In a recent op-ed in the Wall St. Journal Alan Blinder supported the
President’s attempt to weasel out of his health care promise by calling the
health plans that millions of Americans are losing “sub-par”. I believe the
President calls these plans sub-standard. But in his long op-ed defending the
Affordable Care Act Mr. Blinder, like the President, never bothered to detail
just what was so sub-par about those plans.
Recently, other op-eds as well as letters in the
Journal have shown that some of these below standard plans have actually paid
substantial benefits to claimants, as well as providing good service to
policyholders. One woman even received over 1.2 million in benefits and
obviously loved her plan.
So what is so sub-par about these plans? As far as
I can tell, they lack a provision for free health club membership. They also
fail to provide free contraceptives. I also suspect that they fail to include
dental and vision care. I’m sure that in the minds of the President and Mr.
Blinder there are other deficiencies but I’m also sure that most people chose
coverage that met their needs, especially for large ticket items. Most health
care consumers liked their plans because they had chosen the deductible and
co-insurance provisions that suited their needs.
Now, despite the President’s promise, millions will
lose their coverage and be forced into one size fits all plans that will
contain benefits that they neither want nor need.
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