President Obama promised that if you have health insurance now, it won't change. Here are sevn ways he lied:
1) Under the new law your insurer can't drop your coverage after you get sick. This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied.
2) Your children can continue to be insured under your plan until they are 26. (Click and read this.) This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied.
3) New coverage is added, including preventative care like mammograms and colonoscopies with no "out of pocket" like charging a deductible, co-pay or coinsurance. This is a change in the insurance you already have. Obama lied.
4) If you pay for your own insurance and your income is below a certain level, you will receive subsidies to help pay for your insurance. Even if you earn four times the federal poverty rate, or currently about $93,000 for a family of four, you will have to pay no more than 9.5 percent of your income. This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied.
5) The law prohibits insurance companies from placing a "lifetime cap" on the amount of coverage you have. Many people were discovering that they reached this cap right when they needed insurance the most. This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied.
6) The cost of your insurance will be lower than it would be without this law. There are several ways the new law will lower the cost of your insurance. First, by requiring people to have insurance, people can't "free load" by showing up at the emergency room without insurance. Currently when this happens hospitals charge more to everyone else. So the new law's "mandate" stops the "free loaders" -- the cause of these extra charges -- from running up your insurance cost. Also, the new law's "80/20 Rule" says insurers have to use 80 percent of their revenue for health care. This even means you might get a rebate. This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied.
7) Insurers won/'t be able to keep you from getting insurance or charge you more based on a pre-existing condition. This is a change in the coverage you already have. Obama lied.
So President Obama lied when he said that if you already have health coverage you don't have to worry about changes! Therefore we need to get rid of the law so insurers can cut you off after you get sick, charge you for preventative care, cut your children off from having insurance, keep you from getting insurance if you have a pre-existing condition, place a lifetime "cap" on your coverage and make you pay more! It's time to put some teeth into "let him die!"
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These things proved so popular they were to remain even
if the SCOTUS ruled against the ACA.
He let people assume that all changes or "lack of changes" would cost very little or nothing or all. The truth is that they will be very expensive, will be financed by spiraling debt, higher costs, slew of new taxes ( visit: http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-tax-hikes-obamacare-a5758 )
Costs will spiral out of control, bankrupt many small businesses, give huge amounts of power to politicians, bureaucrats who will make decisions for individuals.
Obama, Democrats have never answered questions as to where all new doctors, medical personnel, hospitals, drugs and supplies will come from to meet the increased demands for services as 40 million people are given insurance that they pay very little for or is free (means other people pay for it).
It takes 12 years to train doctors. People now wait 2-3 months to see specialists right now, so with increased demand, price controls, rationing and even death panels (called by some other innocuous name) will be necessary. (None of these actions will work.)
Many doctors will find that government payments are way too low and many will likely quit or be forced out of business, further aggravating the supply problem.
ObamaCare is all empty promises, smoke and mirrors and a blatant attempt to buy votes.
Traitor isn't just an act of sedition any more. It's a charge one party (typically Republicans) makes against the other when they say just about anything. Ann Coulter may be one of the originators. It's most recent misuse is against party members deemed insufficiently extreme, or of a judge ruling out of character (recently punctuated).
Liberal has become a pejorative in the right of center diction. Socialism, communism, Marxism and fascism have become interchangeable darts thrown at people, law and policies the right doesn't approve.
Fact has changed definition, along with opinion. Both sides spout opinion fashioned as a statement of fact, and now disagree with facts as though they were opinions.
Science, study, research (and funding of it) are now considered play toys of political objectives, alternately used to profess unfounded opinions or object to opposition of preconceived ideology. They are frequently used as pejoratives, especially on the subjects of evolution and global warming.
I'm not sure math works the same way it used to, either, given our budget discussions.
History has mutated; it refers to patriotic fiction now.
Tax, penalty and mandate are recent, infamous language mutilations.
Health and care are being reconsidered.
Rational and reality may require adjustment, too.
If the Republicans are not going to actually DO anything for much needed health care reform, they should at least have the good sense to get out of the way of the people who are doing something.
You might claim that health insurance is too important to be left to such companies, but where do you draw the line? Someone could claim that cars are too important to people to be made and sold by profit oriented companies. Where is the line drawn? Should you have the power to make it, or are you content to let corrupt politicians make such choices. We have in the past and the results has been costly and disastrous.
What is scarier is the politicians and bureaucrats taking over and making decisions for people, running up huge debts, increasing their power, buying votes and special favors, new taxes and controls........but without evil profit.
The lie you are following is it has to be that we either, a.)don't have any of those things you listed which are all admirable, OR, b.) it must be done in this one way & no other way at all. That is certainly not true.
- cricketdiane
The only system that makes sense is single payer, Medicare for All. Insurance companies have 25% overhead to cover costs for advertising, exorbitant salaries for CEOs and profits for shareholders. The overhead cost for Medicare is 3-5% which obviously makes health care more affordable. Also, everyone understands Medicare so there is no mystery.
One especially brilliant aspect of Obamacare is that states are free to opt out if they create a state system that covers the same number of people at the same cost or better. This calls the bluff of Republicans who say they want to repeal and replace Obamacare. All they have to do is come up with a better system!
Vermont has already started making plans for a single-payer system and other states like California are considering it. I predict that eventually, blue states will have universal care and the red states will continue to have overcrowded emergency rooms.
We need Medicare-for-All, but until we can rally enough people who understand the problem of corporations vs We, the People, this health care act helps a lot of people.
That's why they feel they need to repeal the law.
Republicans say that Americans want:
the freedom to have their insurance cut you after they get sick,
the freedom to be chargeed for preventative care,
the freedom to have their children cut off from having insurance,
the freedom to be prevented from getting insurance if you have a pre-existing condition - and being stuck in place with their feudal lord corporation,
the freedom to have corporations place a lifetime "cap" on your coverage and,
the freedom to pay more for less
Republican FREEDOM....
Or, even the FREEDOM to do it yourself.
FREEDOM!....