Posted on 10/11/2010 3:40:58 PM PDT by bronkburnett
Well, it has been more than a half year since ObamaCare was signed into law. Insurance premiums are increasing. And benefits are decreasing.
Yes, insurance companies cannot refuse insurance to anyone for preconditions, but now we find that the rates they charge are not capped so those who have preconditions will pay exceedingly high rates for insurance. Yes, children must be covered until they are 26, but the insurance companies charge for it. The OMB revised its estimates so now ObamaCare will increase the deficit instead of decreasing it as advertised last winter. It is estimated that millions of people will now lose their company provided insurance as those companies drop their insurance benefits because it will be provided through government sources. Medicare scaled back its benefits to elderly people. And only 12 million of those 36 million people who could not get insurance will now have it because of ObamaCare.
So was ObamaCare worth it?
Yes, if you are an insurance company. No, if you are just an American citizen.
The October 1, 2010 Kiplinger Letter states that Republicans will not be able to reduce the impact of the healthcare law because “The GOP cannot repeal the law as long as Obama is president.” And “The health industry backs several big parts of the law… “
And why does the healthcare industry back this law? Do insurance companies and hospitals have that much impact on Washington that they can stop the will of the people?
... Insurance companies wanted this law and Obama delivered it for them.
In the end, we the people got taken!
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Duh.
What is it that the government has touched which has gotten MORE efficient?
And 0 has the b@ll$ to come back and say, "Well, we KNEW it was going to cost more."
HOW STUPID CAN PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT(ED) THIS L0SER BE?!
First you gut Obamacare (defund major parts of it). Then when Obama gets tossed out of the White House in 2012 you drive a steak through it's heart and end this socialist medical experiment once and for all.
Thanks DIMocRATS! I definitely will vote for you in November. You are so intelligent and I am a hopeless, helpless fool. All praise DIMocRATS and nobama!!!!!!
My insurance agent told me that she can no longer give new clients a price for their policies. That’s determined by underwriting, and it could end up being 50% or more beyond her estimate. She said the obly people being helped by all this are poor people — which was the intent, right?
I disagree that insurance companies benefitted. Because they will have to raise their premiums to cover preexisting conditions they will have fewer customers, if any, and will likely go out of business, at least out of the health care business, forcing everyone onto government health care. That is exactly what the Democrats intended.
Does anyone else remember in 1994-95 when Newt Gingrich came up with a plan for private insurance to care for the elderly and said that as a result of the elderly choosing the private plan Medicare would wither on the vine. The media and the Democrats jumped on that and turned Newt into Satan incarnate for such audacity.
Now the hypocrites are doing the same, but in reverse, to force people onto the government plan.
A bill was passed with no thought to unintended consequences.
The fact is we don’t know how this will end.
It was and is a stab in the dark.
Thank You Democrats You got us again, Now we hope to get you on Nov. 2nd.
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