That's the same list I've seen elsewhere. I thought it was a great list, just what I was looking for and it would be even better to show up next Saturday with a printout of the 1018-page bill at my Congressman's THM and recite from the bill itself.
Therefore, I took the list and started looking for those things in the bill. After I looked up two or three of the worst-sounding items and finding the claims were apparently false, I gave up.
Here's one example:
Is that rationing? A sloppy reading might give someone that impression but, clearly, those $5K and $10K limits on cost-sharing (defined on page 8) refer to the maximum out-of-pocket costs that the insured will pay; they are not limits on what the plan will pay. Thus, I am left to conclude nothing on page 29 suggests health care will be rationed.
Make no mistake, I absolutely despise everything about this bill, from its premise to those who support it. I hope I'm wrong about the above example and the rest of that list. But, at this point, it seems to me if Obama wants to discredit us liberty-loving Americans, all he needs to do is sit down in front of a TV camera and go through this list that so many of us seem to be depending on and show where each one of its claims is false.
It's enough to make me wonder where that list originated. If I wanted to make conservatives look silly and ruin their credibility, I'd pose as one of them and circulate something like that.
Do you have a link for downloading the bill?
It looks like limits on the package of essential benefits.
I’m rather shocked that El Rushbo would be quoting this if it doesn’t say what he says it says.