Posted on 12/11/2013 6:55:22 AM PST by Whenifhow
Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testifies on the implementation of the Healthcare.gov before the House Energy & Commerce Committee. Share your comments on Facebook and Twitter using #cspanchat. Witnesses:
The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Witness Testimony (Truth in Testimony)
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So why are policies so different in price among the states - isn’t Obamacare supposed to be “nationalizing” centralizing health care?
That is why are the states different in terms of cost? as Sebelius mentioned
So why are policies so different in price among the states - isn’t Obamacare supposed to be “nationalizing” centralizing health care?
That is why are the states different in terms of cost? as Sebelius mentioned
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Curious reporters are still exposing all of the Obamacare lies,
Your question has yet to be answered, and I have been looking.
Yep, Wax Man nose what he’s talking about.
Rep (Dr) Ed Whitfield, R-KY -—
“Many healthcare experts today say we are going quickly to a two-healthcare system-—one healthcare system for wealthy Americans and everyone else will be under Obamacare. That is exactly what has happened in every other country that has gone down this path.”
Sebelius said, “It is illegal for a company to sell me a policy in the private market because I am over 65.”
I didn’t know that.
Now she says that Medicaid enrollees are now re-enrolling.
Wouldn’t the same be true of medicare?
And if she is on medicare ? that’s not what she said in the last hearing - she said she was on the federal benefits plan.
Now she says that Medicaid enrollees are now re-enrolling.
Wouldn’t the same be true of medicare?
And if she is on medicare ? that’s not what she said in the last hearing - she said she was on the federal benefits plan.
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“Medicaid enrollees are now re-enrolling.”
??? Why, I wonder? There was no announcement about that. Are they re-entolling because they think they must?
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“And if she is on medicare ?”
Rep Green, D-TX said he and his wife are over 65 and enrolling on the website for Congress. Is it that members of Congress and Fed officials are excluded from Medicare if they are on the Fed plan? Sebelius did say that it was illegal for any “private” insurer to insure her.
Now I am curious about this topic.
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It is not true! I am on my wife’s employer’s police and it pays first then Medicare would pick up the rest and in my case the VA is supposed to pay anything left over after both of these pay first.
Sebelius can go out buy any damn plan she wants!
Now they a imposing a 2 min. limit on the last seven questioners! Not fare!
hmmm...Thanks for info.
Would it be the same if your wife (as primary policy holder) was over 65? You BOTH would be on your wife’s employer policy? IOW, Employees over 65 can be on employer policies.
That raises 2 other questions. When you turned 65, did you have to sign up for medicare or was that automatic through the employer policy?
Second question: I wonder if private insurers cannot sell an INDIVIDUAL policy to anyone over 65?
In VA medicaid people have to decide if they want their asset (home) or medicaid?
I just recently saw some threads about that. How disgusting! Learning more than I ever wanted to, but we all must. The future of our country depends on abolishing Obamacare.
sorry...meant to include one link:
Medicaid Estate Recovery (Free Obamacare ain’t free!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3083975/posts
Thanks for the link.
Here are two “field hearings” which are very interesting. In one of them a doctor does mention how certain people were helped by the ACA, but most of the testimony is about negative impact of the ACA.
Field Hearing in North Carolina on ObamaCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzR1i-5VNI
Field Hearing in Georgia on ObamaCare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsV3miWzK_w
Sebelius just answered a question from Griffith: You don’t think the plan you have is skimpy, do you?
“But as you know the new Marketplace plan has some age-rating that the Fed Employee Health Benefit program did not.”
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I am watching delayed. Now I see it was Griffith who discussed the medicaid rule that you mentioned. Once again, Sebelius was non-responsive.
You do not have to sign up for Medicare when you turn 65 but there is a $ cost if you sign up later. Sign up is not automatic you must make that decision. If you have the money you can buy any individual policy you want. And last - Employees over 65 can be on their employer’s policy.
My wife works for Wal-Mart and she called their corporate insurance office and this is (above) the info they gave her. If she loses her insurance and I had not signed up for Medicare at 65, then I decided to sign up when we lost the insurance we have, then I have a time period(?) in which to sign up for Medicare without a $ increase in cost.
RD: I appreciate the info, Thank you so very much.
Hearing over and Sebelius was as slippery and evasive and non-responsive as she always is. She is trained well.
Congressmen need to be better prepared, ask better questions, and pin her down with followups until she is responsive to the question.
But that would be rude, wouldn’t it.
Yes, they think it would be so ungentlemanly or unladylike to actually ask a demanding question and badger her to answer. Oh and the Rino Republican in charge would have pounded his gavel until the questioner stopped demanding an answer.
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Fox news (Happening Now): Arul Grover (physician) talked about Obamacare and doctor shortages. Affects rural and inner-cities now, and everyone later.
Said 10,000 people per day will reach 65-—for the next 20 years. US is experiencing record number of applications to medical schools. Problem is that “we may not have enough residency training programs.”
Reason for that:
“Since the Balanced Budget ACT of 1997, Congress limited Medicare’s ability to support its share of the cost of training at teaching hospitals....We are at financial constraint capacity, not from a technical standpoint...but because it is a financially costly proposition to train all of those physicians.”
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