Posted on 09/19/2010 8:00:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The Obama administration this week plans to revive its pitch for the health-care overhaul, hoping that a slate of consumer-friendly provisions will boost public support before midterm elections.
Starting Thursday, insurers officially must adhere to about a half-dozen key changes under the law, including eliminating co-payments for preventive services and allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance policy until their 26th birthday.
Democrats structured the provisions so they would kick in right before the elections, thinking incumbents would have a tangible achievement to promote on the campaign trail.
But public support for the law continues to lag, with Americans split roughly in half over whether they support it, and the debate over jobs and taxes is squeezing the health law out of Democrats' election narrative.
In recent weeks, insurance companies have started mailing consumers letters informing them of double-digit rate increases starting this month, partially attributing them to the mandates that begin Thursday. That is sowing confusion among consumers, and muddying the Democrats' contention that the law will rein in sharply rising premiums.
The administration is chiding insurers for such increases, saying the new benefits only minimally increase insurers' costs.
On the campaign trail, "there are snapshots of people clearly running away from the bill," Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal broadcast on C-SPAN. But on the whole, candidates are championing things such as funding for electronic medical records and insurance protections, she said. "We have a whole new day for health care in America," she said.
President Barack Obama plans to give a health-care speech Wednesday to highlight the new provisions, with a "heavy emphasis on people who are already benefiting from the law," an administration official said.
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More lies forthcoming.
Good. Hopefully the idiot will keep talking about it.
It gives conservatives more opportunities to talk about how it will bankrupt America and make it to where we all have bad healthcare.
The more the idiot talks, the better for us.
If Obama REALLY wanted to help democrats in the upcoming election, his best bet would be to go on an extended vacation until November 3rd.
60% of Americans HATE this nightmarish ObamaCare.
So... run with it democrats!
Is Obama so crazy as to do this?
Does he really think it will help the rats?
I’m sorry to say this will probably work. The American people, as a whole, have already shown themselves to be too stupid or just too lazy to keep a constitutional republic in place.
He’s touting “reparations”. This got him into office the first time.
WOOPIE - That’s the ticket!
My emails must have gotten through to The Usurper, or at least to some of his political strategist!
Just a question about the absurd rule to allow your “child” up to age 26 on to your health insurance.... say your 25 year old is added to your health insurance. Said 25 year old suffers some horrible disease/accident and incurs massive medical bills. Your insurance pays whatever it is required to pay.. who is responsible for the rest of the bills? You or your 25 year old “child”.
The definition of insanity is reloading the same tired old speeches into your teleprompter season after season despite the fact that the public never buys them.
Especially if people are getting letters from their insurer telling them about alllll the new things they are required to cover. A nice way of saying “We’re gonna raise your premiums in a few months to pay for all of this crap.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091310/content/01125110.guest.html
Obama even admitted it! Last week in Ohio! (paraphrase) “Don’t be silly. Everybody knew, you start adding 32 million people, health care rolls, prices are going to go up, nobody said it was going to be free.”
. . . Or too fatalistic.
I see, the tout of the day?
It’s not just a presidency; it’s a board game, with its own spinner, dice, fake money, and synthetic people in charge of things.
This Congressman conned us;
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/89886767.html?page=2&c=y
Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “...They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system...”
“We have a whole new day for health care in America,”
Soon Sebilius and the other scum on Borak’s cabinet will have a lot of “whole new days,” plenty of time to ponder their belly buttons and gaze at clouds as they await their unemployment checks.
As I see it, open enrollment in employer insurance is big this time of year and costs are rising. Keep telling us how much you are helping us TOTUS.
The sad thing is, touting ObamaCare is probably the best idea this
stupid ass has had in the last several weeks.
Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please brag about it. Lots.
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