Posted on 09/02/2024 11:30:09 AM PDT by grundle
Obamacare is one of the biggest examples of false advertising in history.
According to this article from wikipedia, the original, official name of Obamacare was “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” and it was later changed to “Affordable Care Act.”
Please note the use of the word “affordable” in both versions of the official name.
That was how Democrats advertised Obamacare to the voters: “affordable” health care.
However, on July 17, 2024, CBS News published this article, which revealed the actual truth about Obamacare. The article is called, “Americans spend more on health care than any other nation. Yet almost half can’t afford care.”
This proves that Democrats are guilty of false advertising.
They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Democrats had originally promised to air Obamacare negotiations on C-SPAN, but Democrats broke their promise.
The secrecy of these negotiations was so strong that Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Here’s video of Pelosi saying those words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU
Obamacare is so horrible that I was able to write this blog post, which I titled, “Here are 341 reasons why Democrats and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves.”
Here are the first five examples that I cited in that blog post. You can click on this link to read the entire list:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/obamacare-59/
1) After Obamcare was passed, unions that supported its passage requested and received special exemptions
Within months after Obamacare was passed, Obama gave some organizations an exemption from some of the requirements of Obamacare. As time went on, more than 1,300 organizations received these exemptions.
More than half of the people who are covered by insurance plans that received these exemptions are in union insurance plans. These unions supported the passage of Obamacare. But immediately after Obamacare was passed, these unions wanted exemptions from the very same law that they wanted to force everyone else to obey. This reveals an extreme level of hypocrisy among many of the supporters of Obamacare.
In addition, these exemptions are illegal for two reasons – because Obama granted the exemptions without approval from Congress, and because the Constitution requires the law to treat everyone the same.
The Washington Times wrote of this:
“Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is tyranny.”
“The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new waivers is, at best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So far, seven entire states and 1,372 businesses, unions and other institutions have received waivers from the law. The list includes the administration’s friends and allies and, of course, those who have the best lobbyists.”
“More than 50 percent of the Obamacare waiver beneficiaries are union members, which is striking because union members account for less than 12 percent of the American work force. The same unions that provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the last two elections and, in many cases, openly campaigned in favor of the government takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare is not their problem.”
2) After Obamacare was passed, politicians who voted for it asked for a special exemption for their own districts
Even the politicians who voted for Obamacare want exemptions for their own districts.
In response to the medical device tax that is part of Obamacare, some medical device manufacturers have announced plans to layoff employees, including Welch Allyn (275 planned layoffs), Stryker (1,170 planned layoffs), and Medtronic (1,000 planned layoffs).
In December 2012, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry, and 15 other Democrats who supported the passage of Obamacare wrote a letter to Harry Reid, asking him to delay the tax on medical devices, claiming that the tax would hurt job creation in their districts.
3 ) Politicians who voted for Obamacare wanted an additional exemption for themselves and their staff after it was passed
This is another example of how the politicians who voted for Obamacare want exemptions for themselves.
In 2010, Obamacare was passed by the House and Senate, and signed by President Obama.
Three years later, members of Congress and their staff complained that Obamacare was going to cost them a lot of money, and said that this would likely cause a brain drain among their staff. In response to this, Obama made changes to Obamacare so that these things would not happen. However, Obama’s actions were illegal, because he made these changes without Congress voting on them first.
The New York Times wrote of this:
… the language of the health care law requires Congressional employees to obtain health insurance through an exchange created by the law, but other parts of the federal legal code restrict the ability of the federal government to pay the usual employer share for group insurance programs approved by the Office of Personnel Management.
A straightforward reading of the law thus means that Congressional staff members, starting in January 2014, will have to obtain insurance through the Affordable Care Act but pay for it on their own without the normal contribution from their employer — Congress. This would be a multi-thousand-dollar income hit for those affected… many… would potentially feel the pain, giving rise to concerns over a potential brain drain of Congressional staff members finding other employment.
… the federal personnel office initially ruled that Congressional staff members would not be eligible for the subsidies, and then changed this decision under pressure from the White House…
4) An entire state that supported Obamacare asked for an exemption
The people of Massachusetts were huge supporters of Obamacare when it was passed, and they voted for Obama in both elections. But even they eventually ended up asking for their own special exemption from Obamacare.
In August 2013, Obama gave an Obamacare waiver to Massachusetts.
This waiver was illegal for two reasons. First, the waiver was not approved by the U.S. Congress. Second, the U.S. Constitution requires that the federal government treat all states the same.
5) Obamacare supporters at Democratic Underground later complained about it
For some really hilarious displays of shock and outrage by supporters of Obamacare at how it’s harming people, check out these threads at Democratic Underground: one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven.
Mine is $500 a month w/ $12K deductible (catastrophic care policy), and I have zero medical issues and never have. I don’t know what to do. I can’t afford this.
Kind of explains how Osama and all his cronies can afford to buy and build all those mansions.
There should be NO Exemptions of any kind for anyone and every Public Employee in America should be enrolled in Obamacare, then it will work.
-PJ
Well we had to pass it to see what’s in it.
bttt
AHort and simple way to show people that the gov is completely and utterly incapable of being successful at doing anything other than stealing your money or bombing countries we shouldn’t be getting involved in is to simply try and use their new, improved and approved gas cans.
Sorry, you can’t make a better gas can you are incapable of doing anything more complicated PERIOD!
Where is my $2,500.00 that Obama said I get back??? I spend that much per month on premiums. Words can not express what I think of that man.
Medical insurance is so high that it is causing people to live less healthy lives (poorer quality food, using less AC/Heating during temperature extremes, spending more time depressed and/or anxious) that even if the care were better, there are more symptoms and ailments to treat.
I think PP stands for Pfizer Protection.
Mine is $800 a month and $15,000 deductible. Granted, that was a Cobra quote. I figured I’d do just as well putting that money in a savings account just for medical costs.
Don’t forget, traitor McCain cast the deciding vote in the Senate against legislation that would have killed 0bama Care.
Political Lies are now just "false advertising"?
No, we shouldn’t need to pass it to see what was in it. Something stated that way is nothing but fake insurance; a sucker policy. That’s like paying $40000 for a brand new used car that is a wreck. There is a saying for those schemes...”Buyer Beware”. It’s hard to believe anyone fell for Obamacare, but I guess under certain circumstances it sounded attractive.
ACA also allowed competition to die by giving insurance companies the opportunity to buy hospital networks, which bought up other networks (our local hospital has been bought three times since 2012), which bought up doctors’ practices. The newly-formed networks owned by insurance companies are forced to accept only certain insurance plans and not others, to further eliminate competition not only among hospitals, but insurance companies as well.
It’s the biggest reason why it’s so messed up; competition is gone.
I cannot afford health insurance and have gone without for FIVE years now.
I remember Obama in his usual mocking tone right after he signed the legislation saying something to the effect of, “see, the world didn’t end!”
Well, no $#1t, Sherlock. The legislation didn’t instantly eff things up. Just give it time. And here we are.
Thanks for posting -— good article and links.
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