Half-man, half-rodent, all moron.
Via Breitbart:
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), who serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, called the private sale of cheap health individual insurance plans “the worst abuses of the insurance industry” and said that Obamacare would halt those abuses. Waxman was defending the new standards Obamacare established for individual plans, which is causing the cancellation of millions of plans.
Waxman was speaking during a hearing featuring testimony from Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, who defended the cancellations and said that President Barack Obama had not, in fact, broken his promise that people who liked their health insurance plan could keep it. People were not being dropped, she said–they were just being given better health insurance plans that they were required to buy.
Following Waxman, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) compared the cancellations to the government forcing drivers to trade in Fords to buy Ferraris. Under Waxman’s logic, the fact that consumers might benefit from cheaper plans, even if those plans did not offer the same array of benefits, is irrelevant. The free choice of individual consumers and insurance providers offering a legal and beneficial product is defined as “abuse.”