Cohen’s letter also goes further than the words Obama used Thursday to hedge his bets while he outlined a new strategy to allow Americans to keep policies that their insurers have already canceled. ‘My working assumption was that the majority of those folks would find better policies at lower cost or the same cost in the marketplaces,’ he said. ‘We will continue to make the case, even to folks who choose to keep their own plans,’ Obama promised minutes later, ‘that they should shop around in the new marketplace because there’s a good chance that they’ll be able to buy better insurance at lower cost.’ That ‘good chance’ of cost savings is a weaker standard than the White House has employed before with messaging that promised no insurance price hikes to ‘most people.’
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 03:48:40 +0000