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

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4. From the government's point of view,

that would be a bad idea, wouldn't it? The ACA puts private insurers front and center in the grand plan to make health insurance affordable, going so far as to make buying said insurance from said insurers mandatory.

If the government goes on the TV and start demonizing the private insurers - pointing out how conscienceless they really are and that they will do the things you mention - wouldn't that feed over into peoples' perception of the (very same) companies that they are required to deal with through the ACA?

Wouldn't it make sense that those people who are happily (dutifully, etc) signing up for coverage through the exchanges might start to look askance at the companies that they will be insuring with through the ACA? Wondering, perhaps, if those companies will be as predatory toward them, the eager participants in the ACA, as they are toward to the hapless victims stuck with employer health coverage?

When you provide sheepskins for wolves, you can't tell one flock that the ugly sheep in their midst is a predator and expect the other flocks' to buy that the equally ugly sheep in their midst are just ugly sheep.