red states rule
11-11-2013, 11:14 AM
As the cost of Obamacare continues to soar - so does the number of people who could lose their coverage thanks to Obamacare. I am waiting for someone on the left to get really desperate and blame Bush for it
The Left's latest talking point is that "only" five percent (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/07/video-watch-obama-kinda-sorta-apologize-to-americans-losing-their-health-plans/) of the US insurance market is affected by President Obama's "keep your plan" lie. Left unmentioned is that this small-sounding slice of the population amounts to millions of human beings. But as Avik Roy (http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/31/obama-officials-in-2010-93-million-americans-will-be-unable-to-keep-their-health-plans-under-obamacare/) and others have pointed out, the White House's go-to stat is a lowball estimate. The real number of affected Americans will be an order of magnitude higher than Obamacare's defenders are willing to concede. McClatchy's analysis concludes that tens of millions (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/07/207909/analysis-tens-of-millions-could.html) of Americans will experience the president's broken promise firsthand once the law is fully implemented:
Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies. “If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period,” Obama said as he pitched the plan, the unqualified promise he made repeatedly. Yet advisers did say in 2010 that there were large caveats and that anyone whose insurance plan changed would lose the promised protection of being able to keep existing plans. And a report in 2010 said that as many as 69 percent of certain employer-based insurance plans would lose that protection, meaning as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans. Another 11 million who bought their own insurance also could lose their plans. Combined, as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans.
It's impossible to waive away 52 million (or more) citizens as "anecdotes," or a rounding error. Will Harry Reid allow a vote on the "If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It" Act? NBC News (http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21222195-obama-administration-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance) and the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303843104579172002892623382) have reported that the administration explicitly knew that the the president's categorical pledge was false. They chose to perpetrate the deception for cynical political purposes. This clip from 2010 demonstrates (http://majorityleader.gov/video/obama-admits-he-would-break-his-promise/) that Obama knew exactly what he was doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHCmpzPZJ1s
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/11/11/report-52-million-americans-could-lose-current-coverage-under-obamacare-n1744103
The Left's latest talking point is that "only" five percent (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/07/video-watch-obama-kinda-sorta-apologize-to-americans-losing-their-health-plans/) of the US insurance market is affected by President Obama's "keep your plan" lie. Left unmentioned is that this small-sounding slice of the population amounts to millions of human beings. But as Avik Roy (http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/31/obama-officials-in-2010-93-million-americans-will-be-unable-to-keep-their-health-plans-under-obamacare/) and others have pointed out, the White House's go-to stat is a lowball estimate. The real number of affected Americans will be an order of magnitude higher than Obamacare's defenders are willing to concede. McClatchy's analysis concludes that tens of millions (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/07/207909/analysis-tens-of-millions-could.html) of Americans will experience the president's broken promise firsthand once the law is fully implemented:
Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies. “If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period,” Obama said as he pitched the plan, the unqualified promise he made repeatedly. Yet advisers did say in 2010 that there were large caveats and that anyone whose insurance plan changed would lose the promised protection of being able to keep existing plans. And a report in 2010 said that as many as 69 percent of certain employer-based insurance plans would lose that protection, meaning as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans. Another 11 million who bought their own insurance also could lose their plans. Combined, as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans.
It's impossible to waive away 52 million (or more) citizens as "anecdotes," or a rounding error. Will Harry Reid allow a vote on the "If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep It" Act? NBC News (http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21222195-obama-administration-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance) and the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303843104579172002892623382) have reported that the administration explicitly knew that the the president's categorical pledge was false. They chose to perpetrate the deception for cynical political purposes. This clip from 2010 demonstrates (http://majorityleader.gov/video/obama-admits-he-would-break-his-promise/) that Obama knew exactly what he was doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHCmpzPZJ1s
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/11/11/report-52-million-americans-could-lose-current-coverage-under-obamacare-n1744103