)..
“banned words”
Obama’s UN Resolution to Stifle Free Speech on Islam
industry
Oil drilling
[Despite President Obama's moratorium on U.S. deepwater drilling in
the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Export-Import Bank intends to guarantee
$1 billion in loans to PEMEX, the Mexican state oil company, to bolster
the company's oil drilling in the region.
The bank, which is the official American export credit agency, loaned more than $1 billion to PEMEX in 2009 -- when the company was the bank's largest borrower -- in support of its drilling activities. That year, the bank also guaranteed two loans totaling $300 million made by a commercial lender.]
will try & post more later..
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bg commented:
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again, just a sample:
Obama on single payer health insurance
Obama: Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance
Roskam Questions Sebelius on single payer health insurance
Questioning Secretary Sebelius on Single-payer Healthcare
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down with dems commented:
This would seem to be an example of “speak power to truth” … rather the opposite of what the Obama camp claimed to want to do.
IndependentConservative_FL commented:
In Communist and Totalitarian Regimes, the voice of opposition is not allowed and if it does, it’s controlled and with permission from Big Brother.
Valerie commented:
We are forcing the people who are already paying for insurance to pay for the 20% who are not insured. Prices will go up.
captainfish commented:
they did it last year too. threatened insurance companies that if they raised rates, they would find themselves withheld from the Fed’s insurance pools.
compassion. openness. tolerance. understanding. agreeable. capable. servitude. humility. civil servant mindset.
for some reason, I don’t think of the Dems when I think on these words.
David/California commented:
The “misinformation” Health Commissar Sebelius is referring to is the legally required filing every insurance company must make with state regulators prior to implementing any rate increase, or change in coverage, or amendment to policy language.
I’ll mention, since the One-Party Media seems to have overlooked it, that such filings are public; are generally submitted under penalty of perjury; are only the beginning of a due diligence process by regulators than can last as long as a year; are generally subject to public hearings if the state Insurance Commissioner requires them, or if requested by consumers or other affected parties; are accompanied by actuarial and mathematical ‘proofs’ of the rate change requested, and pro forma exhibits of the change’s affect; and the process occurs independently in every state in which the insurer is seeking a change.
In short, the due process for insurance rate increases looks a lot like what the legislative process for Obamacare should have looked like–and didn’t.
Would that Obama and the members of his Politburo were held to the same standards of honesty as health insurers.
bg commented:
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captainfish @ 11:10 am #12
re: [I don’t think of the Dems
when I think on these words.]
(just a sample)
perhaps not, but they are their Islamist keepers..
not to mention their Caliph in Cheif..
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nelli commented:
“We will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.”
This Sebilius person sounds familiar. Did she have her hair in a tight bun, and was she smacking her palm with a ruler when she said that?