Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Obama launches promotion of health care law’s benefits

HealthCare.gov "launched" on October 1st and since then, there have been many problems regarding it and the Affordable Care Act in general.  For one the site has barely functioned due to a ton of technical issues and the site being launched even though it was still far from being completed.  And two many Americans have been upset about not being able to keep their current insurance plans.  But now according to Obama and the Democratic Party these problems have been resolved and they "plan to hold daily events highlighting the law until" the mandatory sign up date on December 23.  In response to this the Republican Party and the group The Americans for Prosperity are combating against this by increasing there effort to highlight the flaws in the legislation by increasing spending on "television and radio ads, online campaigns".  These efforts will not only target the law itself but the "specific Democrats from conservative states who supported it, including Senators Mark Begich of Alaska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana".

But there are many problems with what Obama and the Democrats are saying now.  For one their fix to the problems with cancelled insurance plans was to bribe insurance companies by offering them money "as an incentive for them to let people keep insurance policies that were to have been canceled next year".  And this "solution" is only for one year so what happens after that?  Is Obama just going to go back on the promise he made while trying to get Obamacare passed that "if you have your plan and you like your plan, you will keep your plan, period"?

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