Obamacare Insurance is 'Unaffordable' for 105 Million Americans (Against the law?)

Weekly Standard ^ | 2/10/15 | MARK HEMINGWAY

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

Given that the authors of Obamacare had a very specific idea in mind for what constitutes affordable insurance, the American Health Policy Institute is out with a new study that asks a very interesting question: Does Obamacare meet its own standards for affordability? The answer is no. Here are a couple of the key findings from AHPI's study:

Even now, under the Affordable Care Act’s own definition, over 105 million Americans will find plans in the ACA’s [Affordable Care Act's] public exchanges to be “unaffordable” when both premiums and deductibles are taken into account.

Over 13 million employees with employer based coverage – 3.0 million with individual coverage, and 10.4 million with family plans – are now facing the prospect of “unaffordable” health care.

[Libloather]

Pelosi knew.

[nascarnation]

Both my wife and I have noted in the last year or so that the doctors we go to seem to have far less business. Easy to get appointments and uncrowded waiting rooms. I believe the mega deductibles on these new policies are the reason.

[Diogenesis]

At least the EXEMPT Congress was smart enough,
not only to INVEST in ObamaCARE companies,
but also to make themselves, their families,
their staff and their families, EXEMPT.

Isn’t that just SPECIAL?

[Proud2BeRight]

You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.

[Kackikat]

Most Democrat leaders knew.

[BCW]

so proud...baby girl!

so...when do we impeach this administration and then imprison them?

[Kackikat]

The ultimate dream!

[alloysteel]

And now that we HAVE found out what is in the bill, can we rescind it and go back to 2008, when some coverage WAS affordable for the great majority of US citizens?

Certainly, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” was probably one of the more deceptively titled bills that ever made it out of Congress and signed into law.

The only part that REALLY applies is reference to “2010”.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Pelosi knew.

To be fair, she told us that Obamacare would be affordable, so we knew that it wouldn't be.

[LegendHasIt]

"..Does Obamacare meet its own standards for affordability?.."

It was never even intended by its architects to be affordable. It was designed to fail, so that only the super rich could afford decent medical care, and anyone else would have to go begging to the government for if they get ill or injured.

[Yosemitest]

The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants ~ and is DIRECTING the policies that regulate ALL health care plans
in the United States ~ TO FAIL !
NEVER FORGET THAT !

Many of us have said for many years that Obama is doing this INTENTIONALLY.
He using the old Soviet Plan from 1934 or earlier.




Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
AND NOW, WE CAN ADD "Establishment Republicans" TO THAT LIST, ALSO!
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are "Collapsing the System".
And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE "SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".

Flashback: Obama's Campaign to Transition to Single Payer Health Care (VIDEO)


obama master plan on health careover the years in his own words--SINGLE PAYER!!! ( 3:38 )

They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!

Lets review:

Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?

...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...

Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim
that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.

Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s?
"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "

Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

The History of Medicare

In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.

Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."

Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.

The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.

...(continued at link)

So Democrats,

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR INSURING THE FAILURE
OF THE MEDICARE/MEDICAID PROGRAM,
and now YOU DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A. ECONOMY!!!

So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!!

You have no integrity!!!

Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...

"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday;
instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "

It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...

Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.

It's the Democrats Communists.

Let's take a deeper look.

Obama: "I Don't Want the Folks who Created the Mess to do a lot of Talking" "

Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!

[Proud2BeRight]

The best “GOP alternative” right now would be a return to where we were we in 2008.

[Jim Noble]

Of course, the three step plan was:

1) Take away your insurance

2) Make it impossible to buy new insurance

3) Raise the demand for nationalization.

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it.

[MHGinTN]

The globalist oligarchy wants the Republic to have a single payer (read government funded and thus completely controlled) healthcare system. It is part of the final solution to ending the Republic. I figure this portends we have at most eight to ten years until final collapse. Since the oligarchs own both parties, this ‘heathcare’ scam will not be repealed or repaired. It will be allowed to do what it was designed to do, create so much chaos and nager that the sheeple will beg for a single payer system.

[Organic Panic]

If a person still has a blanket after Obamacare requirements they can still afford Obamacare.

[US_MilitaryRules]

She is taking an 0b0la! yuck!

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[Kackikat]

That was Harry Reid said, ‘it was a step to the single payer’. I think your explanation is as close as it gets.

[TYVets]

Pelosi knew it will be single payer within 10 years