HHS admits Obamacare will cost more with tax payer dollars

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Another lie.  Subsidies are a fancy term for tax dollars.  I am not fooled.  So Obamacare is not going to be affordable.    Is anyone surprised?  I'm not.

The Obama administration has directly conceded for the first time that 'in many cases,' health insurance plans offered through government exchanges are more expensive than plans consumers bought before the Affordable Care Act became law – even when government subsidies are figured in.

In a letter to state insurance commissioners, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight director Gary Cohen wrote on Thursday that one reason for the new Obamacare measures the president announced Thursday is that millions of consumers receiving cancellation letters from their insurers are learning the Affordable Care Act options are in fact less affordable.

'Although affected individuals and small businesses may access quality health insurance coverage through the new Health Insurance Marketplaces,' Cohen wrote, 'in many cases with federal subsidies, some of them are finding that such coverage would be more expensive than their current coverage, and thus they may [be] dissuaded from immediately transitioning to such coverage.'

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[Evil Yoda]

Perhaps it should be called the Unaffordable Care Act!

[Deleted]

Evil Yoda - I concur!

[rocketwolf]

socialism is never cheaper

[rocketwolf]

His written statement contradicts President Obama's campaign promises that the Affordable Care Act would lower costs for Americans.

In October of that year he said during a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio that 'we are going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2,500. We will not wait 20 years from now to do it, or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president.'

[Evil Yoda]

He's hardly the first president to lie about a campaign promise. Indeed, you can always tell when a politician is lying - his lips are moving. It's hardwired into their DNA, I guess - the same gene that makes you like lording it over others also makes your deceitful.

But he is the first president in my lifetime who has screwed up on such an epic scale. George W. Bush started the ball rolling on corroding basic civil rights, but Obama is going to ruin the economy.

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Evil Yoda I think he's already has done that.

[leon]

I hope ACA is repealed.

[leon]

I hope ACA is repealed.

[Evil Yoda]

Nov 15, 2013 9:40:41 GMT -5 leon said:

I hope ACA is repealed.

I would like to see that happen, as well. But I doubt it will. It certainly can't happen before 2014, and then only if the Republicans manage a veto-proof majority. I expect the legislature will shed Democrats like mangy dog sheds fur, but will the Pubs get a veto-proof majority in both houses? Still too early to say.

[douger]

Nov 15, 2013 15:53:25 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Nov 15, 2013 9:40:41 GMT -5 leon said:

I hope ACA is repealed.

I would like to see that happen, as well. But I doubt it will. It certainly can't happen before 2014, and then only if the Republicans manage a veto-proof majority. I expect the legislature will shed Democrats like mangy dog sheds fur, but will the Pubs get a veto-proof majority in both houses? Still too early to say.

Unless Obamacare blows up even worse than even I expect, too many incumbent Dems in the Senate are in "safe" seats.

[Evil Yoda]

Nov 15, 2013 17:14:07 GMT -5 douger said:

Unless Obamacare blows up even worse than even I expect, too many incumbent Dems in the Senate are in "safe" seats.

Some Republicans probably thought they were in safe seats in 2006, too.

[redleg]

Nov 15, 2013 17:14:07 GMT -5 douger said:

Nov 15, 2013 15:53:25 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

I would like to see that happen, as well. But I doubt it will. It certainly can't happen before 2014, and then only if the Republicans manage a veto-proof majority. I expect the legislature will shed Democrats like mangy dog sheds fur, but will the Pubs get a veto-proof majority in both houses? Still too early to say.

Unless Obamacare blows up even worse than even I expect, too many incumbent Dems in the Senate are in "safe" seats.

Maybe, unless they don't learn the lesson and stop blindly pursuing a Marxist agenda.