Sebelius told Congress earlier on Wednesday that a team of tech whizzes working through nights and weekends to fix the troubled health insurance marketplace website will be hard-pressed to finish repairs as promised by the end of November…
Gawd this is a train wreck.
Last night at about 6:30 I opined on how long it would take the administration to deflect blame on the policy cancellations from Barack Obama to the insurance companies.
The White House has struggled to defend President Obama’s 2009 claim as thousands of people receive notifications that their insurance companies are dropping their plans.
“Is he keeping his promise?” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked Sebelius.
“Yes he is,” the Health and Human Services secretary responded.
She repeated the administration’s argument that, if people are losing their plans, it is because of insurance companies and not the new healthcare law.
“If a person had a policy in place in March 2010, liked that plan, and the insurance company made no changes to disadvantage the consumer, those policies are in place, you keep your plan if you like it, and that goes on,” Sebelius told the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
“People though who had a medically underwritten policy, were paying more than their neighbor because they happen to be female … they will have a new day in a very competitive market,” she added.
Many insurers have stopped offering plans that do not comply with regulations issued by the Health and Human Services Department outlining basic levels of coverage. Consumers who have received such notices are often left with more expensive options.
These people simply lied. It’s not like the traditional campaign speech promising no school on Fridays and a pretty girl for every boy. They knew that people, by the millions, would lose their coverage and they kept saying that they wouldn’t.
The next sound bite?
“Yes, you DID lose your plan, however, it will be replaced by one that is better.”
Posted in Health Care, Idiots on Parade, Politics: National
Tagged AMA, Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama Lied, Obamacare
The constant screech from the left is that the conservative doesn’t care about the woman. The day doesn’t go by that you don’t hear the familiar refrain:
Republicans don’t care about women’s reproductive health.
It’s a veritable war on women.
But is it? Or is it really just the left’s unholy preoccupation with abortion that’s at the root of all of this?
Oh my!
How are we going to protect our young, poor, rural elderly Democrats from having babies?
WASHINGTON – In a surprise move, the nation’s health secretary stopped the Plan B morning-after pill from moving onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms, deciding Wednesday that young girls shouldn’t be able to buy it on their own.
The Food and Drug Administration was preparing to lift a controversial age limit and make Plan B One-Step the nation’s first over-the-counter emergency contraceptive, available for purchase by people of any age without a prescription.
But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius intervened at the eleventh hour and overruled her own experts.
Plan B instead will remain behind the pharmacy counter, as it is sold today — available without a prescription only for those 17 and older who show an ID proving their age.
It is clear that Democrats hate Democrats.
Posted in Government, Liberty, Politics: National