Finally ... Barack Obama Wins A Prize He Deserves
Here is one for the pollsters. A full 58% of voters for Politifact's Lie of the Year award picked Obama's, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." It was overwhelming. Not one other lie registered in the double digits with the voters. It is amazing there is not more protesting of this Administration. They have proved they are power hungry, inept and dishonest. There is nothing more surprising than how the citizens of our great nation are being led by the nose by those who took an oath and said they would uphold the Constitution.
The Constitution was written to keep government involvement out of individual's lives and here we are with an overbearing and burdensome government meddling in people's lives ANYWAYS. The Bill of Rights was written to make it perfectly clear that government should be limited and not impose itself on the daily activities of the populace. There is no other purpose to limit the Federal government and that is what the Bill of Rights does. We were tired of the British and we had a little tea party to protest. Now it seems they have revived and they are being vilified by the current administration. Turns out the Tea Party was right. Big government doesn't work and Obamacare DOES HURT BUSINESS (just ask any objective small business owner) and it is a TAX.
Without going into whether or not Federal Courts are objective or not when it comes to the power of the Federal government, Obamacare was passed under the taxing power of Congress. It was not found to be constitutional under the General Welfare clause as most Progressives insisted. It was a reach for the Supreme Court but where there is a will there is a way.
So in the past if you were having a hard time paying your bills you were just having a hard time paying your bills. Now that the IRS is in charge you will not only have a hard time paying your bills but you will have to deal with getting an IRS lien put on your house if you don't pay for your insurance and/or deal with any other collection method used by the IRS while having a hard time paying your bills. Doesn't sound like such a good deal to me.
Did the President know people wouldn't be able to keep their health care plans?
The Obama Administration knew as far back as 2010 that up to 66% of those covered under small employer health plans and up to 45% of those covered under large employer health plans would lose their insurance by the end of 2013 because their plans would no longer meet the "grandfathered status" from Section 1251 of the Affordable Care Act. The report in the June 2010 Federal Register also predicted MASSIVE DISRUPTIONS in the private insurance market. Any claim that the President didn't know what he was saying was a lie or that the Administration was unaware of the problems they are causing or about to cause the American people with their health insurance is just LUDICROUS.
Link to Article about 93 million Americans losing their health care plans
If that isn't enough proof then maybe the CBO report from May of this year that Obamacare would push 7 million people out of employer-based health insurance should be sufficient.
Link to news report on CBO report
If the President was so lazy (his words ... not mine) and he read the Bill before he signed it he would have seen that the current health care plans have to meet Federal mandates within 5 years. All health care plans are being forced by the government to offer "essential health benefits" including ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance abuse services, prescription drugs, pediatric services and other "benefits" that the government deems you must have.
Link to read the ACA
So the question is why would the President lie?
Basically because he could and it worked. The President has been lying and stating you can keep your health care plan ever since he began his effort for a Utopian government health care plan. The reason he had to do this is simply because he knows he wouldn't have had the votes to get into office and force this health care and redistribution schemes down the throats of the American people. If Barack Obama had been honest about how his health care plan adds costs, disrupts coverage and does absolutely nothing to lower the health care cost curve then he would never have elected.
Barack Obama played on people's hopes and dreams and downplayed the fear of losing existing health care plan or coverages ... and it worked. He is a masterful politician but the question you must ask yourself is, "If Barack Obama lied about something as sacred as my healthcare then what else can he lie about." Maybe we should have less faith in government and more faith and self-reliance in ourselves.
Link to APA article from June 2009 questioning The Lie in contrast to CBO Report
Now it turns out that the President thinks the public has had about all it can take with his health care fiasco and has taken steps to postpone the new higher premiums that the public will pay until after the 2014 elections. Senators John Barrasso, Lamar Alexander and Mike Enzi want to be sure citizens and business are well aware of the steep increases in their health care premiums before the next election because they want to be sure voters are aware of the consequences of their votes and the resulting premium insurance hikes they will receive under Obamacare.
These Republican Senators have introduced legislation called the Premium Disclosure Act that requires the increases to take place before the next election. Sounds good. After all ... the President shouldn't be able to alter a law that passed both houses with an executive statement or an Executive Order. Sounds honest. Sounds fair.
Link to proposed Senate Legislation
Link to PolitiFact.com Lie of the Year Award
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