Friday, November 15, 2013
Neat trick.
Now Obama has "promised" to extend the deadline on switching or cancelling old LOUSY (i.e. good enough) health plans. This "promise" is just as false and disingenuous as the original promise.
Here in Wash, Insurance Commissioner Satan Kreidler has already ordered insurers to continue steaming toward the iceberg. Lash down that wheel, boys! More coal! More coal! More steam!
The order is redundant because the insurers LOVE the idea of offering NONEXISTENT extra "benefits" for double the price.
Put it into a different context. Let's say you're looking for a new sofa. You find that all the furniture stores are suddenly charging double for sofas because the new sofas are all child-size. They're two feet tall, built to fit toddlers. The salesman tells you this is is a "benefit." The old LOUSY sofas were too big for toddlers and lacked seatbelts and rollbars and airbags. You walk out and try to buy a regular adult-size sofa, but you find it's impossible. All the regular sofas have been scrapped. You go home, sit on your old threadbare but comfortable sofa and drink a beer to soothe your anger, but not for long. The Sofa Police break down your door to confiscate and scrap your old LOUSY sofa. They bring in a new baby sofa and force you to pay for it. No comfort allowed in Wall Street's New America!
From the viewpoint of the furniture makers, this is Heaven. Make smaller products, charge twice as much, force everyone to buy. Sheer perfection!
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From the viewpoint of the furniture makers, this is Heaven. Make smaller products, charge twice as much, force everyone to buy. Sheer perfection!
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