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From IBD:
- Cbs: Obamacare Hiking Costs For Employers, Forcing Them To Drop Coverage For Workers
From Fox News: Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted. Their losses would be in addition to the millions who found their individual...
- "as Many As 52 Million Americans Could Lose Or Have Lost Old Insurance Plans”
The McClatchy Newspaper group (not exactly a right wing center of political thought):Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that...
- But They Were Martyrs For The Greater Good: Nbc-obama Admin. Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance
NBC NewsPresident Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their...
- Obamacare Fail
Forget the hope of those high-risk pools for health insurance: Funds run low for health insurance in state ‘high-risk pools’ Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from...
- Health Insurance Nightmare
Short video of particular interest to me (hat tip to Hard To Swallow): As of this past spring, after long months of searching options and filing applications, this household of two has two individual, high-deductible policies. Indeed, such catastrophic-coverage...
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Another ObamaCare Lie: Protecting Those With Pre-Existing Conditions
We Get the Government We Deserve
From IBD:
The Affordable Care Act gets curioser and curioser. President Obama promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions and help the uninsured. Yet these vulnerable groups are getting clobbered.
Congress needs to act to protect them and not wait until the entire misadventure plays out. Here's a plan of action: The people most threatened by ObamaCare have pre-existing conditions, meaning health problems that make it hard to get insurance.
To sell ObamaCare, the president actually lied, claiming he would protect these people. He even lied that his mother, Anne Dunham, a cancer victim, suffered because her insurer used the pre-existing condition excuse to drop her.
The truth, revealed in a 2011 biography, is she had employer-provided insurance which paid her hospital bills until the end of her life. Since 1996, employer-provided plans have been barred from dropping or excluding anyone based on a pre-existing condition. Nor does Medicare or Medicaid.
The pre-existing conditions problem affects about 2 million people in the individual market. The best options for these sick people are being closed because of ObamaCare.
In 35 states, they currently get coverage through high-risk pools, where premiums are subsidized to help keep them within reach. Most of these pools have long waiting lists. But high-risk pools must close on Dec. 31, 2013, or shortly after, because the Affordable Care Act directs ill patients to enroll in ObamaCare exchange plans.GO READ THE WHOLE THING.
- Cbs: Obamacare Hiking Costs For Employers, Forcing Them To Drop Coverage For Workers
From Fox News: Almost 80 million people with employer health plans could find their coverage canceled because they are not compliant with ObamaCare, several experts predicted. Their losses would be in addition to the millions who found their individual...
- "as Many As 52 Million Americans Could Lose Or Have Lost Old Insurance Plans”
The McClatchy Newspaper group (not exactly a right wing center of political thought):Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that...
- But They Were Martyrs For The Greater Good: Nbc-obama Admin. Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance
NBC NewsPresident Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their...
- Obamacare Fail
Forget the hope of those high-risk pools for health insurance: Funds run low for health insurance in state ‘high-risk pools’ Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from...
- Health Insurance Nightmare
Short video of particular interest to me (hat tip to Hard To Swallow): As of this past spring, after long months of searching options and filing applications, this household of two has two individual, high-deductible policies. Indeed, such catastrophic-coverage...