by Jona Goldberge, LA Times
All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it…. I’m infuriated because I was lied to,” one woman told this newspaper, as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of Obamacare.
And that lie looks like the biggest lie about domestic policy ever uttered by a U.S. president.
The most famous presidential lies have to do with misconduct (Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” or Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations”) or war. Woodrow Wilson campaigned on the slogan “He kept us out of war” and then plunged us into a calamitous war. Franklin D. Roosevelt made a similar vow. “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
Jack: The ACA was written so that if the slightest deviation occurs from grandfather clause exception, the policy gets cancelled for being substandard. in other words if you’re a 58 year old woman you will have to carry that pregnancy rider.
My business policy informed me today in a letter about the new taxes that will be piled on to my insurance. there are four. Two will go into affect in 2014 and the remaining two will be added in 2015. Now what I knowe about taxes is that they never remain at the percentage they started. I left the letter at work…the names are typically leftist as are the reasons for the new taxes.
Were we not told that the middle class wasn’t going to eb taxed? They will be; they just might not notice.
This talking point has already been played out.
Could you please explain the grandfather clause in the ACA ?
Also what happens if an Insurance company changes something in the policy?
The biggest President Lie? The war in Iraq? War criminals GW and Cheney? Obama had to put in for Immunity against war crimes for the Bush Admin
And who put the phoney war on the credit card? Spending?
Independent voters do not have to protect any Politician
Dewey, you are posting to the wrong article for info on ACA. Please go to that article to receive your answer.
Yup, he lied and there’s proof.
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How the Administration Knew Americans Would Lose Their Current Health Plans:
There has been much chatter about an NBC News report last night highlighting one clear fact: The Obama Administration knew millions of Americans would lose their current health plans due to Obamacare. That the Administration knew about the impact of Obamacare on Americans’ health plans is clear, not least because internal Administration documents suggest an effort to downplay the law’s impact to the public.
At issue are regulations issued in June 2010 implementing the “grandfathering” provisions of Obamacare. In theory, this section of the law was intended to allow individuals to keep their existing health plans if they liked them. However, as a leaked draft of the “grandfathering” regulations reveals, the Administration knew that would not be the case. This paragraph, on page 56 of the leaked draft, admits that “most plans will relinquish their grandfathered status” over time—in other words, many Americans will lose their existing health coverage (emphasis added):
After careful consideration, the Departments opted against rules that would require a plan or sponsor to relinquish its grandfathered status if only relatively small changes are made to the plan. The importance of gradual change outweighs the risk of market segmentation. Similarly, the Departments concluded that sponsors and issuers of grandfathered plans should be permitted to take steps within the boundaries of the grandfather definition to control costs, including limited increases in cost-sharing and other plan changes not prohibited by these interim final regulations. As noted earlier, deciding to relinquish grandfather status is a one-way sorting process: after some period of time, most plans will relinquish their grandfathered status since plans rarely stay exactly the same. These interim final regulation will likely influence the time frame over which plan sponsors decide to relinquish grandfathered status.
Compare that paragraph to a very similar paragraph on page 11 of the official, publicly released regulation. The final version struck a sentence emphasizing “the importance of gradual change” in transitioning health coverage to the new, post-Obamacare regime—and said that “more plans,” not “most plans,” will relinquish their grandfathered status over time. In other words, the Obama Administration tried to massage and downplay the regulation’s impact on Americans’ ability to keep their health coverage, even though the substantive contents of the rule changed very little from the leaked draft to the official document.
For millions of Americans—as many as 16 million who buy their own health insurance, according to one estimate—Obamacare will prove anything but a “gradual change.” They are losing their existing health plans and have no good options. Some will migrate to Obamacare’s new (non-functioning) exchanges, where the law’s new requirements mean their premiums could increase substantially. This is change—a change that Heritage predicted—but it’s not the change President Obama sold to the American people.
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/29/how-the-administration-knew-americans-would-lose-their-current-health-plan/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Most of the policies I have seen are junk insurance. I can’t believe they were allowed to be sold in the first place. One thing I haven’t heard is that the self-funded insurers are exempt from these laws. Most of the big corporations are self-funded so these regulations don’t apply to them. I’m surprised we haven’t heard about this. My kids are insured through our employer and because it is a self-funded plan many of the new rules don’t apply. And this coverage is outrageously expensive but we can’t insure the kids through the exchange because the coverage offered to us is affordable by the matrix even though the coverage for the kids isn’t. I don’t understand all of the howling by these people though. The insurance offered through the exchanges is more affordable with better coverage. Some of the plans I’ve seen from these complainers are insane. One person was paying $100 a month for a crazy high deductible and not hospitalization. What is the point?
Princess: “I don’t understand all of the howling by these people though. The insurance offered through the exchanges is more affordable with better coverage.”
It is for some and it is for now
We were promised that the average family would see their premiums reduced by $2500. That is not the reality for a lot of Americans. They will pay higher premiums, higher out of pocket at the time of service and a deductible that will not be met most years which means they will be paying for all of there were too many people without insurance will not be their healthcare out of pocket…except a few things like birth control.
The other thing is a driver of higher healthcare costs, too many people without insurance, was not solved with this law.
Nothing about this law will drive the cost of care down.
There is a better way. I don’t understand the average persons continued support for a law filled with the same problems and that was sold to them on a pack of lies and deceptions.
It’s like we traded a stomach ache for a migraine headache. Makes no sense unless you understand that the purpose was federal control all along. Obama wanted a pathway to the socialist model of single payer.
Change the channel