One of President Obama’s most ardent liberal supporters has defected from Obamacare.
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I’M VOTING WITH THE PRES: Jared Polis listens to a House debate to repeal Obamacare.
Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, told a Colorado health policy think tank that Obamacare premiums will be too expensive for some of the wealthiest addresses in America – ski resorts like Breckenridge and Keystone. He says he’s asking the feds to let them sit out the president’s national health system.
“We will be encouraging a waiver,” Polis told Health Policy Solutions in a story that ran today. “It will be difficult for Summit County residents to become insured. For the vast majority, it’s too high a price to pay.”
The resorts are in Summit County and Aspen is in a neighboring county, which Polis also represents. He has consistently voted in favor of Obamacare."...
Part of that is rural customers will not have as much competition and so rates will be higher. And while resort town residents don't make a lot, the rural poor in other parts make even less.
More reasons why people will choose to pay the fine. #unintendedconsequences
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Why does what county you live in matter to the rates that much?
It is because medicine is more expensive there?
Perhaps a private system of insurance would insure that the companies placed the costs where they belong, where medicine is more expensive and with the sick and old? Or gasp, just outlaw insurance for medicine and I bet all of a sudden the rates for medical procedures start to match what people can afford, like the rates for everything else not regulated to no end.
Part of the problem is there aren't as many insurance plan choices and competition in rural areas. Insurance plans know they will have less customers in a rural county than the metro area and it will raise the expense of servicing their customers.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Why should the wealthy people in Summit county be force to opt into overly inflated health insurance. The whole idea of Obamacare is that the young healthy people sign up and since they are at a very low risk of actually needing any health insurance payment, they are essentially paying for the old, the sick.
Let the "kids" support Obamacare. That was the plan all along. Leave the rich alone.
This is obvious political meandering to dumbed down voters, nothing else. This schmuck is just getting out in front of the bad news before his voters get their obamacare insurance bills and tax penalties. Waivers for Summit county, haha. Good one. And then this schmuck will get re-elected easy. Ho Hum Enjoy
“We will be encouraging a waiver,” Polis told Health Policy Solutions in a story that ran today. “It will be difficult for Summit County residents to become insured. For the vast majority, it’s too high a price to pay.”
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
Jared Polis is a true politician.
What does this say about the Affordable Care Act that even unions and politicians are saying that their members and voters can't afford it?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Give anyone that comes along, any group, rich or poor, young or old, let them ask for waivers. This is the best publicity for what professionals, news media and pundits have been saying all along... this whole Obamacare is a fraud. It's not working and it won't work.
"If you like your insurance you can keep it" will become a cultural icon at the same level of Lincoln's statement "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Obama believes himself to be so much like Lincoln? Well... being recognized throughout history by a famous phrase is one way to do that.
Like left of center Kristen Powers said last night on TV "Not quite the way they sold it.” Her personally purchased insurance policy has been canceled and the Washington DC health care exchange quotes will double her insurance rates with a higher deductible.
Let the waivers begin. Come on Kristen... make a proposal... start with waivers for the left wing media.
