Obama Health Care Lies

Obama is a liar.

Repeatedly, he has lied about his plan to "reform" health care. He doesn't want to "reform" it. He wants to dismantle the U.S. health care system and strip Americans of their freedom to choose their care.

Obama's plan makes INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE ILLEGAL.

Obama and his Democrat comrades intend to put the government in charge of making personal medical decisions for Americans rather than allowing them and their doctors to decide the course of care they should receive.

Of course, there are some exemptions. Congress will not have to be subjected to the rationed care that Obama is proposing.

THAT IS SO FREAKING SLEAZY.

Anyway, Investors' Business Daily offers some details about the Obama/Democrat health care train wreck.

It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage.

The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether."

What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.

The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less, than HSAs.

With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the welfare state will be removed.

The public option won't be an option for many, but rather a mandate for buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft tyranny.

Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn't be killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans' lives.

It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. It's scary to think how many more breaches of liberty we'll come across in the final 1,002.

"A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft tyranny."

YES.

Obama and the Dems don't want you to know what's in this legislation. That's why they're trying to rush the legislation through. They don't want you to know what it will mean for you and for your loved ones. They don't want you to realize that you will be at the mercy of the government when it comes to your health care.

They are flat-out lying about the plan again and again and again. If you're happy with your current coverage, too damn bad. Kiss it goodbye.

Want good coverage? Run for Congress.

Obama is a liar.

He uses language that is intentionally deceptive. He's lying to the American people.

I am outraged at the tyrannical advances of Obama and the Democrats.
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