New Obama plan: If you like your plan you can keep it…until after next year’s elections



Today, President Obama caved to the mounting pressure over his oft-repeated lie, “If you like your plan you can keep it.” He announced that insurers can keep the plans they are now being forced to cancel…until after next year’s elections.
from AP:
Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced changes to his health care law that would give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled.
The administrative changes are good for just one year, though senior administration officials said they could be extended if problems with the law persist. Obama announced the changes at the White House.
Obama has been under enormous pressure from congressional Democrats to give ground on the cancellation issue under the health care overhaul, a program likely to be at the center of next year’s midterm elections for control of the House and Senate.
It’s unclear what the impact of Thursday’s changes will be for the millions of people who have already had their plans canceled. While officials said insurance companies will now be able to offer those people the option to renew their old plans, companies are not required to take that step.
Insurance companies will be required to inform consumers who want to keep canceled plans about the protections that are not included under those plans.


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This is a blatantly political move that will only hurt Obama in the long run. At the end of next year, both the individual mandate and the employer mandate will hit simultaneously and tens of millions will likely see their insurance plans dropped.
Today’s announcement changes nothing about Obama’s lies and broken promises. It only delays the inevitable long enough for a few of his cronies in Congress to get re-elected.


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