What CNN says Obama will say

According to CNN, here--an "administrative" fix--is what the White House will offer: 

The plan will in part call for insurance policies to be renewed for one year for those who already have insurance policies in the individual market....

If an insurance company does renew a substandard plan, it would be required to do two things. First, it would have to notify the policy holder of alternative coverage options. Second, the company would have to disclose all of the benefits a policy holder will lose if she keeps an existing substandard plan.

Given a sufficiently aggressive consumer-education campaign, it would seem that this could stop a good part of the policy fallout, and much of the political bleeding. But congressional Dems will need to swing back, en masse, toward the WH--as well as take a rowdy counteroffensive against tomorrow's GOP contamination.

 

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[mdblanche]

"Given a sufficiently aggressive consumer-education campaign, it would seem that this could stop a good part of the policy fallout, and much of the political bleeding."

It looks like the plan is to outsource the job to the insurance companies.

"If an insurance company does renew a substandard plan, it would be required to do two things. First, it would have to notify the policy holder of alternative coverage options. Second, the company would have to disclose all of the benefits a policy holder will lose if she keeps an existing substandard plan."

It strikes me as a good idea to let them get that info directly from their insurer rather than allowing unreliable or hostile media middlemen to get in the way.