class Americans who were cancelled are not allowed into the political
discussion the way vote-crazed Dems allow their voting blocs---
hyphenates, illegals, gays, criminals, and other social misfits....
Posted on 11/05/2013 4:21:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The president misspoke: What he meant to say, a hundred or so times, was: “If I like your insurance, you can keep it.” You may like your insurance, but that is not quite good enough for the Obama administration.
Contrary to the endlessly repeated promise of the president and his political allies, millions and millions of Americans who do in fact like their current insurance policies are receiving notices that they will not be allowed to keep them. The White House and its media allies are working furiously to explain away this fact, but there is no explaining it away: The president lied about this. The word “lied” may be used too often in our political discourse, but the man lied, making willfully untrue statements with malice aforethought consistently and repeatedly. His aides and advisers had meetings and discussions about whether he should repeat this lie; campaign adviser Jim Margolis now allows, “Maybe this should have been parsed more carefully.” But parsing this more carefully would have precluded chanting the if-you-like-it-you-can-keep-it mantra, which is to say, it would have necessitated telling the truth that millions of Americans would lose policies they like.
In fact, the great majority of those in the individual-insurance market — about two-thirds of them — will lose their policies, according to estimates from the president’s own Department of Health and Human Services. They add up to some 15 million people. Of the much larger group of Americans who are insured through employer-based plans, between half and two-thirds will lose their coverage because of the new health-care law. In all, the number of Americans who will lose their plans is estimated to hit tens of millions. There simply is no way to square these facts with the promise of “If you like your insurance, you can keep it.” These estimates were listed on page 34,552 of the Federal Register; perhaps they were overlooked.
With the Affordable Care Act, the Democrats created a Frankenstein’s monster of stitched-together bits of managerial progressivism to be sorted out later through regulations issued by unaccountable bureaucrats, and now that the monster has turned on them, they are crying foul as the villagers consider their torches and pitchforks. At issue here is the question of “grandfathering,” or granting exemptions that allow people to keep the plans that they are happy with. The act itself establishes certain rules that ensure that millions of Americans will lose the policies that they are happy with, but it also invests regulators laboring under the management of President Obama and his secretaries with the power to issue and interpret regulations governing this grandfathering. President Obama’s regulators have chosen to interpret these regulations in the narrowest possible manner, interrupting the preferred arrangements of the greatest number of people. If the president does not approve of this, somebody should remind him that Kathleen Sebelius and her horde of regulatory busybodies work for him. The president likes to remind recalcitrant Republicans, “I won.” Perhaps the lifers at HHS did not get the memo.
It is worth noting that this regulatory discretion has been used prejudicially to disfavor those in the individual market and to favor those in employer-provided plans — which is to say, in a way that helps to ensure that no real robust market for individual insurance is allowed to emerge, sending millions into the morass of political mismanagement that are the Obamacare exchanges.
Nor can the Democrats say that they did not see this coming. After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) introduced a bill specifically intended to alleviate this problem and ensure that small businesses would have their health-insurance plans grandfathered in. Democrats voted unanimously against it.
There is no amount of clever spin or media denial that can make the president’s promises accord with the reality of what his administration is doing — or with the fact that he knew his claims were untrue at the time he was making them. He owes the nation an apology, and Congress owes it a better health-care bill.
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SPREAD THE WORD--cancelled irate policyholders see the O/Care debacle as the kissin' cousin of the 1992 House check-kiting scandal. Capitol Hill must be awash in flop sweat. Back In 1992, despite the cover-up, 11 of the 22 kiters---even in safe seats--were tossed out by angry constituents (cackle).
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Democrats Scramble to Distance Themselves from Obamacare (RATS want a refund)
Breitbart | 10/30/13 | Wynton Hall / FR Posted November 01 by Libloather
**SNIP** Other Democrats now say they agree with Republicans that a delay of the individual mandate may be the only way to salvage the disaster and save face. "I think the administration is going to have to look at it [delay of the individual mandate]. and I'd encourage them to do so," said Rep. Gene Green (D-TX).
Five Democrats have now asked for the Obama Administration to seek a refund from the contractors responsible for the Obamacare website fiasco.
GUILTY CONSCIENCES FROM VOTING FOR O/CARE? Reps. Ron Barber (D-AZ), William Enyart (D-IL), Pete Gallego (D-TX), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Filemon Vela (D-TX) wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging the reimbursement effort.
