Posted on 06/05/2015 10:07:44 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Today’s Short Stories include:
• Obama claims rate hikes mean ObamaCare is working • State Department waves Goodbye to Americans stuck in Yemen • Homosexual demands churches stop calling sodomy a sin • DOJ pays Michigan State Univ to spy on “Far Right” groups
1.) White House: Proposed Health Insurance Rate Hikes Is Proof Obamacare Is Working
Are you startled by the news that insurance companies are planning health insurance rate hikes of 10 percent or more in 37 states? Well that news, according to the White House, is one of the signs that Obamacare is working.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained to reporters that, thanks to Obamacare requirements, insurance companies are forced to report publicly any proposed rate hikes exceeding 10 percent for the coming period. State insurance regulators, he explained, would then conduct a review of the rate increases.
Because these rate increases are now public, Earnest appeared optimistic that the proposed rate increases would not ultimately stand. “The result typically has been that after that state review is conducted, that insurance companies would slash their rates,” he explained.
When asked if rate increases were contrary to Obama’s promise to reduce health care costs through Obamacare, Earnest focused more on the law’s ability to slow down spiking health care premiums.
My Opinion: Ignore that $2500 savings pledge from the campaign. You should have known it was a lie. But we can always count on the low information voter believing everything the media says, so everything is OK. And once we get the Supreme Court to say everything is OK by throwing out existing lawsuits against ObamaCare, then the Regime can boost premiums even more. Raise your hand if you still believe ObamaCare was about affordable, quality healthcare rather than implementing power and control...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Obamacare is doing exactly what Obamacare was obviously designed to do.
The liar libs really had to stretch for that spin.
Accelerate Coward-Piven and destroy the country?
Sshhh. It's a secret.
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