White House spokesman Jay Carney ducked questions about former President Bill Clinton’s dramatic call for President Barack Obama to let people keep their current insurance, but said Obama is considering regulatory help
for people whose insurance has been canceled.
for people whose insurance has been canceled.
In a Tuesday interview, Clinton said people should be allowed to keep their current insurance programs past January, principally because Obama promised they could keep their insurance.
programs past January, principally because Obama promised they could keep their insurance.
“The president has asked his team to look at ways to address that problem,” Carney said, when asked about Clinton’s comments.
At least three million Americans’ individually-purchased insurance has been canceled by Obamacare.
“We haven’t announced one way or the other. … For details of what is under consideration, we haven’t announced any potential fixes,” Carney said. He declined to provide further details, “until [Obama] has chosen which option to pursue.”
fixes,” Carney said. He declined to provide further details, “until [Obama] has chosen which option to pursue.”
However, he suggested that Obama could let people sign up early for 2014 insurance under pre-Obamacare rules, and that state regulators have some leeway to delay federal mandates.
He also said that federal regulators have the legal authority to allow some people to keep buying pre-Obamacare insurance, and that Obama wants to reduce the cost of buying Obamacare-compliant insurance.
However, Obama’s suggestion that he would change the rules creates new problems for his Obamacare network.
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