Obamacare: The Lie of the Land!

I don’t know if you’re paying attention here, but if you ask any Progressive the election is all about Obamacare, and when you ask any Democrats about the economy, the multiple caravans attempting to skip Mexico and the United Nations offer of asylum to come to America, they immediately switch the topic to Obamacare, their narrative flavor of the week. What’s really interesting is that if you try to go on line to do the research on any topic involving Obamacare you get barraged by stories not mentioning the lies behind Obamacare and the Dems, but the pretty much same stories no matter what search parameters that you’ve been able to find time and time again, but for some reason with 4 days to go before the Midterms, you can no longer find them!

They want you to believe that the GOP will not honor pre-existing conditions in the same way Obama promised the American people that if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, and if you liked your plan you could keep your plan! I guess when it comes to Dems who believe the ‘Deep State’s’ continued lies decided to remain as those ‘Useful Idiots’ who have no interest in joining the ranks of Independents along with Republican and Democrat moderates a.k.a. ‘The Silent Majority!’

President Trump is the byproduct of the ineptitude of the feckless Congress who prior to the 2016 elections was given, by the American people, a 12.8% approval rating, which by the way will continue the obstruction and resisting coming from the Progressive Branch of the Democratic Party with the help of the RINO’s of the Republican Party that are beginning to be exposed by their lack of interest in President Trump’s agenda, and like speaker Paul Ryan who is stepping down from being the speaker and for now just hanging around! Ryan reason for staying out of the limelight is because of his over the top pro-open border and pro-illegal immigration positions!

President Trump is ‘not’ on the ballot this time around but the future of America is, and if you can honestly answer the following 3 questions which have been asked and answered numerous times with overwhelming affirmative responses to over 80% agreeing! What you can expect from the ‘Deep State’ is Obama’s patented Voter Fraud version 4 that’s being brought to you by George Soros’s voting machines!

Those 3 questions have been used time and time again, and they go like this:

Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?

Are with happy with the economy and the direction of the country?

Are you confident in the direction of this President’s foreign policies and being back on the world stage in a leadership role after the past Administration’s 8 years of taking a back seat to other nations?

Forget about being a Democrat, Republican, or Independent because this is not what this election is about, and if you answered yes to all 3, or even just 2 of the question, you know that making America First and Great Again is the only way our future will be based on our founders like it’s been for the last 247 years, but not determined by the illegal voters who’ve jumped the line while being encouraged to vote illegally!

It’s time for all Americans to come together and “error on the side of caution”, and if things change in the next 2 years that makes you not  happy with, then dump Trump, but if remember you gave Obama 8 years to attempt to destroy America from within, then just 2 more years of President Trump shouldn’t be that much of a stretch when you know Democrats are already planning to raise taxes, reestablish the same regulations that forced our America made companies out of America to add to other countries GDP and jobs numbers while doing the complete opposite for America and its people!

Democrats will block America’s economy from further being the best economy in history, will triple down on the Russia collusion investigation while still hiding and blocking the documents that have been subpoenaed, but still not handed over to the Congressional oversight committee! All Americans should be able to see just how deep the corruption and the collusion by the upper echelons of the Obama ‘Deep State,’ Administration was, and every American should be asking themselves, now knowing the depth of the Obama inspired, Soros assisted, voter fraud that delivered Obama his second term! 

Well, back to the task at hand, and that’s about how Progressives keep trying to paint a picture of the GOP through fabricated ‘Fake News’ about how preexisting conditions aren’t part of the GOP platform for Americans looking for healthcare insurance is not only an outright lie, but an insult to the common sense of the American people who can actually see right through the Progressive’s charade of Socialism!  

“The Democratic super PAC allied with Senator Chuck Schumer is behind many ads, including one targeting Republican Josh Hawley, who is challenging Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, in a tight race. The ad says if Hawley is elected, millions of Missourians could lose their protections.”

In another ad, McCaskill tells the camera “Two years ago, I beat breast cancer,” and she says her opponent would do away with protections for pre-existing conditions like cancer. These ads are blatantly untrue. Hawley’s on the record insisting health reform legislation must include these protections.

So is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who has called on his state lawmakers to enact protections, but never mind the truth! The Democratic Governors Association is funding an ad with a breast cancer patient who says she won’t be able to afford life-saving treatments if Walker is re-elected.

These scare tactics are likely to work. A whopping 81 percent of voters, including 80 percent of Republicans, support these protections, polls show. Unfortunately, Republican pols failed miserably last year to explain how their Obamacare repeal bill safeguarded people with pre-existing conditions. That failure opened the door for Democrats to vilify them this election season as enemies of people with health problems.

