Georgia insurance commissioner bragged publicly about sabotaging Obamacare

[Luddly Neddite]

As much as you whine about EMTALA - why aren't you fighting to have it repealed? Put your whiny money where you mouth is.

Oh and it should be obvious but I don't "whine" about EMTALA.

Actually, all I have said is that EMTALA is welfare.

ObamaCare is people paying for their own care.

Get it straight.

Call it what you want. You throw up EMTALA as the excuse for selling our souls to your insurance company sponsors. If that's the excuse, then let's get rid of the excuse.

I call it what is it.

Socialist health care.

I have never ever stated an opinion about whether or not I agree with it.

It is what it is. Period.

 

[dblack]

Oh and it should be obvious but I don't "whine" about EMTALA.

Actually, all I have said is that EMTALA is welfare.

ObamaCare is people paying for their own care.

Get it straight.

Call it what you want. You throw up EMTALA as the excuse for selling our souls to your insurance company sponsors. If that's the excuse, then let's get rid of the excuse.

I call it what is it.

Socialist health care.

I have never ever stated an opinion about whether or not I agree with it.

It is what it is. Period.

But if you're using it as an excuse to take it up the ass from the insurance industry, isn't it worth questioning?

 

[Vandalshandle]

The following is a true story about the Georgia Insurance Commissioner office.

I grew up in Atlanta, and started my career in health insurance in 1966. In 1968, I was asked to go downtown and visit with the deputy insurance commissioner to find out why our newest policy that we had filed months before, had not yet been approved, or disapproved by the commisioner. Approval was required before we could market it.

When I sat down with the deputy and asked him about this, he asked me if I was aware that the current insurance commissioner was running for governor. I told him that I was aware of that. He then reached into his drawer and pulled out a list. He said, (and I am not making this up,) "I have noticed that your company is not on our list of company's who have made a contribution toward his campaign.". I said that I did not know that. He put the list back in his drawwer, and said, "Do you have any more questions?"

 

[Greenbeard]

Georgia insurance commissioner bragged publicly about sabotaging Obamacare

He's also the guy who was "dumbfounded" when letting insurers sell across state lines didn't work. Fun to watch, as long as you don't live in his state.

A new law that allows Georgians to buy health insurance plans approved by other states was envisioned as free-market solution that would lower prices and increase choices.

So far, the law has failed to produce results: Not a single insurer is offering a policy under the new law.

“Nobody has even asked to be approved to sell across state lines,” Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said. “We’re dumbfounded. We are absolutely dumbfounded.”

Hudgens, a conservative Republican who strongly supports free-market ideas, said he expected policies sold in states such as Alabama, which have fewer requirements for health plans, to be offered in Georgia after enactment of the law.

“I’m really surprised because it was such a bumper sticker issue by Republicans saying if we could get across state line selling, we could reduce the cost of health care,” he said.

 

[dblack]

The following is a true story about the Georgia Insurance Commissioner office.

I grew up in Atlanta, and started my career in health insurance in 1966. In 1968, I was asked to go downtown and visit with the deputy insurance commissioner to find out why our newest policy that we had filed months before, had not yet been approved, or disapproved by the commisioner. Approval was required before we could market it.

When I sat down with the deputy and asked him about this, he asked me if I was aware that the current insurance commissioner was running for governor. I told him that I was aware of that. He then reached into his drawer and pulled out a list. He said, (and I am not making this up,) "I have noticed that your company is not on our list of company's who have made a contribution toward his campaign.". I said that I did not know that. He put the list back in his drawwer, and said, "Do you have any more questions?"

THAT is the game. That is what PPACA enshrines into perpetual, soul-fucking law.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Well, if you think that ACA was supposed to stop state insurance commissioners from doing this sort of thing, I suspect that you don't get the point of ACA. At one time, when I was living in Louisiana, all four of the last 4 insurance commisioners were under indictment or already convited of crimes and malfeasance while in office. None of this had anything to do with ACA.

 

[dblack]

Well, if you think that ACA was supposed to stop state insurance commissioners from doing this sort of thing, I suspect that you don't get the point of ACA.

The point of ACA is to cement this practice into national law. From now on, insurance company profits will depend, first and foremost, on their ability to lobby government.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Well, if you think that ACA was supposed to stop state insurance commissioners from doing this sort of thing, I suspect that you don't get the point of ACA.

The point of ACA is to cement this practice into national law. From now on, insurance company profits will depend, first and foremost, on their ability to lobby government.

That has always been the case.

 

[dblack]

Well, if you think that ACA was supposed to stop state insurance commissioners from doing this sort of thing, I suspect that you don't get the point of ACA.

The point of ACA is to cement this practice into national law. From now on, insurance company profits will depend, first and foremost, on their ability to lobby government.

That has always been the case.

But it's radically amplified with PPACA. It could have been otherwise.

 

[Vandalshandle]

{sigh}

 

[BDBoop]

Honey you don't know shit about the law....go do you hair.

And you apparently don't know how to debate. Here's a tweezers and a magnifying glass. Go entertain the troops

Debate?
You know nothing about the Law, nothing.
There is nothing to debate you about.

Backatcha, sparky.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Georgia insurance commissioner bragged publicly about sabotaging Obamacare

Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens (R) boasted to a crowd of Republicans that his office is creating bureaucratic hurdles to slow down and derail the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman reported that earlier this month, Hudgens boasted to an audience of Republicans in Floyd County, “Let me tell you what we’re doing (about Obamacare). Everything in our power to be an obstructionist.”

Activist Bryan Long of the group Better Georgia told Raw Story, “I have nothing more to say than to point out Ralph’s own words, that he and the governor are obstructionists on Obamacare and that’s the role they’ve chosen. Hopefully people in Georgia will realize that this is one more way that our insurance commissioner and our governor are doing everything they can to obstruct the law and to keep health insurance from most Georgia residents.”

Some people in this country no longer understand what our founders meant by Rule Of Law.

Yeah, especially your president.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Well, if you think that ACA was supposed to stop state insurance commissioners from doing this sort of thing, I suspect that you don't get the point of ACA.

The point of ACA is to cement this practice into national law. From now on, insurance company profits will depend, first and foremost, on their ability to lobby government.

That has always been the case.

State boards of insurance regulate rates.

 

[CandySlice]

The thing we should all be fearing is the biggest, most costly, most tangled generational welfare project ever launched anywhere. . .ever. . and the years of bungling and poor medical care in our near futures.
You think the last 60 years of welfare fraud has been bad? Wait'll the bill comes due on Obamacare and the millions that will suffer until it can be undone. Sadly you Obama worshippers will be in the same boat as we who warned you. I call that poetic justice.

That would be Reagan's socialist EMTALA.

In point of FACT, ObamaCare is the opposite of "welfare".

WHY don't the rw's know that? If only they would read just one FACTUAL article about ObamaCare, they would learn that.

But, as we see here every damn day, lying is so much more fun for them.

Problem is, Luddy, the only people that benefit from these big programs are the people that know how to work the system. The scam artists and the slugs will do just fine. Sadly the people that need and deserve the help that is supposedly there for their benifit will not do so well. And thats' not just my opinion, that is historical fact.