Examples of Obama's Claims that Half of Americans will Lose Health Ins
A staggering new report indicates that under the status quo, around half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point in the next ten years.
Thankfully one of these plans below by the Governor of Illinois never went through, however, this is just an example of what President Obama and the Democratic Party are saying to the American people about how easily it could be you or I that loses our health care or the cost of our plans could go so high that we find ourselves unable to afford insurance.
Retirees will have to start paying Dental premiums:
Aug 25, 2009: About 76,000 retirees from state government jobs don't have to pay premiums for the dental insurance they have. But Quinn wants them to pay the same amount as current state workers.
State Employees Could See 245% Increase in Monthly Insurance Costs
April 21, 2009: The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, which produces reports for the General Assembly, is projecting that a state employee who participates in the state's preferred provider health insurance program would see a 245 percent increase in their monthly insurance costs.
Currently, a state worker in that health plan pays about $89 per month. That amount would jump to $309 per month on July 1 if the governor's budget proposal is adopted without changes, the report notes.
The governor's proposal would hit certain retirees even harder.For a retiree who is not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare, premiums would rise from $12.98 per month to an average of about $582 per month.
Many of the retirees who are not old enough to qualify for Medicare include prison guards, state troopers and state transportation workers.
A spokesman for the state's largest employee union called the increases "unimaginable."
If you think your insurance is always going to 'be there' think again. It may be offered, but unless you are very wealthy, you may end up not being able to afford it someday. We need to stop the cost of health care from going sky high.
All just scare tactics. Nobody is suggesting that we keep the "status quo". So Obama throwing around stats and saying, "well if we do nothing, then we'll all be screwed. Therefore we must adopt my plan that overhauls the entire system".
Of course, at the same time that he says the government program of Medicare is so screwed up, he actually wants to add another government run program - the "public option".
I guess all those cost savings that for decades Congress has been talking about cutting but haven't been able to, well...this time will be different. Ha ha ha.
Let's scrap the public option and instead open up the healthcare system to inter-state competition. That plus mandate insurance companies that they cannot deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. And expand Medicaid to cover more of the poor.
Very simple and I'm sure it will cost less than Obama's $900 billion price-tag.
September 12, 2009 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink