Thursday, January 06, 2011

ObamaCare© Overreach

Once again, this administration just doesn't seem to understand its own limits. At a time when "(n)early half of voters with health insurance do not believe President Obama’s promise that they will be able to keep it under the new healthcare reform law," the rocket surgeons behind ObamaCare© think it's a good idea to not only expand federal regulation of health insurance (a blatantly unlawful move), but to exacerbate that awful decision by folding the "health reform office charged with overseeing the insurance ... into the federal Medicare agency."

Brilliant!

But of course they've tapped someone with a deep and exhaustive knowledge of insurance principles and the impact this could have on our ability to manage our care, right?

Sure they did:

"The Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight was created to guide the implementation of key parts of the health overhaul law. Its director, Jay Angoff, a class-action litigator who took on insurance companies..." [emphasis added]

Oh goody: we get the love-child of HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious and John Edwards.

What could go wrong?
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