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October 1, 2010

The truth about Obama's lie that 'you can keep your current health coverage'

As Andrew Cline noted yesterday at The American Spectator, there's a reason President Obama tries so hard to convince Americans not to watch Fox News. He keeps shamelessly lying about easily verifiable facts and knows that the left-leaning media outlets won't call him on it (especially MSNBC which he specifically referred to as "invaluable"), so he foolishly believes if he can only convince people not to watch FOX, he'll be OK. Unfortunately for the president, the American people simply have to look around them to see that he isn't being honest with them (and that there's something called an Internet that, for now at least, is out of the hands of government control).

Cline writes:

Campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, the President repeated his biggest health care reform whopper: You can keep your current health insurance. Here is what he said:

"There's nothing in the bill that says you have to change the health insurance you've got right now. If you were already getting health insurance on your job, then that doesn't change."

Yet hours before he uttered that line, the Boston Globe reported that Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was canceling its Medicare Advantage coverage specifically because of new regulations imposed by Obama's health care law.

The decision "was prompted by a freeze in federal reimbursements and a new requirement that insurers offering the kind of product sold by Harvard Pilgrim -- a Medicare Advantage private fee for service plan -- form a contracted network of doctors who agree to participate for a negotiated amount of money. Under current rules, patients can seek care from any doctor," the Globe reported.

Note: even if Harvard Pilgrim had kept its Medicare Advantage plan, the law would have required it to offer the service through doctors who agree "to participate for a negotiated amount of money." That means that, contrary to Obama's claim that you can keep your current doctor as well as your current insurance, the law requires Medicare Advantage providers to create HMO-style physician networks, in which your doctor might or might not agree to participate.

For New Englanders, Harvard Pilgrim's decision is pretty big news. That company's Medicare Advantage plan covered 22,000 people. Every one of them will have to switch insurers, and possibly doctors, because of Obamacare. For everyone else, it is a warning of things to come.

Unfortunately for America, Obama's lie about Americans being able to keep their insurance isn't the only lie about Obamacare, there's many others that are even more disturbing. And besides the disturbing fact that our president and his administration feels the need to lie to us about Obamacare (perhaps better called TonySopranoCare), it's a sign of something even more sinister afoot.

Posted by Richard at October 1, 2010 8:40 AM

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