President Donald Trump could stop the shenanigans distorting this election and also calm the anxieties of Americans worried about their health. What’s needed is a federal fallback insurance plan, aggressively promoted by the president, that will cover anyone turned down by an insurer. Period.

Obamacare isn’t the only way to protect people with pre-existing conditions. It’s just the unfairest way.

Obamacare compels insurers to charge the healthy and the sick the same price. That’s the major reason Obamacare premiums for 2019 are triple what they were in 2013.

A federal fallback insurance fund will provide a rock-solid guarantee for chronically ill people, and at the same time allow premiums to return to sane levels for healthy buyers. It will pay the medical bills of people with pre-existing conditions out of general revenues — not abandoning them but lifting the burden off premium payers in the tiny individual market and spreading it more broadly.

It’s no mystery how to do it. In 2010, a temporary federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan was established for people turned down by insurers, as a stopgap until the Obamacare exchanges opened.

What will a permanent fund cost? Based on the $32,000 spent per patient in the temporary fund, plus an adjustment for inflation, and predicting 400,000 to 500,000 enrollees at any one time, it’s likely to cost taxpayers roughly $20 billion a year. That’s money well spent helping the sick. And it’s way less than half the current cost of subsidizing healthy people to buy overpriced Obamacare plans.

Right now, the middle class, who are ineligible for a subsidy, are getting priced out of Obamacare. They’re hoping to enroll in so-called short-term plans that offer fewer benefits (no inpatient mental health care for example) and low prices based on a relatively healthy buyer’s low medical need. The Trump administration recently relaxed insurance regulations to help sticker-shocked consumers buy these plans.

Yet last Friday, seven advocacy groups, such as the American Psychiatric Association, sued to stop these plans in an effort to slam closed this escape hatch from Obamacare. The litigants said allowing the short-term plans would “draw low-risk people out of” Obamacare. That’s the point. Consumers want choices and lower premiums.

But as the polls show, they also want protections for people with pre-existing conditions. A federal insurance fallback program will accomplish that. Now is that time to get it done and put a stop to the demagoguery about pre-existing conditions. Let voters choose based on real issues, not a phony one.

By Betsy McCaughey

September 19, 2018

For all of you that might have forgotten Pelosi’s words of wisdom, let me refresh you memory, and if you want to put Pelosi back in charge of the House, which I believe Democrats won’t let happen to their Party after an 8 year sabbatical, then I’ll end this tirade with Pelosi’s  “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it!”

The 4 lies about Obamacare, that no matter what these Progressive’s say, still apply, and are as follows:

Lie #1:

“Affordable” Care.

Even the president’s ideological allies — like Michael Moore — acknowledge that the Affordable Care Act is far from inexpensive for most Americans and that it “risks being a cruel joke.”

For average Americans, the results are prohibitively expensive. “The cheapest plan available to a 60-year-old couple making $65,000 a year in Hartford, Conn., will cost $11,800 in annual premiums,” according to Moore’s math, as published in a New York Times editorial. “If both become seriously ill, they might have to pay almost $25,000 in a single year.”

The National Federation of Independent Businesses, an organization that represents nearly 11,000 entrepreneurs in New York state alone, said it has yet to find a single member whose health-care costs are going down under Obamacare. Instead, an “overwhelming majority” of businesses have reported increases in their insurance premiums, said Mike Durant, the NFIB’s New York director.

Lie #2:

It will prevent people from going into debt.

Patients with cancer and conditions such as multiple sclerosis or Crohn’s disease can now get insurance and financial but if annual out-of-pocket costs run much higher than expected, they might have to go into debt.

“There are certainly challenges for cancer patients,” said Brian Rosen, a senior vice president of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. These gaps “need to be addressed in order to fulfill the intention of the Affordable Care Act.”

Caroline Pearson, who tracks the health-care overhaul for the consulting firm Avalere Health, put it in even starker terms.

“Chronically ill people are likely to be under insured and face extremely high out-of-pocket costs,” she said. “While the subsidies help, there still may be access problems for some populations.”

Lie #3:

Obamacare will lower costs overall.

The idea that people with medical insurance go to the emergency room less, and thus, help to reduce the overall cost of health care, isn’t necessarily true, as a study of Oregon Medicaid recipients has shown.

Researchers compared Medicaid recipients with those with no health insurance and found the following: That people with access to Medicaid went to the ER 40 percent more than those without insurance.

Lie #4:

More Americans will be insured.

Approximately 2.8 million Americans have signed up for new health-care plans since the Affordable Care Act went into effect on Jan. 1. That’s less than the 3.3 million the federal government predicted would sign up and is also dwarfed by the 4.7 million whose insurance policies have been cancelled as a result of the overhaul.