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ACTION NOW.....printout a summary of the pro-policyholder Republican amendment, with a list of EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT who voted against protecting policyholders, and use it in upcoming elections....in letters to the editor, ads, fliers, bumper stickers, lawn signs, etc..........
You can keep it....until you can’t.
Word games explained
If you like your healthcare you can keep it providing your insurance company is still offering it after we get through with them. Example: you can buy bread from the local bakery down the street that has been sold to a tool and die manufacturer overnight.
What was the statistic they kept repeating -- that we needed ObeyMeCare because 30 million were uninsured? And this is supposed to be the SOLUTION!?!?
These people are filth. Rancid stinking filth.
"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. PERIOD."
"If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. PERIOD."
Now the White House is lying about the lie:New Obama lie: What I said was, you can keep your plan if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.
Obama besides being a pathological, serial liar also is a mental lightweight, as he doesn't comprehend that a statement followed by a spoken "PERIOD" means the previous statement stands unqualified.
Nice to see the Lame Stream Media's Chris Cillizza getting up to speed here.
“I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn’t”. -— Barack Obama
“We need to insure the uninsured, and uninsure the insured”.-— Barack Obama
CASE IN POINT: Post-O/Care rollout, stupid Oahaha and dumb-head Biden actually set foot in Virginia---pimping for Dem McAwful.
Every voting Virginian---even dead voters---noticed Ohaha/Biden were too scared to even mention Obamacare....nor did the two lunkheads mention that McA supported it AND would expand it, as governor.
Today's the glorious day Va voters can express their righteous anger----at the polls----on that grinning Dem suckup--McAuliffe.
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FREEPER TXREFUGEE POSTED: MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, ran the clip of David "I'm Harmless" Axlerod saying that “only 5% will lose their insurance. ” As if 14 million, many suffering from chronic diseases, were expendable. Axelrod sounded very much like a Nazi, defending Hitler, b/c he had “only killed 6 million Jews,” a very small percentage.
This Chicago criminal Axelrod is now a CBS advisor and runs his own political science school at the U of Chicago---the Chicago jerkman fixed US elections to get Obama into the WH--and now he's considered a political expert. (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
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YOO HOO NANCY--The dirty secrets that Obama and the Democrats have tried to keep from Americans since they first introduced the Obamacare legislation are now out in the open. It’s why they didn’t want anyone to read it. It’s why they didn’t want anyone to debate it. It’s why they shouted down Republicans.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting cancellation letters b/c their h/care policies do not live up to sap-happy Obama's utopian Marxist dream. Yet, they heard Obama’s endlessly repeated assurances: “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan”...at least 24 times....
Americans now realize they've been screwed-over by (1) Obamacare, (2) Democrats, AND, (3) Obama himself.
How many UNinsured has this program created while claiming to be a fix for the 30 million uninsured?
Let me guess, 139 million cancelled insurance policies?
Typical libtard program, try to “fix” something and make it four times worse.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3087629/posts
you might not be eligible if you have preexisting conditions to 0 care!
Another broken promise.
I’m waiting for him to order ret. Military and seniors to mail order all their meds from Express Scripts, and I don’t trust them worth a hoot. Had to many run in’s with them ‘flagging’ drugs, even a $23 dollar name brand, which is the only one I can take. The generic is just 5-6$ difference in actual price. ES has a beef with the makers of Synthroid, and takes it out on patients like me, who have to have the name brand. I take most generics, as long as you don’t go changing the manufacture, cause not all generics are EQUAL in how they work. Synthroid is one of those name brands that work better than the generic per the pharmacist!
I for one don’t like the idea of my meds sitting on the porch or in the mail box to be stolen by the local druggies. I need what few meds I do take.
Actually, that's probably one of the primary driving motivations for BO. Especially punishing those that "have it too good".
We may expect an amendment to ObamaCare, that we will be required to purchase art and music.
The limousine liberal lawyers who have been hovering around and over “Intellectual Property,” all of Hollywoode, the Palace Media (formerly “liberal media”), and millions of people with *I wanna be a Star!* in their eyes ... will leap for it.
Though John Roberts will find it to be another tax -— the people subsidizing literally millions of starving artists.
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