Posted on 06/18/2010 9:45:33 AM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administration issued strict rules Monday under which even some small changes to existing health care plans will make them subject to the requirements of the new health care reform law.
The president promised repeatedly during the health care debate that individuals who like their current plans would be able to keep them. To meet that goal, the health care law envisioned that some plans would be “grandfathered in” under the old law — and therefore would not be required to meet some of the mandates of the new law, such as no-charge preventive care screenings.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The list, ping
Bend over and grab your ankles, America!
“. . . increase deductibles or co-payments by a significant amount or significantly decrease employer contributions to a plan, among other restrictions.”
I wonder how they measure “significant amount”. If an insurance policy had a co-pay of $5 per visit and increased it to $10, that is insignificant in terms of actual dollars but a 100% increase in co-pay. Of course, we all knew once the government, a player itself, established itself as the rulemaker for the game, the rules would always favor the government.
I gonna call BS on this. No such thing was "envisioned" by anyone. Politio is the WND of the left.
Has the United States ever lived under such a nightmare? Sure we have had crooks and both conservative and liberal “progressives”, but never anything like this.
And we have three more years of this. The Newt was telling Hannity that the President doesn’t have a hidden agenda that he is just incompetent. Yeah right.
Why is Obama giving Brazil 2 billion to do even deeper ocean drilling and moving rigs and equipment from the Gulf to Brazil along with the most experienced workers? While pushing his Cap and Trade agenda here?
Looks like a “grandfather clause” is just another form of “earmark”. Each is a special favor, generally of a political nature even when justified on economic grounds.
LIAR, LIAR pants on fire...we won’t be keeping our health plans.
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