What he meant to say and what he said are two different things. He purposefully misled people. An easy task these days but people should be upset and outraged by this.
The key points to the story are these. 1-Obama said many times if you like your plan you can keep your plan. 2-He knew all along that 40 to 60 per cent would lose their plans. This isn't typical spinning. These are outright lies to force a socialistic health care plan thru.
Those of you who thought he had a magic wand that would add reasons your plan would pay out but not increase the premiums are shocked and appalled, duped by marketing-savvy politicians.
It's more of a revelation. Many here in the Gulch knew what would happen when Obamacare went live. Some brave souls shouted that many would lose their coverage. Most of the mainstream media fiddled as time went by. NBC is now admitting what we all knew for some time.
I think what he meant was most plans would go on the same, but they would have to meet the minimum requirements. So in the politicians' minds, my plan is a new-and-improved (and more expensive) version of exactly what I had.
When they were working on this they were going to outlaw HSAs altogether. I told my Congresswoman, my plan would be radically changed if they took away the HSA component. Eventually they dropped the HSA requirement. I tried to get them to drop other requirements, making them optional. That didn't happen. Anyone paying attention knew this. I don't buy the indignation. It's political.
It's a scandal because the President has been saying if you like your plan you can keep it, when it was not a surprise to them that likely 50% of plans were going to go away under the new regs. Yeah, this is some kind of scandal. It's a scandal the news media wasn't immediately hammering him on this because as you say, everyone in the business KNEW this was a huge lie, and it was conveniently not reported until after an election.
I'm impatient! We don't have much time....We need to have the truth screamed by those who can't deny it anymore. It should be twitted to EVERYone! And facebooked to the masses. How do we do that?
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All of my friends wanted him back in Chicago, pounding the streets for ACORN.
1-Obama said many times if you like your plan you can keep your plan.
2-He knew all along that 40 to 60 per cent would lose their plans.
This isn't typical spinning. These are outright lies to force a socialistic health care plan thru.
When they were working on this they were going to outlaw HSAs altogether. I told my Congresswoman, my plan would be radically changed if they took away the HSA component. Eventually they dropped the HSA requirement. I tried to get them to drop other requirements, making them optional. That didn't happen. Anyone paying attention knew this. I don't buy the indignation. It's political.
I can see where you were not expecting this from your choice for the Leader of our Republic. You knew exactly what you were getting....
The rest of us are outraged.