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Thread #152434   Message #3574551
Posted By: Songwronger
10-Nov-13 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: So who's signed up for Obamacare?
Subject: RE: BS: So who's signed up for Obamacare?
OK. From Forbes magazine:

Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare

Section 1251 of the Affordable Care Act contains what's called a "grandfather" provision that, in theory, allows people to keep their existing plans if they like them. But SUBSEQUENT REGULATIONS FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION interpreted that provision so narrowly as to prevent most plans from gaining this protection.

"The Departments' mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013," wrote the administration on page 34,552 of the Register. All in all, more than half of employer-sponsored plans will lose their "grandfather status" and become illegal. According to the Congressional Budget Office, 156 million Americans—more than half the population—was covered by employer-sponsored insurance in 2013....

...President Obama's famous promise that "you could keep your plan" was not some naïve error or accident. He, and his allies, knew that previous Democratic attempts at health reform had failed because Americans were happy with the coverage they had, and opposed efforts to change the existing system.

Now, supporters of the law are offering a different argument. "We didn't really mean it when we said you could keep your plan," they say, "but it doesn't matter, because the coverage you're going to get under Obamacare will be better than the coverage you had before."

But that's not true. Obamacare forces insurers to offer services that most Americans don't need, don't want, and won't use, for a higher price....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/31/obama-officials-in-2010-93-million-americans-will-be-unable-to-keep-their-h

So, Obamacare was signed into law. Section 1251 of the law allowed for keeping health insurance plans. But then Obama went to work narrowing the scope of the clause, while he told the people that nothing had changed. "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period." He is a liar. And his lie will lead to untold numbers of dead. He is a murderer. He needs to be held accountable.