I am so glad we have a president that is so wise as to make sure the insurance companies will not cancel my policy when I get sick, exclude any pre-exisiting conditions I have or put limits on the amount of coverage they will pay out. And he is going to do this in a way to "bend the cost curve down"!
Instead he has created an environment that is going to force the insurance companies to pull out of the business and drive employers to drop their health care options to retirees and radically raise costs to employees. And eventually you are going to be stuck with a government run, single payer health care system that will provide lousy service, decreased benefits for care, dump more people into Medicaid, pass more of the expenses on to the states and will eventually break the bank of this country. And the only thing that is going to be bent down is you and me!
Sorry, no thanks - I've been there, done that and didn't even get a t-shirt when my wife was insured under the state's high risk pool. High premiums - three times higher than mine, high deductibles - twice as high as mine, and coverage for a "medically necessary" procedure arbitrarily declined with no explanation. So this is not just some conservative whack-o parroting talk radio - this is out of personal experience. You don't want the fertilizer Obama is peddalin' THIS IS BAD FOR THE COUNTRY!
(“Caterpillar Raising Health Care Premiums,” Peoria Journal Star, 10/28/10) (“Citing Health Care Law, Boeing Pares Employee Plan,” The Associated Press, 10/18/10)
(“Citing Health Overhaul, AARP Hikes Employee Costs,” The Associated Press, 11/4/10) - And these were the guys telling the seniors how great this was going to be!
The above links are not from conservative, anti-Obama web sites - anything but! Check out the New York Times, Boston Globe and the AP. The Wall Street Journal is in there as well for a little balance.
Pass this on - The Republicans are not doing a good enough job in getting the word out just how screwed everyone is going to be once this thing kicks in.
