Wednesday, March 01, 2017

4 Broken Obamacare Promises That Town Hall Protesters Should Remember

From The Daily Signal.com (Feb. 15):

While the House and Senate plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, members of Congress are hosting town hall meetings with their constituents and have been greeted by hostile crowds.

These folks seem to have amnesia about Obamacare’s glaring failures.

Here’s a quick refresher on Obamacare’s top four broken promises.

  1. Costs are exploding. The typical family today pays about 35 percent of their income for health care.
  2. Competition and choice are declining. On Tuesday, news broke that Humana will be leaving the Obamacare exchange markets next year. This was just the latest in a growing list of insurers who are jumping ship from this massive public policy failure.
  3. Forget about keeping your plan. In 2014, the first year that Obamacare was fully implemented, the Associated Press reported that there were at least 4.7 million canceled policies across 30 states. The law’s insurance rules and mandates forced many insurers to cancel plans that people liked and wanted.
  4. No, you can’t necessarily keep your doctor.

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Let’s hope Congress can for once and for all repeal and replace the nightmare called Obamacare or if you prefer the Unaffordable No-Care Act.

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