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Larrry

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Dem senator under fire for pressuring agency to change insurance cancellation stats
Published January 10, 2014
FoxNews.com

Jan. 31, 2013: Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP

Democratic Colorado Sen. Mark Udall is under fire following reports that his staff pressured the Colorado Division of Insurance to walk back its claims that 250,000 people in the state had their health insurance canceled due to ObamaCare.

"It's downright shameful that Sen. Udall would attempt to intimidate state employees to give him political cover," Colorado GOP Chairman Ryan Call told FOX31 in Denver.

The allegations surfaced Thursday after the news site Complete Colorado published emails between Udall's office and the Colorado insurance agency last November. At the time, controversy was heating up over the hundreds of thousands of insurance cancellation notices going out -- the cancellations undercut President Obama's campaign-trail assertions that those who like their health plans can keep them.

Udall's staff challenged the Colorado agency for saying there had been 249,000 cancellations.

"Sen. Udall says our numbers were wrong. They are not wrong," one insurance department official wrote, according to a Nov. 14 email. "Cancellation notices affected 249,199 people. They want to trash our numbers. I'm holding strong while we get more details. Many have already done early renewals. Regardless, they received cancellation notices."

The dispute apparently was over the fact that many of those receiving cancellation notices were also being offered renewals.

"We reached out to the Dept. of Insurance because 250,000 cancellations was radically different than the number we were hearing from the insurance industry," Udall spokesman Mike Saccone told FOX31 Denver. "In fact, 96 percent of Coloradans who received 'cancellation letters' were offered an opportunity to renew their current coverage. To the average Coloradan, that is not a cancellation."

Udall's office wanted that clarification to be made.

But the tone of the emails drew accusations of intimidation.

One email showed the same insurance agency official telling colleagues she got a "very hostile phone call" from Udall's deputy chief of staff.

Another email showed a Udall staffer telling the division "we need to move on this ASAP -- or we'll be forced to challenge the 249K number ourselves."


Brook Hougesen, a spokeswoman with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement that Udall "authorized his staff to pressure and intimidate state officials to manipulate health care cancellation statistics resulting from ObamaCare."

Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., also wrote a letter on Thursday to state Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar pressing for details about their insurance cancellation calculations.

Salazar told the Denver Post there was no "ongoing pattern of intimidation" with Udall's office.

Udall also told the Denver Post it was "really important to correct the record."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/10/dem-senator-under-fire-over-pressure-to-change-insurance-cancellation-stats/

I thought obamacare was so wonderful, but they need to do this
 

Tam

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We were also told that the website has been fixed and is working great signing up over a million people in just the last couple of weeks in Dec. But if that is true then why did Obama fire the IT company that built the site and was in charge of fixing it yesterday because of their inability to fix the problems they are experiencing with said website

It is either fixed and working great like they claim or it isn't. Since they hired a second IT company to the tune of 90 million to fix the site I'd have to guess they are LYING about it being fixed for POLITICAL REASONS

The numbers are as they claim or they are LYING and forcing the insurance companies to cover up their LIES FOR POLITICAL REASONS.

The emails prove with no doubt they are putting the pressure on to fudge the insured numbers just like they did with the UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS PRIOR TO THE ELECTION.

If you have learned nothing else from this Administration you should have learned to NOT TRUST THEIR NUMBERS.
 
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