http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/11/november-2013-unfolding-obama-care.html
We have done similar series both in October and September of this year but the disasters have just kept on coming, requiring us to go back to the subject again this month. In fact, there is so much going on that this series of posts is more a review of the idiocy and fiascos rather than analysis. The previous months post where much of the analysis was already done start at the following posts:
http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/10/october-2013-obama-care-disaster-update.html
http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-2013-obama-care-update-part-1.html
1) The Heritage Foundation reported on an Obama Care security breech last week. Justin Hadley, a North Carolina man who, after learning his insurance policy was being canceled due to Obama Care, logged on to HealthCare.gov and found a big surprise, the eligibility information of another family in a different state. It is assumed that this information included personal family information, the type of data that identify thieves constantly look for and in this case, the government’s faulty processes just let out the info without even trying.
If the personal information of other families is given away willingly, imagine how easy it would be for a dedicated and experienced identity thief to infiltrate the Obama Care data systems and get other Americans personal info. Scary.
2) In that same Heritage post, they do a nice, succinct job of laying out why Obama Care is a failing disaster, especially from a freedom and personal choice perspective [the following comes directly from their :
- Violates Obama’s Promises: Across the country, millions of Americans are finding out the same news as Justin: that the insurance they have and like is being taken away from them due to Obamacare. In fact, the cancellation notices being sent due to Obamacare may well exceed the number of Americans gaining coverage as a result of the law.
- Violates Families’ Pocketbooks: Justin was told that a new insurance plan with his same insurer would cost him 92 percent more in premiums. That’s because the mandates and requirements included in Obamacare are raising premiums for many Americans. A recent Heritage study found that, for those buying coverage in the private market, premiums will rise in 45 out of 50 states, in many cases doubling.
- Violates Principles of Freedom: For the first time ever, Obamacare forces Americans to buy a product. And Americans don’t just have to buy health insurance—they have to buy government-approved health insurance. That’s why many Americans are losing the current coverage they have and like—because it doesn’t meet the diktats of Washington bureaucrats.
- Violates Americans’ Consciences: Obamacare forces many employers to offer, and individuals to purchase, coverage that violates the core tenets of their faith regarding the protection of life. These requirements are currently being challenged in court cases across the country, as Americans protest the concept that they should have to choose between violating the law and violating their deeply held religious beliefs.
3) One of the big problems with Obama Care is that Americans are losing access to their preferred insurance plans and their preferred doctors. This is happening to millions of Americans around the country, far more than the 5% lie that the President tried to pawn off on America in an interview earlier last week. But besides just losing access to current plans and doctors, there is a bigger, more subtle disaster brewing.
Consider the story of a gall bladder cancer patient who wrote of her life threatening situation as a result of Obama Care. Her situation was eloquently described in a recent Wall Street Journal article that can be accessed at:
http://www.teaparty.org/wsj-also-cant-keep-doctor-30241/
You see, one of the comebacks from Obama Care supporters is no big deal, if you lose your insurance, you can get new insurance from the Obama Care exchanges. However, what they do not say or do not understand is that all coverage is not the same. This American with gall bladder cancer has beat all odds with the help of preffered doctors, hospitals, and insurance plans that she is comfortable with and finds affordable.
However, any plans she might try to sign up for since losing her current plan do not include her doctors or her hospitals. She is going to have to start over again in her fight against cancer with strange doctors and hospitals that likely are not as good as her former medical support, given how well she has survived a fatal cancer. Her words from the article:
My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
Before the Affordable Care Act, health-insurance policies could not be sold across state lines; now policies sold on the Affordable Care Act exchanges may not be offered across county lines.
What happened to the president’s promise, “You can keep your health plan”? Or to the promise that “You can keep your doctor”? Thanks to the law, I have been forced to give up a world-class health plan. The exchange would force me to give up a world-class physician.
For a cancer patient, medical coverage is a matter of life and death. Take away people’s ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that’s a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that’s the point.
She is part of the 5% Mr. President, a real life example of why Obama Care is not only bad for the healthy but possibly fatal for the ill.
4) “If you like your plan and you like your doctors, you do not have to do a thing.” That was the promise that the President made numerous times over the past few years, something that the gallbladder patient we just discussed would take issue with. In fact, the following video clip show him making that very same promise 23 times over the past three years.
In none of these instances of his own words does he say 5% of America will lose access to their preferred pans and preferred doctors, that millions of Americans will lose access to their plans and doctors, that the Obama Care exchange plans will be much more expensive relative to people’s previous insurance premiums and deductibles. Everything is fine, just be cool nothing is going to happen to you if you are happy with what you have today, a statement uttered falsely at least 23 times:
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-on-obamacare-if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it-2013-10#ixzz2jPXQDSTO
5) If you ignore every analysis, research study, and reality we have talked about in this blog over the past four years, if you are overwhelmed and confused about Obama Care and what it is doing to America, if you just want a nice summary of what the heck is going on, please go to the following link:
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/91808-obamacare-deconstructed-one-video-tells-truth-obamacare/
It is a 17 minute video that does a great summary job of the lies and deceptions that the supporters of Obama Care have been operating under since it became law. It uses the President’s own words and then deconstructs the deceit behind those words.
For example, he stands in front of Congress and pledges that the 10 year cost of Obama Care will be only about $900 billion, an estimate confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office. However, the underlying deceit is that he uses a ten year period in which Obama Care is not paying out costs and expenses in four of those years.
When we look at the ten year period that begins with the actual implementation of Obama Care, we see that his $900 billion claim is off by…$900 billion. When the Congressional Budget Office looked at the real ten year horizon of Obama Care, their estimate doubles to a staggering cost of $1.8 billion.
This is just one of the lies and deceptions that have been foisted on the American public, lies and deceit and deceptions that are causing Americans to lose access to doctors and plans, substantially raising the cost of their new health insurance, causing doctors to prematurely resign rather than deal with Obama Care, adding trillions to our national debt, and causing current Americans to possibly die because they while the can find insurance, they cannot find the right kind of insurance.
But perhaps worst of all, it has hardened and disappointed many Americans because many of our so-called leaders in Washington, lied to us. There is no way around it. Lies, deceit, deception. And we now know to trust no one in the White House or in Congress because once you lie to us dozens of times, they have destroyed their credibility, their integrity, and their humanity.
And a nation that cannot trust its leaders is a nation that cannot go forward in a united way to a better tomorrow since the tomorrow that is promised by Washington is likely to be different once tomorrow comes.
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