Posted on 10/25/2013 9:45:13 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin will propose a new law next week called: "If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act."
“One of the most important promises made by President Obama and Democrat congressional leadership to promote the Affordable Care Act was that Americans who were satisfied with their health plans could keep them. That promise has been broken. More than a million Americans have been notified that the plans they like with the coverage they have chosen have been canceled. Millions more Americans will have the plans of their choice canceled in months to come,” says Senator Johnson in a statement.
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LOL!
Beautiful - let the Democrats explain why it is a bad idea.
He’s trying to rehabilitate himself after what he did to Cruz. That’s all this is. He’s making the talk show rounds this morning making a fool out of himself IMO. But the true believers will lap it up, accuse people of joining a “circular firing squad”, and assert that Ron is on our side but he just has different tactics. This must be one of them. Call me unimpressed.
Not in total. Some of the plan cost increases are because the plans are mandated to cover a lot of specific services, like pregnancy care...even if you’re 60 years old...and a man. So if this law says the insurance companies can keep offering plans without that mandated stuff, it’s a good thing.
I do like this proposal. But obviously it doesn’t eliminate the fact that new sign-ups will still be under the new plans with the stupid mandates, so it’s not a cure-all for even one part of Barrycare.
Sure does. The thing is, that's the way to put the pols on the hook. "You want Obamacare? You can have Obamacare. But it won't be a mandate." Remind them that when Obama was campaigning against hillary, he promised his health program would be voluntary. How could anyone vote against that and be re-elected?
I'd particularly enjoy watching the RINOs squirm. Methinks a real lot of them actually want Obamacare since their corporate paymasters in insurance and other industries have found a way to profit from it.
That's the point of the law -- allow people to go back to whatever plan they had before the mandate, and essentially be waivered from the new requirements (both purchaser and seller).
It's brilliant, politically, because it takes Obama's promise and shoves it right back down his throat. It also will resonate with anyone who lost their plan.
Which would be a good thing! If only a small percentage of plans have to cover all that mandated crap, even if the costs were evened out aross all plans, we'd all be paying less.
But you can't underestimate the PR benefit of having Obama veto a law like this either, or the Dems voting against it. This is the kind of tactic we need to take advantage of the Dems disastrous coup attempt on the health care industry. This is an ad you can run in the next campaign.
If they had the option, I'm sure some would if they thought it enticed their customers to stay. That's how the free market works.
I especially like it that it is entitled such that it points out that Obama was lying.
No one's yet invented the magic wand that you can wave to repeal Obamacare. Therefore we need to win elections to repeal it. To do that, you get Dems on record voting against something as voter-friendly as this legislation and then run ads telling how they voted a year from now. If it passes, then we take credit for introducing it.
You can’t keep your insurance if the insurance company cancels your ass. There then ain’t nothing to keep.
When your opponent is destroying themselves, don’t get involved.
It wasn't an issue with the public then because relatively few had gotten their cancellation notices at that time.
Does Senator Johnson not grasp the fact that the plans he wants to allow people to keep no longer exist?
I said, in March 2010, that the PPACA was a work of pure Leninist destruction, which is exactly what is unfolding. If Johnson is an example of how we respond, we are screwed.
Mit der Dummheit, kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
Do you not grasp the fact that they don't exist because Obamacare said they had to be cancelled for non-compliance with the law? Johnson would allow those plans to stay grandfathered in. Now I would agree the cost of the plan might not be able to be the same because of the rule that people with pre-existing conditions can't be charged more now, but at least the coverage in the plan could be the same. Costs on plans already go up every year, so Obama's promise was never about the cost of the plan. The companies would simply be able to say if you had a plan that they cancelled, you can request to get it back, if Johnson's law passed.
The opponent already has the knife in him but this let's us twist it. It can turn an injury into a death blow.
"Get it back"?
What does that mean? Does it mean that companies would be required to reassemble plans they have eliminated, and do a 2014 rollout?
Or does it just mean that, IF the companies desire to resurrect the now eliminated plans and IF those plans are priced correctly that they can CHOOSE to offer them?
F-fa-fa-free market?!?!?? Arrest that man!
So by your logic we can't repeal Obamacare in full either, since the "shifting" back and forth is too damaging.
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