Obamacare’s four biggest lies

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Obama’s famous vow — “If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan. Period.” — isn’t the only broken promise of Obamacare.



Now that the Affordable Care Act has actually been in effect for a week, Americans are discovering more pitfalls.


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.”




http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/4-biggest-lies-about-obamacare/
 
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.


http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/4-biggest-lies-about-obamacare/
 
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 underinsured and face extremely high out-of-pocket costs,” she said. “While the subsidies help, there still may be access problems for some populations.”



http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/4-biggest-lies-about-obamacare/
 
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: people with access to Medicaid went to the ER 40 percent more than those without insurance.




http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/4-biggest-lies-about-obamacare/
 
Lie #4: More Americans will be insured.


Supposedly 2.8 million Americans have signed up for new health-care plans.


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.




http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/4-biggest-lies-about-obamacare/
 
Wow. It's like somebody read one of my posts about it before it passed, then wrote it again except pointing out that it currently is doing what I said it would do.

Stunning shocker. I predicted the sticker shock, that the high deductibles would cause people to still go into bankruptcy, and that people would lose their coverage (which prediction Nigel, at the time he was Nigel, refuted with the "keep your insurance 'grandfathered'" claim), many of which couldn't afford to buy the new coverage and would wind up with nothing but a tax bill. I also noted that people with coverage weren't afraid to go to an ER, but that one nobody listened to...

Still it sounds eerily like one of my posts from before the ACA passed.
 
I guess we should just believe unreservedly anything the NY Post prints because... why?

"Perhaps the most serious allegation against the Post is that it is willing to contort its news coverage to suit Murdoch's business needs, in particular that the paper has avoided reporting anything that is unflattering to the government of the People's Republic of China, where Murdoch has invested heavily in satellite television.[SUP][32][/SUP]

Critics say that the Post allows its editorial positions to shape its story selection and news coverage. Post executive editor Steven D. Cuozzo has responded that the Post "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda."

"According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the Post was rated the least-credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible).[SUP][33][/SUP]
 
Your attack on the source is a little light on relevant factual evidence, Christiekins...


Which of the reported lies are you prepared to defend?
 
Big Money said:
Your attack on the source is a little light on relevant factual evidence, Christiekins...


Which of the reported lies are you prepared to defend?
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I already said before that I'm not going to pass judgment this early in the game. Open enrollment runs till March 31, 2014.
 
More than half of those signing up for private health plans on new insurance exchanges are 45 or older.


Attention is now shifting to the demographics of the new enrollees, which is likely to determine the long-term impact of the law.


At the heart of the health overhaul law is a change in the way insurance is priced. Consumers no longer pay premiums based on their health risks, and health plans are limited in how much they can vary prices based on age.


To keep prices in check in the new market, carriers say they need strong enrollment from younger people who are likely to be healthier, to balance out the bills that could be racked up by sicker and older people.


If that doesn't happen, prices will likely spike sharply in subsequent years, actuaries say.


Across the country, some 33% of the nearly 2.2 million people who signed up were between the ages of 55 and 64, and an additional 22% were between 45 and 54, according to nationwide data.



http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...0001424052702304049704579318930612496594.html
 
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