"If you like your insurance plan you can keep it"...Oh really?

Obama keeps saying "if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them". I discovered this page at the whitehouse.gov website (see link below...it even has a handy "eight consumer protections" to click on if you're inclined to do so).



From everything I've been reading about the ObamaCare Bill, this claim that our president keeps making is a LIE. This bill is designed to put small insurers out of business. A small business has to generate revenues, and pay expenses and remain profitable in order to stay in business. The government merely exists. It has a guaranteed stream of income (our tax dollars) and it doesn't have to make a profit to stay in business. Hell, it can operate at a loss and stay in business (which makes Obama's recent comment about the Postal Service very comical).



What is particularly reprehensible about this bill is that there are no provisions for Tort Reform (not even one word in a 1000+ page bill), it puts burdensome mandates on insurance companies and doctors and it will ultimately force us onto a government-run, single-payer plan.



I get so discouraged by folks who hear Obama say "If you like your insurance, you can keep it" and they swallow it whole without realizing how misleading his little sound-bite morsels are. He doesn't go into specifics; he just sticks to the sound-bite and turns things around to attack his misleading opponents. The funny thing is his "opponents" (hard working Americans who take the time to be heard at Town Hall meetings) are probably more informed than the House of Representatives who put out this stinker of a bill.



I guess my question is, as contentious as Y/A "Politics and Government" is at times, are any of you who were really gung-ho about government run health care still as turned on by it now that more and more of the information contained in the fine print is trickling out?



http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are鈥?/a>"If you like your insurance plan you can keep it"...Oh really?
I feel the same way.The President claims to be transparent but i've seen blind folds that were transparent.And it makes me so sad to think that our politicians are dumb enough to go for this.



you can lead a man to congris but you cant make him think
"small insurers out of business". Can you name a small insurer?



Didn't think so. You must work for an insurance company if you are against health care reform. They are (the insurance companies) the only ones against it."If you like your insurance plan you can keep it"...Oh really?
Yeah, I see what you're saying: because government has no executives, shareholders, advertising or profit, they'll be able to provide a superior product at a lower cost, and then why would anybody choose to pay more for mediocre and unreliable services? Oh sure, they SAY we can still 'choose' but the reality is only an idiot would make such a stupid choice. You're right, that is intellectually dishonest.
Blah! Blah! Blah! No different than the crazies who are paid by the Republican conservatives to interupt town hall meetings by screeching and trying to drown out the speakers. Scratch a screecher and find a racist!!!"If you like your insurance plan you can keep it"...Oh really?
the fact of the matter is that the demoncraps will only give vague "non-answers" as we keep seeing in the town halls in every city and town across america. people are tired of being dragged around. obama said his administration would be transparent and every time so far he has set unrealistic deadlines to spend trillions of dollars that aren't his to spend and expect this legislation to pass on his word without anyone reading anything but the title page on the bill. it's absurd. and then nancy pelosi starts railing about how political dissenters are un-american we she herself threatened to block the defense budget two years ago while we were at war.
The man is lying through his teeth and people better wake up fast because he's determined to pass this steaming pile of poo. H.R. 3200 page 16 addresses this issue of keeping your insurance. The problem is, employers will have a financial incentive to dump their employee insurance plans in order to pay the government fine instead because it's cheaper for them. The way this bill is written, people will be forced to go onto the public plan. In this country, people confuse lack of health care vs. lack of insurance. There was never a lack of health care in America. Some people deliberately choose not to buy insurance (either because they're healthy, they can't afford it, they just don't want to, etc.). Now those people will be FORCED to buy insurance because they have to state it on their income tax forms or else be fined for it! Is this the change that half the country voted for? Thanks a lot idiots!! Where are all the dimbulbs who complained about GWB now? This is nothing but an unconstitutional power grab and the ignorant among us don't even see the thuggery being perpetrated on them.



You really want to be scared? Read H.R.3200 (page 298) Doctors and hospitals will be penalized for readmitting a patient for a condition they're currently being treated for. This is based on statistical analysis of admissions for similar illnesses. It's in the bill. I don't understand why people don't want to read and be informed. The media need to get their heads out of their asses, forget about Sarah Palin, forget about the angry mobs and forget about Barack's vacation on Martha's Vineyard. The real story is in the fine print of this bill. They should start doing their job for a change.