"if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.”
But that’s not what he really said. Got it!
"Millions of people could qualify for federal subsidies that will pay the entire monthly cost of some health care plans being offered in the online marketplaces set up under President Obama’s health care law, a surprising figure that has not garnered much attention, in part because the zero-premium plans come with serious trade-offs.
The vast majority of people who voted for politicians who supported the Affordable Care Act fully expect their plans to have very low deductibles ($500 - $1,000 or less), normal copay percentaages of roughly 80%, and virtually uninhibited access to medical providers. At best, the second one might be present in some plans; you can forget about Items 1 and 3.
The primary mission of Abelson's and Thomas's report appears to be to delay that inevitable firestorm by throwing around the magic word "free....."And now that "The People" are starting awake to the sick pig they just bought called ObamaCare, and a bit of real socialism they can understand has grabbed them by the ankle, the numbers and figures no one cared about are starting to become clear and giving a dose of stark reality.
"The projections, prepared by the Society of Actuaries in March, 2013 predicted some pretty outrageous premium increases for people with individual coverage in the likes of California (62%), Alabama (60%), Texas (34%) and Arizona (41%). Only in New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey would the premiums decline slightly for people with individual coverage, a segment of the market that is expected to increase from 11.9 million people at present to 25.6 million as more Americans sign up for insurance coverage under ObamaCare.
These projected increases, which you won’t hear the White House mentioning, are due to “the fact that premiums are driven primarily by the underlying cost of medical care and not health plans administrative costs and profits.” In general, the states expected to have large jumps in the premium now have “low current individual costs and those having high current individual costs” will show decreases."Read the last sentence above again.
"All those cancellations of policies people thought they had been promised they could keep... They didn't know that back in the summer of 2010 the Administration issued regulations undoing that endlessly repeated promise (if a private company attempted that, we'd call it bait & switch) and then, in September 2010, Democrats voted unanimously to ratify that redefinition.
But the millions who will be so affected deserve more than just to be part of a large number that is dismissed and forgotten.
So Independent Women's Voice has created MyCancellation.com. Ask anyone you know who has received a cancellation letter to go there - ask them to submit a picture of their cancellation letter (if they don't block out personal info, we will - unlike the present administration, we actually are concerned about privacy). Even better, because each of these letters came as costly, horrific surprises to real people, is if they "put a face on it" -- include themselves in the picture."
"And if they really want to have fun - include a sign in the picture to tell the viewer what they think about this broken promise, or how much an increase they are looking at, or whatever else they want to convey.
Twitter suspended @MyCancellation (it's back up again now) shortly after its launch this afternoon, for no apparent reason, so we know someone's worried. With your help, we'll really give them something to worry about."
“They’ve been in business for decades, are grossly underfunded and have only a few million customers. It takes them six months just to lose your application. Their website is a Kafkaesque labyrinth straight out of Dante. You will f**king BEG me to be in charge again. Subpoena me one more time and I will f**king do it, bitches!"At press time, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki was seen nervously adjusting his beret and shifting uncomfortably in his seat when asked for comment.