Democrats want to protect existing healthcare, BUT KNEW IN 2010 THIS WOULD HAPPEN!

thisnumbersdisconnected · Nov 2, 2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot...e-to-keep-their-health-plans-under-obamacare/
This is an outstanding exposure of the Democrats' hypocrisy, and it repeats what Megyn Kelly revealed last night on The Kelly File on FNC, that Democrats 1) knew three years ago that the ACA would not "let you keep your insurance," 2) voted against efforts to block the portion of the bill that would make people lose their insurance, and 3) now hypocritically claim "we are shocked" the ACA takes away people's preferred healthcare plans.

On Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testified before Congress about the continuing issues with the rollout of Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges. “Hold me accountable for the debacle,” said Sebelius. “I’m responsible.” I attended the hearing, and I was struck by the scope, scale, and depth of the health law’s problems, problems that far exceed any one political appointee. But Obamacare’s disruption of the existing health insurance market—a disruption codified in law, and known to the administration—is only just beginning. And it’s far broader than recent media coverage has implied.
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On Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney attempted to minimize the disruption issue, arguing that it only affected people who buy insurance on their own ... But Carney’s dismissal of the media’s concerns was wrong, on several fronts. Contrary to the reporting of NBC, the administration’s commentary in the Federal Register did not only refer to the individual market, but also the market for employer-sponsored health insurance ... “The Departments’ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013,” wrote the administration on page 34,552 of the Register. All in all, more than half of employer-sponsored plans will lose their “grandfather status” and become illegal. According to the Congressional Budget Office, 156 million Americans—more than half the population—was covered by employer-sponsored insurance in 2013.

Another 25 million people, according to the CBO, have “nongroup and other” forms of insurance; that is to say, they participate in the market for individually-purchased insurance. In this market, the administration projected that “40 to 67 percent” of individually-purchased plans would lose their Obamacare-sanctioned “grandfather status” and become illegal, solely due to the fact that there is a high turnover of participants and insurance arrangements in this market.
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That is -- hold on to your seats -- 93 million insured that, on January 1, 2015, will lose their insurance if this law isn't gutted, repealed or rendered unconstitutional. But believe it or not -- It gets worse!!

Some Senate Democrats are jumping on the grandfathering bandwagon. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), locked in a competitive reelection race against Rep. Bill Cassidy (R., La.), now claims that she was unaware that Obamacare would disrupt existing insurance arrangements. “It was our understanding when we voted for that bill that people when they have insurance could keep with what they had. So I’m going to be working on that fix,” she said on Wednesday.

But that’s not accurate. It was well known, as far back as 2009, that millions of Americans would lose their existing coverage under the Obamacare bill. Landrieu still voted for it. In September of 2010, Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) introduced legislation that would protect small businesses from losing their health plans’ grandfathered status under Obamacare. Landrieu voted against the bill, on a party-line vote. [Emphasis added]
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The Democrats engaged in subterfuge on an unprecedented scale, and are now trying to act at though, "Hey, it's news to us, too." We can't let them get away with it. Remember the names of these deceptive tyrants at the ballot box a year from this Monday, November 4.

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