Breaking: California REJECTS Obama's FIX

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California officials implementing President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul rejected a one-year extension of insurance plans that are to be canceled under the law.

The president has urged states to give people with substandard medical plans an additional year to meet the law’s requirements after hundreds of thousands received cancellation notices and were told new policies to meet minimum rules for coverage would cost more.

“That’s making the best of not-great options, but I think it’s the best option and then we can focus in the coming months on the enrollment we need,” Peter V. Lee, the executive director of Covered California, the health exchange, said today at a meeting in Sacramento.

California’s decision is critical to the rollout of Obamacare nationwide. The most populous U.S. state, which received almost $1 billion in federal grants to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, led the U.S. in signups last month. The law requires all Americans to be covered next year or pay a penalty.

Obama appealed for the added time because the cancellations conflicted with his promise that consumers who liked their existing plans could keep them. The Covered California board weighed extending the canceled plans through March 31 or through Dec. 31, 2014, or allowing them to expire at the end of next month.

Individual States
Prolonging the policies “is up to individual states to decide,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in Washington when asked about states not complying with the president’s request. “That is as much as we can do.”

California Rejects Obama?s Insurance Cancellation Fix - Bloomberg

I guess most of us on this board knew this was coming. Insurers have for 4 years rewritten their policies according to the Obamacare mandates. They were forced into cancelling policies that did not meet the mandates of Obamacare. The heat got turned up on this administration when 5.2 million of the insured got cancellation letters from their insurers, after being promised more than 40 times by Obama and democrats that they could keep their policies if they liked them. California being one of the heaviest hit with cancellations. Of course Obama came out and then stated that the insurers who have eliminated the policies that these people like can re-write them--

Now this is just FOREPLAY for Obama to cast blame on the insurers and nothing else. The blitz is on. MSNBC will be wetting their pants with glee to blame insurers, versus babbling about what Obama "didn't do wrong."--LOL. Just remember these insurers were all along following Obamacare mandates--which drove Obamacare premiums through the roof.