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March 30, 2010

Insurers Announce Agreement on Child Coverage
— Gabriel Malor

Democrats and the legacy media are crowing that Obama has done it again and vanquished his foes in the evil insurance industry. Gibbsy tweets:

Kids 1, insurance 0 as companies agree to comply with new regs so kids with pre-existing conditions can get health ins.

It was a losing issue for insurance companies and they needed to get it off the table quickly. So why not send out their chief lobbyist to announce they're playing nice-nice?

"Health plans recognize the significant hardship that a family faces when they are unable to obtain coverage for a child with a pre-existing condition," Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, said in a letter to Sebelius. Ignagni said that the industry will "fully comply" with the regulations, expected within weeks.

Of course, you'd have to be as foolish as Gibbs to believe that when the lawsuits get filed, the actual text of the ObamaCare law, which doesn't require insurers to cover children with preexisting conditions, will be given less attention that the letter of a lobbyist and inconsistent regulations from HHS.

Insurers want to change the subject. Dems want to show the President winning. They've agreed to their own private reality.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:20 AM | Comments (25)
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1 A fix wouldn't have been necessary if the Dems had written a competent bill. And read it before they passed it.

Posted by: nickless at March 30, 2010 05:22 AM (MMC8r)

I work at a health insurance company and we've been laughing our asses off at the health care bill since it was passed. It's either laugh or cry so we pick laugh.

The pre-existing thing for kids is a drop in bucket of asinine crap in this bill.

We figure it will take AT LEAST five to ten years to implement all the changes the bill talks about and it'll be a complete disaster....

Posted by: experience smeperience at March 30, 2010 05:24 AM (8mpdw)

3
Big Government is a special interest.

and Obama is its biggest lobbyist.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at March 30, 2010 05:25 AM (0fzsA)

4
Wow, there's a holy and precious media pimp bandage for everything the democrats fuck.

Self-absorbed corruptocrats, so busy looking to tax tax tax and fine and fee, they forgot about the children.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at March 30, 2010 05:28 AM (0fzsA)

5 So when do the Hugo Chavez regulations come out outlawing premium increases to cover all this?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 30, 2010 05:32 AM (u/YJA)

6 Have I mentioned recently how much I LOATHE that cherubicly fat cheeked fucknozzle Gibbsy??

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2010 05:37 AM (dlw+9)

7 Is this a punch down?

Posted by: eman at March 30, 2010 05:43 AM (3fzoU)

I saw Gibbs comment on this this morning in fact. He said...

"Ahh.. umm.. well.. umm... ah.. "

Which is pretty much all he ever says whenever anyone asks him a question.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 30, 2010 05:46 AM (e8T35)

9 Taking potshots at coverage for children? Children are down. Punch up, you retards!

Posted by: dumguy at March 30, 2010 05:48 AM (zdSsu)

10 Kids 1, insurance 0 as companies agree to comply with new regs so kids with pre-existing conditions can get health ins.

I'm so glad these clowns have tougher words for American insurance companies than they do for despots like Hugo Chavez. Kinda tells you where their sympathies lie, huh?

Ahh, hell. It's not like I'm telling anyone here something they didn't already know. Where's someguy? Let's smack him around a bit more.

Posted by: Warden at March 30, 2010 05:48 AM (XGvLe)

11 They've just agreed to raise prices, that's all. You can always insure, it just costs money.

Posted by: t-bird at March 30, 2010 05:58 AM (FcR7P)

12 Of course, there's always the possibility that this provision was left out of the bill on purpose. The insurance companies wanting to obey the letter of the law as it stood, would make note of it. The HHS Secretary, the Dems the White House can therefore posture, coming out and saying "Dont you dare play business as usual." Then they go to the talk shows and say "See?? The insurance companies are evil!! We virtuous Democrats must put them in their place!" It's a friggin puppet show...

Posted by: Olliander at March 30, 2010 06:15 AM (6uiF7)

13 Doesn't "fully comply" meaning kicking all the kids off insurance until 2014? Because that's the regs.

Posted by: Ella at March 30, 2010 06:26 AM (rw34s)

14 Sock on

Posted by: fantods, night sweats, large bowel complaints, and the odd case of lockjaw at March 30, 2010 06:38 AM (aVzyR)

15 Barry wins this one and keeps winning. While it's unpopular for Teh Evil Insurance Companies to oppose demands that raise costs, reality is inexorable. They're simply going to pass on these costs to rate payers. They might as well just let Barry dictate all of their business decisions as fighting back is not in their plan. It's the price paid for colluding with gubmint to force people to buy your product.

Posted by: George Orwell at March 30, 2010 06:48 AM (AZGON)

The insurance companies aren't dummies. They will raise everyones rates 3 or 4 percent to cover this. The whitehouse knows it and doesn't care because they get their talking point for the day.

I doubt it's going to do much for them politically since Pres. Ears has been claiming that pre existing conditions for kids were already covered for the last 2 months. In fact it will probably make people say WTF I thought that was already in the deal.

Posted by: robtr at March 30, 2010 06:50 AM (fwSHf)

17 So when is Baghdad Bob Gibbs going to explain WHO is going to PAY for this coverage?

Posted by: GarandFan at March 30, 2010 07:19 AM (6mwMs)

18 I think I smell a rate hike coming...

Posted by: FatBaldnSassy at March 30, 2010 07:26 AM (Lq9ag)

19 So now private enterprises are required to enter contract that are guaranteed to lose them money? Sounds like another manifestation of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

If you don't know what that is, you desperately need to know to understand what the current administration is really about.

Posted by: epobirs at March 30, 2010 07:48 AM (ei25G)

20 How else was it supposed to play out? The insurance companies have been in the pocket since this thing began and now they're gonna fight it on a technicality?
They've got a gov't ordered mandate to make the public buy their shit and they're supposed to say, "NO WAY!!!"

From the get go this was GM, Chrysler II. "Hey, We'll give you a shit ton of money from the public if you just play with us! We won't let you down; I mean, what are the people gonna do? Say NO. HA HA! Just sign right there."

Posted by: coolio at March 30, 2010 07:56 AM (EgRAz)

21
The insurance companies had better watch their asses.

If there are loopholes in the bad bill, then they had better be exploited or shareholders will have a valid case against them.

If an insurer emerges with a "tough shit" attitude and provides policies competitively priced at the no-brainer level by exploiting loopholes, then they will own the market for customers representing the least risk.

All this says nothing about how, when the worm turns, these kneeling-to-Zod insurers will find themselves under scrutiny for anticompetitive practices.

Posted by: MikeO at March 30, 2010 08:08 AM (lBmZl)

22 They might as well just let Barry dictate all of their business decisions as fighting back is not in their plan. It's the price paid for colluding with gubmint to force people to buy your product.

This.

These people are not Capitalists.

Posted by: toby928 at March 30, 2010 08:14 AM (PD1tk)

23 xxx

Posted by: Fish at April 01, 2010 04:58 PM (M5t+h)

24 it's good.they are the future heroes.so we need to protect them

Posted by: yeast infection treatment at November 16, 2010 08:51 AM (olwoq)

25 children are the future

Posted by: fat burning exercises at November 16, 2010 07:01 PM (JIhhW)

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