OBAMA LIED ABOUT OBAMACARE. ) Lied about letting people keep their health insurance Before Obamacare was passed, Obama said: “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people… If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” Also before Obamacare was passed, Obama said: “Here is a guarantee that I’ve made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance.” However, after Obamacare was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said that the law would cause seven million people to lose their employer provided insurance. After Obamacare was passed, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East announced that it would drop health insurance for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants. Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension funds for 1199SEIU stated “… new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26… meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.” Also, after Obamacare was passed, the Franciscan University of Steubenvilledropped its coverage in response to the law. Universal Orlando dropped its coverage for part time employees in response to Obamacare. In addition, after Obamacare was passed, Forbes reported “The House Ways and Means Committee has released a new report that sheds light onto how Obamacare incentivizes companies to dump their workers onto the new law’s subsidized exchanges.” Also after Obamacare was passed, MSN reported “The Affordable Care Act mandate most commonly known as Obamacare has some tight stipulations that, CNN says, are forcing health care companies to rip up most of their current plans and draft new ones that comply. According to a University of Chicago study, just about half of the individual health care plans currently on the market won’t cut it once key provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in next year.” Furthermore, it was reported that Obamacare would cause 58,000 Aetna and UnitedHealth Group customers in California to lose their insurance. In response to Obamacare, some employers have dropped coverage for their employees’ spouses. The chain of Wegmans supermarkets cancelled the policies of its part time employees in response to Obamacare. In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare “will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits… these restrictions will make non-profit plans like ours unsustainable… we can no longer stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans” 24) Lied about the cost of Obamacare Before Obamacare was passed, Obama promised “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits –either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period. And to prove that I’m serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don’t materialize.” However, after Obama signed it, the Washington Post reported that it would add more than $340 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade. In March 2012, the Congressional Budget Office said that over the next decade, Obamacare would cost twice as much as what Obama had promised. In May 2013, it was reported that Obamacare’s program for high risk patients was more expensive than what Obama had promised.
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