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Feinstein: Loophole in Health Care Reform Leads to Double-Digit Premium Increases
Human Events ^ | 4/13/2010 | Connie Hair

Posted on 04/13/2010 12:25:33 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

Less than one month after passage of the nearly 3,000-page Obamacare bill the President then signed into law, dire consequences -- intended or otherwise -- continue to surface. Imagine if Democrat legislators actually understood the impact of their massive legislation before the voted for it. Perhaps that’s too much to ask from a group that doesn’t even read the bill before they shove it down America’s collective throats.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that the double-digit premium hikes Democrats vowed Obamacare would stop, well, it doesn’t actually stop them.

Like when the President said his bill would immediately require coverage of children with pre-existing conditions. It doesn’t do that either.

“It is a very big loophole in health reform,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told the Times. Feinstein and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) are pushing legislation to expand federal and state authority to prevent insurance companies from boosting rates excessively, the Times reports.

First Democrats create a massive new entitlement program that doesn’t do the things they say it will do -- like control health care costs or decrease deficit spending. Then, as part of the design, Democrats want to pass even more regulatory legislation that will further expedite the collapse of the private insurance industry thus leading to single payer government health care and all of its rationing, waiting lines and skyrocketing costs.

That's because this was never about cost or health care. It's about big government control over people's wallets and their lives.

During the 2008 Presidential election cycle, then-Senator Barack Obama laid out during his campaign his health care plan that included a clear benchmark on lower health care costs.

“Today I want to lay out the details of that plan -- a plan that not only guarantees coverage for every American, but also reduces every family’s premiums by as much as $2,500,” candidate Obama said on May 27, 2007.

Obamacare fails to deliver on that promise.

The Democrat plan is to blame the mean old insurance companies for the innumerable health care crises caused by Obamacare, then insist only big government solutions can fix these government-created problems.

The problem for Democrats is that America’s not falling for it.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feinstein; obamacare
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1 posted on 04/13/2010 12:25:33 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman

Abort the bill ...

Loophole, yeah sure ...


2 posted on 04/13/2010 12:27:53 PM PDT by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: bruinbirdman

it is also leading to sick seniors being dumped from home health and hospice. this entire system is crashing and helpless people are going to suffer....my mom is like a helpless child. cant talk or walk but is being dumped.


3 posted on 04/13/2010 12:28:09 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: bruinbirdman
3,000-page Obamacare bill the President

Or did they mean the 3000% savings the bill would create?
4 posted on 04/13/2010 12:30:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: bruinbirdman

I heard that there is a provision in the bill that now forces the congress critters to buy into Obama Kare. Anyone know? That would be a real deal breaker! /snicker


5 posted on 04/13/2010 12:31:41 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Tarpon
Abort the bill ...

I like that----Abort the bill, not the babies!

6 posted on 04/13/2010 12:33:43 PM PDT by Faith
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To: Don Corleone

I heard about that provision on Rush today. If true, it is the ultimate irony and payback for not reading the bill in the first place.


7 posted on 04/13/2010 12:35:18 PM PDT by Faith
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To: bruinbirdman

REPEAL IT!!!


8 posted on 04/13/2010 12:36:32 PM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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To: bruinbirdman

Loophole my a$$...they built it in there


9 posted on 04/13/2010 12:38:02 PM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: Don Corleone
Did you note the author of this article?

yitbos

10 posted on 04/13/2010 12:39:25 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: bruinbirdman

How about closing the Commerce Clause loophole. .gov has made it a mile wide.


11 posted on 04/13/2010 12:42:05 PM PDT by mikeandike
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A double win for Obambi. He’ll blame the increases on the evilll insurance companies rather than his bill.


12 posted on 04/13/2010 12:43:15 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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My small, 60 employee engineering services company was notified today that our health care insurance bill would rise between 20 and 25% next year. Some of our competitors will drop health care, or scale back their coverages with higher deductability, etc. in order to keep their fringe costs low. Others, like us, who don’t do that will face a competitive disadvantage when bidding work.


13 posted on 04/13/2010 12:43:49 PM PDT by centurion316
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The Democrats want price controls now to prevent premium increases as an issue on the fall ballot. Democrats denied that the health care bill provided the authority for price controls. Democrats know that in the short run, price controls will reduce premiums and not affect supply too much. Over the long run, price controls will have devasting impacts on the supply of medical care.

Price controls on insurers also forces insurers to perform the dirty work for the rats. Insurers will be forced to place price controls on medical providers. These providers will blame insurers not the rats.


14 posted on 04/13/2010 12:45:45 PM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: centurion316

Our non-profit health center faces a similar situation. We are going to look into adopting a HSA plan, and have the center deposit the money saved into the HSA for the employee. We would like to wind up neutral or better for the employees as well as the center.


15 posted on 04/13/2010 12:51:56 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: bruinbirdman

In my opinion, Feinstein is the perfect example of a Kapo!


16 posted on 04/13/2010 12:52:16 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: bruinbirdman
Everyone was screaming that the bill would increase insurance premiums but the Dems pushed it thru anyway. Now they blame the insurance companies.

What shysters they are.

17 posted on 04/13/2010 12:54:12 PM PDT by what's up
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To: centurion316
Unfortunately, I don't think your company is legally able to drop coverage.

It will have to drop 11 employees first to get to the magic number of 49 in order to escape the new law.

18 posted on 04/13/2010 12:55:45 PM PDT by what's up
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To: centurion316

“Some of our competitors will drop health care, or scale back their coverages with higher deductability, etc.”

Are they allowed to? Doesn’t the state set the standards for what the policy must cover?


19 posted on 04/13/2010 12:56:32 PM PDT by Pessimist (u)
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To: bruinbirdman
"Imagine if Democrat legislators actually understood the impact of their massive legislation"........Hell!, I understand it!
20 posted on 04/13/2010 12:59:35 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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