Posted on 10/26/2013 8:52:58 AM PDT by John Semmens
Senator Ron Johnson’s (R-Wisc) proposed legislation, the “If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act,” was immediately denounced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) as “out of line.”
“This bill would completely undermine the Affordable Care Act,” Reid charged. “It trades on the simplistic notion that individuals should be permitted to decide what kind of health insurance they need. This is flawed logic. First of all, individuals aren’t qualified to assess the complex issues of health care coverage. Second, allowing people to keep plans they like would cater to the kind of selfishness that is wrecking this country.”
In defense of his bill, Senator Johnson argued that “it merely implements President Obama’s promise that those who like their existing insurance would be allowed to keep it. As we’re seeing millions of customers are being notified by their insurers that the Affordable Care Act requires the cancellation of ‘non-conforming plans.’”
“The President’s promise was never intended as a ‘blank check’ on behalf of personal greed,” Reid countered. “Those who like their existing insurance because it gives them coverage they want at a price they can afford are overlooking the broader social obligations they must bear as a member of society. All the President is asking is that we all share the burden of subsidizing the coverage of those worse off than themselves.”
The contingent of “worse off” includes those with pre-existing conditions, those with chronic health problems brought on by obesity, substance abuse, and serving in government. As Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) explains, “the stress we face in our jobs is severe. On the one hand, lobbyists continually pressure us with temptations—free meals, free trips, campaign donations—that take a toll on our health. On the other hand, there is the constant fear that someone will perceive that we have done something wrong—taken a payoff to push legislation, cheated on our taxes—that disturbs our repose. We need and deserve a subsidy.”
While members of Congress’ salary of $174,000 per year plus assorted perks puts them well above the income level below which people must fall to qualify for Obamacare subsidies, Rangel and his colleagues, by Executive Order, will receive annual subsidies of nearly $11,000 to help fund their health insurance.
In related news, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius confirmed that she would not be signing up for Obamacare, saying that “I have a better plan that I’m satisfied with and I’m going to keep it.”
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Mercy sakes John, almost got me!
The left wing is completely evil and must be separated from the right wing Constitutional patriots. The states need to secede from the evil federal regime of liars, thieves and killers.
Sad we live in a world where satire has become truer than truth.
If the bill were really conservative he would have been assaulted by his fellow Republican RINOs
:p
By Jove, I think you’ve got it! ;’)
So”Dingy Harry”FINALLY Tells The TRUTH About LIBERALISM!Individuals Cannot Be Trusted To Make Their OWN CHOICES????
:’D
Obama’s promise that “If you like your current insurance policy, you can keep it” was a blatant lie.
The ACA bill explicitly said that the HHS Secretary would set minimum standards for all insurance policies. That meant that adding ANY feature to this list of minimum standards would invalidate some insurance policy.
But when the “Secretary” added a laundry list (e.g., no caps, no pre-existing conditions [i.e., AIDS], no cost checkups, no cost birth control and abortions, alcohol and drug rehab, pregnancy, men and women pay the same amount, seniors pay no more than 3 times the premiums for the young,...), there was no possible way that the promise could be kept.
Hannity pounded on some liberals about this, and their responding talking point was, “But the policies being replaced cost more because they have more features.”
Hannity reponsed that that was not the promise -— the promise was to keep what you got, not to pay more to get more. That is called “bait and switch”, and in the real world people go to jail for that.
This is pretty good satire, it would be GOLD if Reid actually said this, in fact some Dems are on TV actually saying very similar. Like on the Kelly File.
This is the real issue. Outlawing all policies except ones that make you buy a bunch of expensive crap of no use to you. GOP needs to make this their issue.
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