Posted on 10/05/2011 6:06:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
When the Kaiser Family Foundation reported last week that insurance premiums had climbed 9.5% this year — the biggest increase since 2004 — it looked as though a key promise of Obama-Care had been broken.
Indeed, just before he signed the health reform law, President Obama said it would "bring down the cost of health care for families, for businesses, and for the federal government." Instead, average family premiums have climbed $2,393 since 2008, the Kaiser survey found.
This is the latest ObamaCare prediction that has failed to materialize. If the history of state and federal health care reforms is any guide, it won't be the last.
Among other busted forecasts:
ObamaCare promised immediate help via subsidized "high-risk pools" for the millions that the administration said were denied coverage. The White House expected 375,000 would rush to sign up by the end of last year. As of July 2011, only about 30,000 had, according to the Health and Human Services Department.
Backers of the reforms failed to predict the impact of raising annual payment caps on low-cost health plans that many smaller companies offer. As a result, the administration had to approve more than 1,500 waivers, or risk seeing the ranks of the uninsured swell by 3.4 million.
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Of course Obama has admitted many times that he is a Muslim. Sometime ago I put a vido montage of his speeches showing him sying it, and of course we all remember that TV interview where he said, MMy Muslim faith.
One word: REPEAL!
They hammer Obama hard at times (who read it besides FReepers?---Bankers?!), then slip in Dionne and the Belmonts.
Hep me out here
Failed to materialize? Unintended consequences? Call them what they are - premeditated lies!
The same is true of the Christian Science Monitor. It used to be solidly conservative.
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