Posted on 05/18/2010 2:47:48 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama promised that people who currently have health insurance would not have any changes to their status forced onto them by ObamaCare. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” Obama repeatedly promised, adding that the hundreds of millions of Americans currently insured would not have to change plans, either. Dr. Scott Gottlieb explains in a Wall Street Journal essay exactly how wrong Obama and the Democrats were in making that promise, and describes the “defensive business arrangements” that will eliminate many provider choices for consumers:
President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It’s clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama’s plan.
The health-reform law caps how much insurers can spend on expenses and take for profits. Starting next year, health plans will have a regulated “floor” on their medical-loss ratios, which is the amount of revenue they spend on medical claims. Insurers can only spend 20% of their premiums on running their plans if they offer policies directly to consumers or to small employers. The spending cap is 15% for policies sold to large employers. …
One of the few remaining ways to manage expenses is to reduce the actual cost of the products. In health care, this means pushing providers to accept lower fees and reduce their use of costly services like radiology or other diagnostic testing.
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“President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It’s clear that this promise cannot be kept.”
Let’s be honest here. It was not a promise, it was a LIE!!
Obama is a socialist LIAR!
bflr
Breach of Contract.
I HATE...
The young people are stupid thanks to TV and that is a given.
However - 47% of people 60 and over voted for Obama.
49% of people 45 to 59 years old voted for him too.
How can people be so stupid? The idiots watch TV and their ball games and reality shows.
Well reality is gonna really him when seniors and baby boomers will be fighting and losing to illegal aliens at flooded emergency rooms. Nice job TV-loving idiots and serfs.
There's plenty of conservative TV watchers who wouldn't vote for Obama and his fellow communists.
Holocaust II brought to you by Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the thugs in this Congress. Behold their premeditated genocide of the unborn and the elderly. BTW, the elderly could be you!
Vote them all out and then repeal this genocide before you face their death panel. Big Brother will decide who lives and who dies just like Nazi Germany.
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