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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Democrats Knew All Along Obamacare Would Mean Americans Losing Plans

UPI: More than 7 M To Lose
Current Heath Insurance
Today in Washington, D.C. - Oct 29, 2013
The Senate reconvened at 10 AM today and began consideration of the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 26, a resolution of disapproval of the increase in the debt limit. At 2:15, the Senate will vote on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 26 and then on cloture on the controversial nomination of former union lawyer Richard Griffin to be general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.

Yesterday, without any debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed cloture (moved to cut off debate) on a whole slew of controversial nominations, including Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Patricia Millett to be a judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals

The House reconvened at 10 AM today. They will be considering
HR 2640 — Central Oregon Jobs and Water Security Act
HR 623 — Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act
HR 330 — Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial Act
HR 2337 — Lake Hill Administrative Site Affordable Housing Act
HR 2374 — Retail Investor Protection Act

Yesterday, the House passed:
H.R. 3304 (Voice Vote) — "To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to Bennie G. Adkins and Donald P. Sloat of the United States Army for acts of valor during the Vietnam Conflict and to authorize the award of the Medal of Honor to certain other veterans who were previously recommended for award of the Medal of Honor."
H.R. 1742 (Voice Vote) — "To exclude from consideration as income under the United States Housing Act of 1937 payments of pension made under section 1521 of title 38, United States Code, to veterans who are in need of regular aid and attendance, and for other purposes."
H.R. 2481 (Voice Vote) — "To amend title 38, United States Code, to codify and improve the election requirements for the receipt of educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance program of the Department of Veterans Affairs."
H.R. 1405 (Voice Vote) — "To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include an appeals form in any notice of decision issued for the denial of a benefit sought."
H.R. 2189 (404-1) — "To establish a commission or task force to evaluate the backlog of disability claims of the Department of Veterans Affairs." Noted that the sole vote against was by Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina. Wonder if he pushed the wrong button.
H.R. 2011 (404-2) — "To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a two-year extension of the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education."

Today the House Ways & Means Committee is holding hearings on the Status of ObamaCare Implementation.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 10/30 – At the House Energy & Commerce Committee HHS Secretary Sebelius is supposed to testify.


Rep. Darrell Issa remarked about HHS Sec. Sebelius on Sunday:
"If she cannot reorganize to get the kind of a team in consistently to meet (President Obama's) agenda, then she shouldn't be there," the California Republican said on CBS' Face the Nation. "When she says she didn't know, why didn't she know that the president's signature legislation was in fact in trouble? The president has been poorly served, if somebody doesn't leave, if there isn't a real restructuring -- not just a 60-day 'somebody come in and try to fix it' -- then he's missing the point of Management 101."House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today emphasized that the problems with the president’s health care law go far beyond the website, citing higher premiums, canceled policies, and small business’ reluctance to hire as just a few of the law’s most damaging consequences. Boehner said:“The problem with ObamaCare isn’t just the website – it’s the whole law. And I’ve heard from hundreds of my constituents who are seeing their premiums rise, they’re seeing their policies being canceled. Many, again, are losing their plans. . . . I was at a small business in my district last Friday. They’ve got 46 employees. They provide health care to their employees, scared to death though to hire anyone else because if they do, their whole plan is going to be subject to more government approval. They don’t want to do it. That’s why I said last week that ObamaCare’s like a wet blanket over our economy. American people are looking for more jobs, better wages, but with all the uncertainty around this law employers are having a very difficult time making decisions. It’s time to delay this. It’s time to fix this before it gets any worse.”NBC News reported last night, “President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years. Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a ‘cancellation’ letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience ‘sticker shock. None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. . . . 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.”

