Juan Williams: Insurance Companies Canceling Policies Just To Be Vindictive

Fox News Commentator Juan Williams wrote a commentary on the network's website where he explains the source of the canceled policies causing the controversy about the President's "keep your insurance, period" lie -- those vindictive insurance companies.

He follows up with additional straw dogs, saying that people who opposed Obamacare had no right to criticize its implementation, and then he admonishes Republican governors who did not agree to the Medicaid expansion. While the expansion is part of the Obamacare law, it has nothing to do with people losing their insurance plans or the high costs of the exchange-based insurance.

That's when Williams gets into his real argument Instead of blaming the President or the law; you should be blaming the insurance companies for selling you stupid people lousy insurance:

You should be blaming your insurance company because they have not been providing you with coverage that meets the minimum basic standards for health care.

Let me put it more bluntly: your insurance companies have been taking advantage of you, and the Affordable Care Act puts in place consumer protection and tells them to stop abusing people.

The government did not “force” insurance companies to cancel their own substandard policies. The insurance companies chose to do that rather than do what is right and bring the policies up to code.

This would be like saying the government “forces” chemical companies to dispose of toxic waste safely rather than dumping it in the river.

He concludes with an attack on the insurance industry:

The American health insurance industry is one of the most profitable in the history of the world. Before the ACA, they made money by finding any excuse, any loophole to deny coverage to the sickest and most vulnerable people in our society.

Rather than being vindictive and canceling policies under the pretext of ObamaCare, the insurance companies should be thanking their lucky stars that they do not have to contend with a public option or a single payer system. That is what the law allows in every other modern industrialized democracy.

Williams is being blinded by his hard-core progressive philosophy, which teaches that adults are not smart enough to make the correct decisions for themselves. That's why they need big government to tell them what to do.

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