Will the Senate Censure the Obama Administration Over ObamaCare Rules?
Sen. Michael Enzi’s resolution (S.J.Res. 39) disapproving of the Administration’s rules on grandfathered plans will be debated tomorrow morning. The complaint is that the administration is implementing rules that will cause almost all plans to eventually lose their grandfathered status and be subjected to the cost-increasing mandates of the new health care overhaul bill. In support, backers have identified 47 separate Obama quotations promising voters that if they like the plan they are in they can keep it.
The list of quotations is very impressive. It’s like Bush 41 saying “read my lips.”
Obama acts like he is completely disconnected. There seems to be no connection between his rhetoric and the reality.
I do not believe any of the primary architects of the PPACA wanted grandfathered plans to exist beyond the first decade. Otherwise, they would have allowed a wider array of options for new plan design.
I agree with Neil. That’s an impressive list of quotations.
At some point, it becomes a big joke.
Did anybody ever hear the “you can keep your plan,” and think, “Great! I can keep my plan”?
In the era of the big lie the one that you can keep your plan if you like it. The Democratic Congress and the President have intended the opposite all along. They seek to force Americans to purchase health insurance that meets their criteria and the public will have fewer and fewer choices. This should have been obvious all along but you can fool most of the people for a short time. The question now is can they fool the voters. I think that the answer will become clear in November.
Actually, the really big lie is believing you ever kept your coverage. Every year HR departments across the country change policies Unless you’re protected by a collective bargaining agreement or medicare, you never know from one year to the next how your coverage will change.
artk, I trust my employer a lot more than I trust the government.