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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why aren't Dems and Progressives going on OFFENSE on the INSURANCE COMPANIES for not complying? [View all]
For Christ sake, this is what always happens. Instead of "apologizing" (though I know he was just saying he was feeling bad that some consumers were getting policy cancellations and it is a hassle), Obama should from the get-go have said, "No one would be getting a policy cancellation if the INSURANCE COMPANIES had brought the policies up to standards and they have had TONS of time to do it. Also, what the media isn't saying is that many of these companies cancelling certain policies, in the same letters, are offering policies that DO conform. Also, remember that people will be getting subsidies to buy new and BETTER plans either from the same company or on the exchange, and also remember that a good number of plans whose companies made just a few improvements to DID get grandfathered. Grandfathering did not require full compliance with all new standards, just a few of them."
IT IS THE INSURANCE COMPANIES, STUPID !
Jesus Christ, the one horrid thing about too many Dems/Progressives is they too often can't form a strong narrative and stick to it and hammer away at it. They bumble and fumble around on messaging like the blind leading the blind. (Although, they have done better in some recent campaigns. Obama last year did great defining the MittTwit. And they did great defining and bashing the Cooch-Hole in VA and D'Blasio did great messaging in his campaign in NYC. But now they have to learn how to do it with policy fights.)