Don’t ask this president, because Obama-don’t-care.
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But the administration’s lies don’t end there. Obama had been claiming till as recently as last year that his law would force no one to give up coverage: “If you like your plan, you can keep it.”
But the administration’s internal communications show that it knew back in 2010 that 12 to 93 million policy holders might well lose their coverage.
That’s when Sebelius issued regulations grandfathering policies so long as they didn’t change. If insurers so much as inflation-adjusted premiums, they lost their protected status, becoming subject to Obamacare’s mandates requiring them to cover everything from maternity services for elderly couples to drug rehab for teetotalers.
I don’t believe this is true. My policy is grandfathered and I can tell you the premiums went up. A lot.
All of this prompted even the Washington Post’s “fact” checkers this week to give Obama “Four Pinocchios.”
The whole point of Obamacare — aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — was to protect patients from greedy insurers who lure them when they are healthy only to use some arcane fine print to jack prices or dump them when they fall sick.
But the administration has engaged in similar behavior, showing that the profit motive is not the only corrupter in human affairs. Partisanship, ideology and — above all — a president’s need to leave a legacy are even more so.
When companies put profits ahead of people, the government can go after them for fraud and falsehood. But what should people do when the government puts politics ahead of people?
Don’t ask this president, because Obama-don’t-care.
Just to remind you about keeping your plan…
