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

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

From Jim Gheraghty – Morning Jolt

Obama ‘Misspoke’ (Lied) on Lots More than Keeping Your Plan

Just for fun, let’s turn the wayback machine to September 26, 2013, and take a look at how President Obama was touting the imminent debut of Healthcare.gov:

Now, five days from now — five days from now — on October 1st, millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance because they’ve been priced out of the market or because they’ve been denied access because of a preexisting condition, they will finally be able to buy quality, affordable health insurance. (Applause.) In five days.

Eh, not so much: “The survey, conducted by nonprofit research foundation The Commonwealth Fund, found that 21 percent of adults who visited the health-insurance marketplaces said they enrolled. Of those who visited but did not enroll, 48 percent said they weren’t sure they could afford a plan, 46 said they were still deciding on a plan, and 37 said they had technical difficulties with the website.”

Back to Obama:

About 85 percent of Americans already have health insurance -– either through their job, or through Medicare, or through the individual market. So if you’re one of these folks, it’s reasonable that you might worry whether health care reform is going to create changes that are a problem for you — especially when you’re bombarded with all sorts of fear-mongering.

So the first thing you need to know is this: If you already have health care, you don’t have to do anything…

The so-called fear-mongers were right: “At least 3.5 million Americans have been issued cancellations, but the exact number is unclear. Associated Press checks find that data is unavailable in half the states.”

Crazy fear-mongers.  Right again.

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