Stunner! White House admits Obamacare kills policies

[Jeff]

It didn't take much to know this was going to fail but to many it is a surprise how badly it is failing, If they can prove ( which it looks like they have already done ) that While shoving this down our throats and promising we could keep the healthcare we have if we like it and knowing that wasn't going to be the case it seems to me this was all a lie ( like everything else Obama says ) but we ought to be able to void the Bill due to the lies, although I am sure it will go down more on the lines of you should know what you are voting for and it seems Lib's are learning a costly lesson, as for the rest of us we are paying like we knew we would.





Is it possible that things really still can get worse for supporters of Obamacare, the president’s signature accomplishment, the law that was voted through by only Democrats during a lame-duck session of Congress?
Decide for yourself.
On Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney admitted the law is killing off health insurance policies that Americans currently hold, and NBC reported that the administration knew that was what would happen as long as three years ago.
At least two different investigations are being launched by Congress, a commentary showed that even the paper signup process for Obamacare doesn’t work, and Alaska simply gave up – canceling signups because virtually no one was participating.





http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/stunner-white-house-admits-obamacare-kills-policies/

[CSM]

It is ironic that the law as it is being executed is NOT the law that was ruled on by the Supreme Court. Not that it would matter as the Supreme Court would just change the law to meet any challenge by those evil, cold hearted conservatives. I wonder if the "monkey court" could do better.

[aboutime]

Perhaps we need to take a look at Obama's list of accomplishments.

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Find a comfortable chair, or place to sit. Prop up your feet.
Get your favorite drink, and enjoy.

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[red states rule]

Hey, what is all the huffing and puffing about? A "journalist" at TIME is telling us there is a bright side too Obama lying to us





Obama’s promise of coverage continuity (http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1999208,00.html) has been broken for those who currently buy private plans on the open market, but many may be better off. The individual health insurance plans being cancelled this fall are generally being discontinued because they do not meet new ACA standards for insurance. The law requires that plans cover a package of what the federal government defines as “essential health benefits (https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/essential-health-benefits/).” These include basic categories of care, including hospitalization, emergency care, maternity services, mental health services and prescription drugs. The law also limits out-of-pocket spending and bans insurers from setting various annual and lifetime limits on coverage. (To balance the increased cost of covering these services, some insurers have narrowed (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/health/lower-health-insurance-premiums-to-come-at-cost-of-fewer-choices.html?pagewanted=all) the provider networks for plans being offered under the ACA.)
These new standards will lead to more comprehensive coverage for many people. Previously, many plans sold on the open market offered coverage so skimpy that it did not protect consumers from financial ruin. More than 60 percent of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. in 2007 were due to medical bills (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/american_journal_of_medicine_09.pdf). Of those who declared bankruptcy due to medical costs, about three-quarters had health insurance.
As the law’s proponents are fond of noting, in many cases, more expensive coverage will actually cost the same or less than less comprehensive plans offered in the past. Those purchasing coverage on their own through the law’s insurance exchanges will be eligible for new federal subsidies if their earn up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level, about $46,000 for an individual and $95,000 for a family of four.
According to Pickert, folks who are losing their health insurance and having to pay through the nose for new coverage that is more comprehensive -- even if they would be perfectly happy without it -- should be thanking the president for restricting their economic freedom in the name of boosting their health coverage.

Let's explore the stupidity of Pickert's argument by an analogy. If Obama and liberal Democrats did with cell phones and other consumer electronics what they've done with health care, it's doubtful the liberal media could find such a way to spin for him.

Suppose instead of health care, the president gave America the Affordable Cell Phone Communications Act (ACPCA) -- nicknamed ObamaPhone -- promising folks, "if you like your wireless plan, you can keep it," but breaking that promise by pushing folks off of pre-paid bare-bones data plans on dumbphones and into monthly-billed, data-heavy smartphone plans. Also assume the ACPCA mandated every American own a cell phone -- or else pay a fine justified as a "tax" by the Supreme Court -- and that folks had to go through a buggy federal website to shop for a phone and phone plan.
The problem with ObamaCare is not simply a buggy website or broken presidential campaign promises: it's the economically bankrupt command-and-control model behind the health care overhaul. Rather than empowering consumers and opening the market to greater variety of providers and insurance packages, ObamaCare took an already heavily-regulated health insurance market and made matters incredibly worse, not just for insurance providers but ultimately for their customers and inevitably the taxpayer.

Until liberal journalists like Pickert realize that, however, they will continue to phone it in with excuse-making pablum that should be the province of Obama PR flaks and surrogates.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/10/29/time-writer-sees-bright-side-obamacares-broken-promise#ixzz2jBru8TYM