Having the Backbone to Set Minimum Standards for Health Insurance

[Crewleader]

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

by Robert Reich

Democrats are showing once again they have the backbones of banana slugs.

The Affordable Care Act was meant to hold insurers to a higher standards. So it stands to reason that some insurers will have to cancel their lousy sub-standard policies.

But spineless Democrats (including my old boss Bill Clinton) are caving in to the Republican-fueled outrage that the President “misled” Americans into thinking they could keep their old lousy policies — and are now urging the White House to forget the new standards and let people keep what they had before.

http://robertreich.org/post/66876915801

[Archaic]

1. When did we ever have any policy, ever, that everybody was a winner?

From your posted article...

Yes, the President might have spelled this out a bit more clearly beforehand, explaining that 95 percent of us aren’t in the private insurance market to begin with and won’t be affected, and that most of the 2 percent who lose their lousy policies and have to take better and more expensive ones will be subsidized.

Fine, if this is how it has to be, then we need to launch the DOJ at any "insurer" that is allowed to sell a policy that is so crap that it even permits this line of fire.

If some "insurer" is allowed to sell a cheap policy, that covers nothing, then it should be closed down after having its records/assets seized and returned to the people they weren't really insuring in the first place.

[russspeakeasy]

2. Not one more damned apology.

Form a team that has its shit together and direct them to go wherever and do what it takes to
counter the teabagger/repuke bullshit.

ENOUGH WITH APOLOGIES !!

[DonCoquixote]

3. Good for RR

For calling Bill Clinton SPINELESS.