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Health insurance companies in 2016 are objecting to the costs of providing health insurance. They blame the Obama Administration for extending enrollment periods during which more people sign up for health insurance. See Robert Pear, "Insurers Say Costs Are Climbing as More Enroll Past Health Act Deadline" (New York Times Online, Sunday, January 10, 2016).
Lawyers who meet more poor people than health insurers during their careers point out in the article that poor people are not generally aware enough of the Affordable Care Act to try to figure out ways to game it.
I understand that the health insurance companies helped to write the law.
In any case, we are left to wonder I suppose what complaint in 2016 these same health insurance companies would have, if the costs of providing health insurance were the same as they are now because all of the people signing up during the extension actually signed up before the original deadline?
Objecting to an extension reminds me of the occasions during litigation when a few lawyers were known to habitually complain about opposing counsel receiving an extension on a deadline in a court case. These same lawyers would often ask for an extension for themselves and their clients without blushing.
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