The Realities of DemocratCare…. or ‘They Don’t Call us “The Right!” For Nothing.’ Part X - Granite Grok

The Realities of DemocratCare…. or ‘They Don’t Call us “The Right!” For Nothing.’ Part X

The Obama Administation knew all along that as many as 50-60% or more of us would lose our plans under ObamaCare.

From Right Wing bastion – NBC

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”  

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.

Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,” was still saying in 2012, “If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.”

“This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” said  Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms. Laszewski estimates that 80 percent of those in the individual market will not be able to keep their current policies and will have to buy insurance that meets requirements of the new law, which generally requires a richer package of benefits than most policies today.

Steny Hoyer has also admitted that the plan, by design, would probably kick a whole lot of people off their plan, but hey…what’s important here is stability.

NRO

House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer conceded to reporters today that Democrats knew people would not be able to keep their current health care plans under Obamacare and expressed qualified contrition for President Obama’s repeated vows to the contrary.

“We knew that there would be some policies that would not qualify and therefore people would be required to get more extensive coverage,” Hoyer said in response to a question from National Review.

Asked by another reporter how repeated statements by Obama to the contrary weren’t “misleading,” Hoyer said “I don’t think the message was wrong. I think the message was accurate. It was not precise enough…[it] should have been caveated with – ‘assuming you have a policy that in fact does do what the bill is designed to do.’”

Coming soon from a Democrat near you, the admission that they knew you might not keep your doctor or hospital, that they knew your premiums would not go down but would in fact skyrocket, and (they’ve already started sowing the ground for this one) Death panels were a given cuz when you try to give millions of people free stuff they use alot more of it and someone has to pay for that, with their lives, or at least their quality of life,  you know.  Change.  Forward. Right over your grandma if needed.

 

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