Was it Predictable that Insurance Companies would behave a Certain Way?
I am really sick of the whole "it's the insurance companies!!11!" thing.
Yeah, nobody could have possibly anticipated that insurers would act one way or another.
If the insurers were going to do some dreadful thing or another then one might have assumed that the largest reform/regulation of private health insurance since forever might have addressed whatever the terrible thing is.
If the ACA did not require insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, would they?
That's why they are required to.
See how that works?
It is all-caps STUPID to whine about how some damn thing or another is the fault of the insurers. Yeah... as opposed to what? The insurers would kill your kid if there was a nickel in it. Duh.
The insurers are EVIL. They were evil in 2008. They are Evil in 2013. They will be evil as long as they exist. So what is the point in blaming them for something that anyone could have predicted they would do? Will they apologize? See the error of their ways and straighten up?
A failure or regulation is a failure of regulation is a failure of regulation is a failure of regulation.
If there is no problem then say there is no problem. Maybe there is no problem.
If, however, there is a problem then saying, "It's the insurance companies doing it," is an observation of a natural phenomenon, not an explanation of the blamelessness of policy.
If the ACA was meant to build an impregnable fence keeping out lions and promised "you will never be eaten by a lion" and then lions came in holes in the fence and ate people it would be moronic to blast the twitter-sphere with, "It's the lions that are doing this!"
= new reply since forum marked as read
