The Hill -- The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats.
As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.
Prolonging the “keep your plan” fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall.
The cancellations would have created a firestorm for Democratic candidates in the last, crucial weeks before Election Day.
The White House is intent on protecting its allies in the Senate, where Democrats face a battle to keep control of the chamber.
“I don’t see how they could have a bunch of these announcements going out in September,” one consultant in the health insurance industry said. “Not when they’re trying to defend the Senate and keep their losses at a minimum in the House. This is not something to have out there right before the election.”
The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on Monday both said they had no updates to announce.
Blog author’s comments – There was no effort whatsoever to alleviate the damage done by 0bamacare until Obama and his administration realized how much this threatened the Democrat politicians who are up for reelection in November. The catalyst was not damage done to American families, the catalyst was Democrat political careers, and then action was required to save Democrat jobs. Obama does not care how his law affects the people.
The insurance companies must be tired of Obama’s delay game. They have already made the changes that were mandated by the 'law', they can't just stop and change direction based on the political timetable of Obama and his administration who are attempting to hold on to the Senate. Obama has finally realized that if the Obamacare ‘law’ is not delayed he could very well be a lame duck president his last two years in office. All of the delays to the Obamacare 'law' have been about politics and the 2014 midterm elections.
