Speaking out on Obamacare | Letter
Published 12:16 pm Friday, November 1, 2013
On Monday, we learned what many Americans have believed for three years since Obamacare was forced into law by Democrats. We learned that President Obama has LIED to the faces of every American about their ability to keep their doctor and their insurance.
Of all places, Obama-friendly NBC reported that the administration has known for three years that as many as 85 percent of individually insured Americans will lose their plans and their doctors. Yes, while Obama has been on his perpetual campaign circuit saying otherwise, the Department of Health and Human Services illegally changed the Affordable Care Act to remove the grandfathering of previously provided health care plans, and the White House knew it three years ago.
No, you will NOT be able to keep your doctor. No, you will NOT be able to keep your insurance plan. Yes, Barack Obama has been LYING to you for three years.
It’s bad enough that Obama has unconstitutionally changed the law unilaterally more than a dozen times. He’s granted more than 2,500 waivers to friends and cronies to keep them quiet during the ridiculous implementation window. He’s blown a billion dollars on a website that doesn’t work. And yes, he ordered the changes in the website that require subscribers to provide every bit of their personal information BEFORE they can even see plan options and flee in sticker shock. Yes, the administration knew that Medicaid enrollments and the subsequent government dependency would result. But this latest revelation is over the top.
From the first days of his path to Single Payer government run health care, otherwise known as Socialized Medicine, he has LIED to more than 300 million Americans about their ability to retain their current plans. He’s LIED about your ability to keep your doctor if you like him or her. He LIED to sell you his Marxist vision for health care in the hopes you’d go along because you felt safe it wouldn’t impact you.
Today we’ve learned that as many as 16 million of the 19 million privately insured Americans in the United States are going to lose their plans and their doctors. As employers drop employer-provided care, and we’re seeing that happening already, that number is going to explode if Obamacare is not repealed.
So what are you going to do to stop it? What are you going to do to save your own life from the consequences of rationing and bureaucratic death panels operating without any competition?
This is not politics. Yes, your life is at stake.
Michael Costello, Redmond
