Posted on 07/16/2009 6:19:30 PM PDT by Starman417
The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states: "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage.
The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether."
What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law. 
The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less, than HSAs.
With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the welfare state will be removed. The public option won't be an option for many, but rather a mandate for buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft tyranny.
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What company would continue to absorb the cost and bureaucratic process of a private plan when they can simply dump their employees’ healthcare plan and force them onto the rationed “care” the government mandates?
Not only do they save overhead, their stock prices will rise as a result.
I don’t think this is going to pass, unless Washington wants to be burnt to the ground.
pitchfork, check
torch, check
tar, check
feathers, check
rail, check
rope, check
lamppost, check
The SEIU had their rent-a-picket crew out in downtown Indianapolis yesterday plugging Baraqqicare.
What disgusts me is that all the local tv news outlets present video of this like it’s some kind of legitimate support for socialized medicine rather than a bunch of union hacks diverted from their janitor jobs for the afternoon.
Did you ever watch the movie Shaka Zulu? Thats what they deserve for this.
And under Obamacare, the elderly will be the first to be tossed aside. 3 minute video:
Some where in all this will be a clause that when you die your heirs will find a lien slapped on any property you leave for them. If you cannot legally opt out of the system, everything you’ve worked for all your life could end up in government hands.
Hmmmm...
Strange, UNION people demonstrating for a plan which
they specifically lobbied for and got special
dispensation to opt out of...
It’s coming, and it’s gonna get UGLY.
The tough part is going to be determining who the bad guys are when they don’t have their signs.
Wanna bet that trips the whole "you're not allowed to have a new policy" clause?
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