" Even the Washington Post's editorial board is getting sick of the sabotage.
As The Post's Sandhya Somashekhar reported last week, Republicans at the state level also have applied a variety of less visible measures to impede the law's implementation. Some won't enforce consumer protections, including a ban on insurance companies rejecting patients with pre-existing conditions. The result will be illegal discrimination. Another tactic has been restricting the work of federal "navigators," consumer assistants who help people understand their options and get coverage. [...]
Though some analysts offer explanations for why state governments might make one or another of these decisions, states taking these steps are unwise at best. To the extent they represent a deliberate policy to derail the law, such steps are worse than misguided. Georgia's state government is doing "everything in our power to be an obstructionist," Ralph Hudgens, the state's insurance commissioner, boasted.
"The result," the editorial added, "will be more people without health insurance."
Even the Washington Post's editorial board is getting sick of the sabotage.
As The Post's Sandhya Somashekhar reported last week, Republicans at the state level also have applied a variety of less visible measures to impede the law's implementation. Some won't enforce consumer protections, including a ban on insurance companies rejecting patients with pre-existing conditions. The result will be illegal discrimination. Another tactic has been restricting the work of federal "navigators," consumer assistants who help people understand their options and get coverage. [...]
Though some analysts offer explanations for why state governments might make one or another of these decisions, states taking these steps are unwise at best. To the extent they represent a deliberate policy to derail the law, such steps are worse than misguided. Georgia's state government is doing "everything in our power to be an obstructionist," Ralph Hudgens, the state's insurance commissioner, boasted.
"The result," the editorial added, "will be more people without health insurance."
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