When the truth began to dawn on Americans that president Obama lied when he famously promised that Obamacare would let us all keep our plans and our doctors if we liked them, Obama and the Obamacrats began a parade of explanations, clarifications and excuses to try to deflect the resulting anger and upset. Remember Obama telling us that we could keep our plan really meant that we could keep our plan so long as it was not substandard and had not changed in any regard for the last four years? That was the only major attempt by the president to come forward with a "clarification". It was greeted with such disdain, even by the mainstream media, that Obama quickly retreated. Since then, Obama has left it to others to try to explain away his false statements.
Today, we got perhaps the most offensive attempt to date in this regard. Zeke Emmanuel who is the brother of Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel and who is also one of the architects of Obamacare made this latest and most offensive attempt. He was asked on one of the Sunday talk shows about Obama's statement that Americans could keep their doctors under Obamacare if they liked them. Emmanuel's response was that what Obama had said was true, but it would just cost more to keep those favorite doctors. How outrageous! Think about the true meaning of what he said. Let's use New York state as an example because I am quite familiar with the plans in that state. A majority of the doctors in New York are not in the network for most plans offered on the exchanges. If you have a favorite doctor, that means that the odds are at best 50-50 that he or she is covered by a policy that you would get on the exchange. In New York, doctors out of network are not covered at all by the policies sold on the exchange. So what Emmanuel is saying is that under Obamacare you can keep your doctor, but you just cannot get insurance coverage for using that doctor.
Imagine that! The whole point of Obamacare is to get people medical insurance (at least that was what they told us -- maybe that was a lie too). The architect of the plan tells us that we can keep our doctors, but we just cannot get any insurance coverage if we do. Unbelievable! You would think that he would be ashamed to say this in public.
Today, we got perhaps the most offensive attempt to date in this regard. Zeke Emmanuel who is the brother of Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel and who is also one of the architects of Obamacare made this latest and most offensive attempt. He was asked on one of the Sunday talk shows about Obama's statement that Americans could keep their doctors under Obamacare if they liked them. Emmanuel's response was that what Obama had said was true, but it would just cost more to keep those favorite doctors. How outrageous! Think about the true meaning of what he said. Let's use New York state as an example because I am quite familiar with the plans in that state. A majority of the doctors in New York are not in the network for most plans offered on the exchanges. If you have a favorite doctor, that means that the odds are at best 50-50 that he or she is covered by a policy that you would get on the exchange. In New York, doctors out of network are not covered at all by the policies sold on the exchange. So what Emmanuel is saying is that under Obamacare you can keep your doctor, but you just cannot get insurance coverage for using that doctor.
Imagine that! The whole point of Obamacare is to get people medical insurance (at least that was what they told us -- maybe that was a lie too). The architect of the plan tells us that we can keep our doctors, but we just cannot get any insurance coverage if we do. Unbelievable! You would think that he would be ashamed to say this in public.
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