I applaud the ACA "fix" [View all]

[cthulu2016]

I do not applaud it because it is Obama. I favored this general approach before it was cool... back when it made me a Cylon troll.

I posted at length a while back about the need for mandated government information inserts for cancellation letters, and an even longer post about how a one-year delay in *government mandating* cancellation of non-compliant plans would make the roll-out better. Let insurers take the PR hit if they want to cancel these plans.


The reason Obama is doing this is because it is, in the big picture, less damaging to Obamcare than the alternatives.

Obamacare is fighting for survival, and survival is the key consideration.


Putting the full onus for canceling plans on insurers (and states —a lot of this is state level stuff for states with their own exchanges) for one more year is correct. Such cancellations should not be required by the government until the mechanism for moving to different plans is flawless.

And insurers are blaming voluntary moves on the ACA. This should take that away. Insurers want to cancel a lot of these non-compliant plans and there is no reason for the government to take the fall for what insurers want to do anyway.

Also, mandating that insurers provide ACA information when sending a cancellation letter is a no-brainer. That is very valuable.


I agree with what he is doing as the best thing, given the totality of circumstances in the real world today, for the survival and eventual entrenchment of Obamcare.


So yea Obama.