Today's Obama Lie Exposed: Majority of Americans Will Lose Employer Health Plans in 3 Years
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, June 12, 2010, 1:23 PM
Do you remember when Barack Obama promised Americans that they would not lose their health insurance under Obamacare?
He lied.
A majority of Americans will lose their company sponsored health plans within 3 years.
(Investors)
Investors reported, via Doug Ross:
Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
The “midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfathered status by the end of 2013,” according to the document.
In the worst-case scenario, 69% of employers — 80% of smaller firms — would lose that status, exposing them to far more provisions under the new health law.
The 83-page document, a joint project of the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the IRS, examines the effects that ObamaCare’s regulations would have on existing, or “grandfathered,” employer-based health care plans.
Of course, the fact that Obama would mislead the American people to ram through his radical agenda should surprise no one.
UPDATE: Left Coast Rebal has a list of more broken promises on Obamacare.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 89 Comments
Ginger commented:
Every time he opens his evil mouth he LIES!
Hey the muslims DO NOT have to pay for obama care!
Ginger commented:
How much you want to bet it will be less then three years!
jonyjoe101 commented:
I think he was only talking about government employees would be able to keep there health plans.
Doe anyone really think he meant that the “little people” would actually keep there health plans? When obama is laughing, he isn’t laughing with us, he is laughing at us.
In America there are 2 classes of people the “government workers” (aka upper elite) and the civilian workers (aka taxpayer).
CommieBlaster commented:
COMMUNISTS LIE.
IT’S EXPLAINED IN THIS TRAINING VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wccIqjrGGMk
PROOF OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST:
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ISN’T IT TIME FOR A VELVET REVOLUTION:
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Dazed commented:
REPEAL IT NOW!
Waiting to Retire commented:
Just keeps gettin’ better every day, doesn’t it??
DavidD commented:
I’d like to see these effects kick in BEFORE the 2012 election and not just AFTER it. Maybe enough people will WAKE UP then, in time to keep BHO from getting a second term.
Jan S. commented:
I work for a health insurance broker who already has notices from one major carrier that said if you change your health plan, although keeping it with the same carrier, you have lost your grandfather status. (they are saying any plan changes after the signing of the bill in March 2010 will lose grandfather status).
Many carriers offer several options of the same health plan, just different coinsurance, copays, and deductibles. If you opt for the same insurance company and plan, but say, increase your deductible from $1,000 to $3,000 to save on premium —- too bad, so sad — in 2014 you will have to go to the government plan. Oh, and this company said they don’t know what the government plan is because it isnt written yet.
kate commented:
Good. Apparently this is a lesson we need to learn as a country. What we do with that information will write our collective (no pun intended) futures. Most people only learn from pain. And this is going to be really painful.
chuck in st paul commented:
Charlie Brown
Lucy
football
some assembly required
Sojourner commented:
..Any questions left as to whose a$$$es to kick?
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER: Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Health Bill Facts:
http://usataxpayer.org/view.asp?Get=headlines.asp&Raw=The%20Government%20Health%20Care%20Bill%20H.R.3200%20HcBaSP31Be8.flv&ncid=86792723
bg commented:
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Obama’s Trojan Horse
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bg commented:
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OT..
the ever growing “first they came for list”, dang, pretty soon
the list of who or what they’re not coming for will be shorter..
TRUTH IS HATE SPEECH
get ready, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, censorship,
hah, there ain’t no such thing in Obama’s mafia..
Islamists = convert or die!!
Tea Party & Iraq Soldiers = terrorists!!
Obama = shut up or i’ll shut you down!!
Hamas, Hezbollah, The Muslim Brotherhood,
CAIR, MAS, etc.. = trustworthy alliances!!
oh you know i could go on &
on, heck, who couldn’t, gah!!
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Chippy commented:
From a WoPo article today on the healthcare issue I found this.
“An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the rules are still being written, said the final version will uphold Obama’s promise, accommodating employers’ desire for flexibility while protecting consumers from runaway costs.”
I thought the bill was voted on and passed? Shows you the socialist libs are fricking crazy and MUST be voted out. The whole article can be read here. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/11/AR2010061106066.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Spec Tater commented:
I can invision his ass as history
DocScience commented:
If Obama tells you the sun is coming up tomorrow morning, take a flashlight.
Bob Davis commented:
Jim:
I know these are listed as “internal administration documents”, but do you have a link to the doc yet? Has it leaked out? Thx
Robespierres Id commented:
Worst president ever. Worst congress ever. Vote every last rigid ideologue democrat out (that means all of them).
The thugs who run the democratic party are destroying what makes America great, and enslaving us and our progeny – they need to go.
Unemployment for all democrats starting in November 2010.
xxx commented:
Odonkey is the Lie.
Sojourner commented:
Jim..
..thanks & bless again for all your work.. you & GP kicks a$$!
Chip Bennett commented:
There is definitely a valid point in here (in fact, one that I made a long time ago, based on nothing but the wording in the bill itself), but your title is a bit sensationalist. What is being lost here is grandfather status for current health insurance plans.
So, it is true: Obama lied when he said, “If you like your current plan, you can keep it.”
But, it does not mean that employers will be dropping private coverage entirely – just that their provided coverage plans will have to change. (And, inevitably, it will mean that employer-provided coverage plans will be more expensive.)
The lie is egregious enough, without sensationalizing it.
Certainly, it is possible that a “majority of Americans will lose their employer health plans” – in fact, that is the unspoken intent of ObamaCare – but I’ve seen no evidence that the mere loss of grandfather status for existing plans will be sufficient to cause a majority of employers to drop coverage entirely, much less, within 3 years.
(I’m not really pointing this matter out just to criticize, but rather to be constructive. The Left will use any means necessary, and any opportunity presented, to attack our position. Let’s not give them any ammunition – such as sensationalized headlines – to divert the debate away from the reality of the travesty that is ObamaCare.)
bg commented:
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Chip Bennett @ 7:55 pm #25
okay, but aren’t many of these employers aka: businesses more or
less being forced out of business, ergo, employee health plans??
thanks..
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squeaky commented:
i heard this much earlier from people who actually read the bill[s]. and all the people with pre-existing conditions who think this will be the answer to their prayers – not. i spent some time trying to get a point across to a blockhead who thought obama would be providng healthcare as good as what the congress has. the people at radioviceonline have had good posts in the past and actually read what the
congress couldn’t find the time to do.
Bunni commented:
What else is new?
Everytime this disgrace to the pResidency opens his crooked maw, he’s LYING.
We would all save lots of frustration and time if we
just remembered this:
obummer speaking = LIES
Chip Bennett commented:
@bg:
Forced out of business?
Perhaps, but not because of losing “grandfather” status for their current health insurance plans.
The point is: losing “grandfather” status for their current plans will only force those companies to change their plans to one that meets ObamaCare standards.
The new plans will be more expensive, and will be a burden to both employers and employees. The employers will have a choice:
a) Pass additional costs on to employees, by raising deduction rates, plan deductibles, co-pays, etc.
b) Drop coverage altogether, and pay the ObamaCare fine.
While the intended, eventual outcome is the latter choice, I’ve seen no evidence thus far that companies have indicated that they will, upon loss of “grandfather” status for their current plans, will simply forgo the option of using a more expensive plan, and drop coverage altogether.
But as for companies going out of business because of ObamaCare? Not likely.
That, of course, is why Obama is tanking the economy at the same time.
Troy commented:
Move over Millard Fillmore! We have a new leader!