NBC and other news outlets are finally confirming what Republicans said all along: this flawed, unpopular law, will result in many Americans losing their health care coverage, contrary to repeated explicit promises from Democrats. Some Democrats are even admitting that they knew. According to National Review’s Jonathan Strong, “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.” Strong notes in a later post, “Although he now says he and other Democrats knew some Americans would be kicked off their health care plans by Obamacare, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer himself issued an emphatic, categorical claim to the contrary at a 2009 town hall: ‘Under Democratic health proposals, “we keep what works and fix what doesn’t,” Hoyer said. “If you’ve got it, you like it, you keep it.”’”

Meanwhile, reports continue to pour in from all over the country about Obamacare hurting consumers, just as Republicans predicted when they opposed it. CBS reports, “CBS News has learned more than two million Americans have been told they cannot renew their current insurance policies -- more than triple the number of people said to be buying insurance under the new Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. There have been estimates about hundreds of thousands of people losing coverage, CBS News' Jan Crawford reported on ‘CBS This Morning.’ CBS News has reached out to insurance companies across the country to determine some of the real numbers -- and this is just the tip of the iceberg, Crawford said. The people who are opening the letters are shocked to learn they can't keep their insurance policies despite President Obama's assurances to the contrary. The White House is on the defensive trying to explain it, after Mr. Obama repeatedly said, ‘If you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it.’ . . . [T]he hard numbers reveal the evidence is far more than anecdotal. CBS News has confirmed with insurance companies across the country that more than two million people are getting notices they no longer can keep their existing plans. In California, there are 279,000; in Michigan, 140,000; Florida, 300,000; and in New Jersey, 800,000. And those numbers are certain to go even higher. Some companies who tell CBS News they've sent letters won't say how many.”

In Seattle, KING 5 reports, “Hundreds of thousands of people in Washington state are receiving letters in the mail from their insurers, informing them ‘your health insurance plan will no longer be available’ under the Affordable Care Act. This is despite a promise President Obama repeated campaigning for his health care reform plan, where he stated, ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it.’ Nikki Gibson, a hair stylist in Seattle, is among the 290,000 people in the state who pay for their own health insurance. She received the letter from Regence a month ago. ‘It's not the truth,’ said Gibson. ‘You don't get to keep your premiums. You don't get to keep anything.’”

This morning on the Senate floor, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell once again blasted Democrats’ health care law: “[T]he President likes to say that Obamacare is about more than just a website. He’s absolutely right. And that’s why fixing a website won’t solve the larger problem here. The larger problem is Obamacare itself. The larger problem is what the few people who actually have signed up for coverage have discovered about this law. The larger problem is how Obamacare is hurting people out there: It’s about college graduates and middle-class families getting hit with massive premium increases they can’t afford. It’s about workers seeing their hours cut and their paychecks shrink because of this law. It’s about the millions of Americans who will lose their current health coverage because of Obamacare—despite the President’s promises. According to news reports, the Obama Administration knew for at least three years that millions of Americans would not be able to keep their health coverage. The President’s Press Secretary basically admitted yesterday that Americans would lose coverage too. Remember, this is the same President who said – and I’m quoting – ‘If you like your health-care plan, you'll be able to keep your health-care plan, period…No one will take it away, no matter what.’ This is just one of the many reasons Americans feel betrayed. . . . It’s not fair. It’s not right. And Republicans are going to keep fighting to get our constituents relief from this partisan law. Of course, the most logical course would be to simply stop this trainwreck and start over. But Washington Democrats still appear more interested in protecting the President’s namesake legacy than protecting their constituents from this law.”

If Democrats ever finally change their minds, it is very obvious that the Republicans are ready to repeal and replace this unpopular law with reforms that actually lower costs and provide choice to consumers instead of growing government.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anita Messenger said...

Republican leadership knew it, too...

10/30/2013  
Blogger Bill Smith said...

Anita, Republicans indeed know and continued to shout out this warning. As detailed in the next article ObamaCare Didn't Terminate Your Health Plan; President Obama Did! the House republicans tried to stop this action and the House democrats prevented them from doing so. The President & WH also called these Republicans "obstructionists."

10/30/2013  

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