First, NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams reported that the “website for the president’s new health care law is back up tonight after yet another technical problem over the weekend that prevented people from signing up for health insurance … yet again.” Then he went on, bemoaning, “For many middle-class Americans who buy their own health insurance, there could be another frustration and that is ‘sticker shock’ — after some learned they must buy new policies that cover more, but cost more as well.”
Couldn’t be. In pushing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama had promised, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
And presumably “afford” your plan, too. (Well, there are good old-fashioned government subsidies!)
Williams then turned to correspondent Peter Alexander, who announced that the absolute catastrophe of the healthcare.gov website “is masking what is the real issue here, how much these plans will actually cost.”
At Forbes weeks ago, the headline to Avik Roy’s column suggested a connection: “Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are.”
A website that crashes to hide the cost of insurance the law demands you purchase seems far-fetched. Next they’ll claim the Administration somehow knew so many folks would lose their insurance policies.
Er, well, “That millions will lose or have to change their individual policies is not a surprise to the administration” noted Alexander.
Say, what?
NBC News found “buried in the 2010 Obamacare regulations language predicting that ‘A reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate … is 40 percent to 67 percent.’”
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1 reply on “The End — er, ACA — Is Near”
That last paragraph is particularly telling; “buried in…
40 – 67%.” We can also thank Mrs. Pelosi (& I’m paraphrasing but you get the gist) who urged that we pass the law to find out what was in it.
The only people who can possibly be happy with Obamacare are those who won’t be paying for it. That is if they can find a doctor who will take it. The vast “majority” will be forced to pay for services they don’t need. Past menopause, I will still have to pay for pregnancy, obstetrics & pediatrics. How ridiculous is that?! And the deductibles, no one is talking about that or the co-pays.
This law was written by a bunch of buffoons who don’t want any part of the coverage.
If you want to increase entitlements, then that’s what the law should have been dressed up as, NOT a forced mandate on the working class.