Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Obamacare could have been more percise.


A recent fox News article states that house Democratic Leader- Steny Hoyer admits that Obamacare should have been “more precise” in acknowledging the risk that some Americans would lose their current insurance plans. He admitted this after a document from 2010 surfaced. That document predicted millions might be dropped by their providers, which explains why thousands of Americans have been getting letters, notifying them that their insurance plan has been cancelled. Hoyer goes on to say that officials knew some of the health plans would not qualify under the recent Obamacare regualtions. “The overall message to the public was accurate- just not precise enough” (Hoyer).
Like the article said, this gives a whole new meaning to Nancy Pelosi’s remark in which she said, "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." If a plan does not meet the requirements of Obamacare, the people are kicked off their plan and forced onto another. These plans tend to be more expensive and cover things that certain people do not need to worry about. For instance, I don’t think an 80 year old needs to have pregnancy coverage. The people should be able to be on the plans they chose for them, I’m sure they chose it for a reason. If they wanted more coverage then they would have gone with it in the first place. In 2009, President Obama said, "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." I hate to address the elephant in the room, but this is certainly not the case.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/29/pols-push-keep-your-health-plan-act-as-files-show-govt-knew-millions-could-lose/#

1 comment:

  1. I would like to say the obvious " President Obama lied to all Americans when he said that you could keep your health plan". It makes the Republicans look good that they wanted to delay Obamacare for a while. Nancy Pelosi is ridiculous for saying that we should pass it to find out what is in it. The Democrats pushed the plan through the House close to Christmas, before the new Congress came in. It was irrational to pass a bill before reading it. That should be illegal. I do not want a House Representative for my state passing any bill before reading it !!!

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