Obama Admin Threatens to Destroy Insurers Who Criticize Obamacare

The gangsters have spoken. Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to insurers last Thursday telling them they had better stop blaming rate increases on Obamacare, or they will be excluded from insurance exchanges starting in 2014, when the government monopoly on health care begins. After that, the Health Secretary will be responsible for approving all policies sold in the United States. According to the Obama Administration, there shall be no free speech for insurance companies. You vill toe the party line, and YOU VILL LIKE IT! Sebelius stated that "there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases." So, unfunded mandates are OK, but complaining about them is VERBOTEN!

Washington Examiner states, "The threat to use government regulation to destroy or harm someone's business because they disagree with government officials is thuggery. Like the Obama administration's transfer of money from Chrysler bondholders to its political allies in the United Auto Workers, it is a form of gangster government."

Zero tolerance for expressing an opinion, or offering an explanation to policyholders? They’re more subtle than this in Caracas. …
This is nasty stuff and an obvious attempt to shift political blame for rising insurance costs before the election. It’s also an early sign of life under ObamaCare, when all health-care decisions are political and the bureaucrats decide who can charge how much for a service or product.

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Oh, don't worry. There is no government takeover of Health Care. Sen. Kent Conrad says so.