The Untold Story Of Obamacare In Tennessee

Daily Caller ^ | June 30, 2015 | By Rep. Diane Black

[Brad from Tennessee]

Tomorrow President Obama will travel to my home state of Tennessee to tout the supposed successes of his signature healthcare law. The trip marks the president’s third visit to the Volunteer State in less than a year so it seems that we can agree on at least one thing: Tennessee is a great place to visit, and an even better place to call home. The president and I have profound disagreements, however, on the subject of his visit.

I’ve been a nurse for more than 40 years, but you don’t need a background in healthcare to understand that if Obamacare was the success story the president claimed it is, then it would not have landed at the Supreme Court on three separate occasions to begin with. Nor would the president still be traveling across the country to put a positive spin on the law five years after it was first enacted.

Throughout my state, Tennesseans are feeling the squeeze of Obamacare in very real ways. The largest insurer in our region has requested a whopping 36 percent rate hike for next year, despite the president’s repeated promise that his law would save Americans an average of $2,500 per family, per year.

What’s more, some 28,000 Tennesseans lost their health coverage in a single day through the Obamacare-mandated closure of a state health insurance initiative known as “CoverTN” and its affiliate programs – a grim reality that flies in the face of the president’s infamous promise “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”

[TNMOUTH]

Rep. Black voted John Boehner for Speaker. She won’t answer WHAT they are going to do in Congress about O-care. I guess we will see.

[Baynative]

If Obama/SCOTUS care was a success there would be far more than 11 million people enrolled after 5 years of it being THE LAW OF THE LAND!