How Obama said what he said with a straight face is now becoming more and more unbelievable. The level of deceit that the administration engaged in while selling, or rather conning, the American people about this program is mind numbing. As we have said over and over again it is way more than problems with the website that are going to get the public riled up. The Democrats are going to be in real trouble in 2014. They can't spin this by saying "Oh sure the cost went up, but they have a much better plan," That's not what Obama said, and so far his ludicrous $2,500 per family saving is nowhere to be found. This is really atrocious, and frankly the American people deserve better.Remember, these buffoons have basically taken over 18% of the United States economy.
For consumers whose health premiums will go up under new law, sticker shock leads to anger
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Deborah Persico was recently informed that her health
insurance plan was being canceled. She learned that a similar plan will
cost her much more.
The growing backlash involves people whose plans are being discontinued because the policies don’t meet the law’s more-stringent standards. They’re finding that many alternative policies come with higher premiums and deductibles.
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A look at the consumer's route through the HealthCare.gov Web site and the potential failure points.
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That means she could end up paying at least $5,000 more a year than she does now. “That’s just not fair,” said Persico, who represents indigent criminal defendants. “This is ridiculous.”
If the poor, sick and uninsured are the winners under the Affordable Care Act, the losers appear to include some relatively healthy middle-income small-business owners, consultants, lawyers and other self-employed workers who buy their own insurance. Many make too much to qualify for new federal subsidies provided by the law but not enough to absorb the rising costs without hardship. Some are too old to go without insurance because they have children or have minor health issues, but they are too young for Medicare.
Others are upset because they don’t want coverage for services they’ll never need or their doctors don’t participate in any of their new insurance options.
“There are definitely winners and losers,” said Sabrina Corlette, a senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “The problem is that even if the majority are winners . . . they’re not the ones writing to their congressmen.”
The administration says that about 12 million Americans, or 5 percent of the population, buy individual polices — they don’t get coverage through their employers or programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Millions of them will be required to get new policies, but many will qualify for federal aid to pay for the premiums. Thus, they will end up with better coverage at lower costs, officials say. If they are sick, they won’t be denied coverage or charged more.
But conveying such information is difficult because of the “calamitous” launch of HealthCare.gov, former White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He said that “many of the people who have to transition are going to get better insurance for less money, but they just can’t tell that right now because they can’t get on the Web site.”
Republicans have showed little sympathy. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, appearing on the same program, attacked Obama for his often-repeated pledge that people would be able to keep their health plans if they liked them. Romney said that Obama has engaged in “fundamental dishonesty” that has “undermined the foundation of his second term.”
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