By failing to identify private insurers as wicked the WH does a disservice

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re: The phenomenon of cancellation letters announcing large price increases mandated by Obamacare

The real biggest problem with the Obamcare roll-out is not some web-site, it is the failure to "demonize" private insurers because such "demonization" is key to protecting the public.

This is not just about Obamacare, of course. We have a long, long tradition of government not bad-mouthing business, and it sucks.

Everyone should have been informed up front that private insurers would attempt certain swindles. (That's what the are) There should be ads on TV telling people that they may receive a letter from their insurer saying X, but that the letter may well b an attempt to swindle them.

It was surely a known thing that insurers would set up automatic default moves (if the insured did nothing) into crazy-expensive plans for canceled coverages.

So how the hell did we, the nation, experience this whole cancellation letter, my plan went up 100% thing???

Where are the PSAs warning the nation in advance that insurers would try to tell people that Obamacare had doubled their premiums? Of course insurers would LIKE to double your premiums and has no interest in you getting cheaper insurance through an exchange... it is hardly an unforeseeable move.

OF COURSE they will try to charge more. That is why a letter from a private insurer cannot be the only communication on the topic. It cannot be left to private insurers to explain the wonders of Obamacare.


But for the government to aid the public in defense against predictable predation would be communism, I guess.