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By | Bruce McQuain
11/15/2013
Three primarily political reasons drove the Obama concession yesterday to allow insurance companies to continue to cover customers whose plans dont meet ObamaCare standards. And none really had anything to do with doing what was right for the citizenry. He wasnt really doing anyone any favors except Democrats. He was, as usual, focused solely on limiting political damage.
One reason that drove the concession was the usual an attempt to start shifting the blame. As Megan McArdle points out:
Blame shifting is as natural to this administration as breathing is to the rest of us. While they take more heat, they can now pass some of it off to insurers ......
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Three political reasons led to Obama?s capitulation yesterday « Hot Air
Typical move of Obama and this administration. They can't offer up Bush as the scapegoat so they point to the insurers. Never to themselves who in reality are the real offenders.
11/15/2013
Three primarily political reasons drove the Obama concession yesterday to allow insurance companies to continue to cover customers whose plans dont meet ObamaCare standards. And none really had anything to do with doing what was right for the citizenry. He wasnt really doing anyone any favors except Democrats. He was, as usual, focused solely on limiting political damage.
One reason that drove the concession was the usual an attempt to start shifting the blame. As Megan McArdle points out:
This may be a near-perfect specimen of that Washington perennial: the nonsolution solution. Insurers are already warning that they cant simply allow people to stay on their old plans, firstly because all plans have to be approved by state insurers who havent signed onto this, and secondly because getting their computer systems to reissue the canceled policies is a hefty programming task that may not be possible to complete by the end of the year. But thats not the administrations problem, is it? They can say, Hey, we changed the rule if your insurer went ahead and canceled your policy anyway, thats not our fault!
Blame shifting is as natural to this administration as breathing is to the rest of us. While they take more heat, they can now pass some of it off to insurers ......
[Excerpt]
Read more:
Three political reasons led to Obama?s capitulation yesterday « Hot Air
Typical move of Obama and this administration. They can't offer up Bush as the scapegoat so they point to the insurers. Never to themselves who in reality are the real offenders.
