WASHINGTON – The DC mayor fired his insurance commissioner the day after the official objected to President Obama’s move to delay health plan cancellations.
DC Insurance Commissioner William White got his walking papers Friday from a deputy to Mayor Vincent Gray, who told him the mayor “wants to go in a different direction.”
White told the Washington Post in Sunday’s edition that the timing couldn’t be ignored, although he said the deputy never mentioned his criticism of the president’s fix for the millions of people dropped from health plans because of ObamaCare.
White, who held the post for nearly three years, said that he was “basically being told, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’”
Neither the mayor’s office nor the White House would answer questions about White’s termination.
A day earlier, White was one of the first insurance commissioners in the country to push back against Obama’s plan to let them decide how to revive health plans outlawed by ObamaCare.
He said it “undercuts the purpose of the exchanges … by creating exceptions that make it more difficult for them to operate.”
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners raised similar complaints.
White’s statement was removed from the city Web site as he was shown the door.