Sorry for today’s coverage of Obamacare saturation, but news is news – and the news is still terrible for Obamacare. Katie emphasized “Related Press” fact-checking Obama’s latest round of perfidious health care claims. Now McClatchy is getting in on the action with uncompromising headline“Obama boasts about health care savings, but costs are likely to rise for many.” Yes:
President Barack Obama attacked Republicans on Thursday for trying to dismantle his flagship health care law, saying it already provides such benefits to millions of Americans, including declines in projected premium costs in nearly a dozen states. However, experts predict that premiums for individual plans will enhance in most states due to fresh consumer protections required by extensive legislation. The impact on premiums will vary from state to state, depending on geographic location, type of insurance, and individual characteristics of the enrollee. For example, while Obama pointed to premium cuts in New York state, state officials in Ohio say the average proposed premium for individual insurance next year is up 88 percent compared to the average price this year, according to the Society of Actuaries. In Maryland, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has proposed a 25 percent premium enhance next yearinitially demanding a 50% raise. Final rates have not been set in any state.
Damn, Republican-dominated Maryland or something. The president’s two success stories are New York and California, Democratic-dominated states with distorted and exorbitant health care markets that predated Obamacare mandates. However, even in these jurisdictions, advocates are forced to cherry-pick data and compare apples with oranges to obtain positive results. In fact, premiums in California will enhance by as much as 1.5% for robust juvenile and middle-aged citizens 146 percent. Indiana is the latest state to release its premium projections, and it actually did not pretty. On a separate Obamacare front, Weekly standard catches it the Obama administration is quietly backtracking on another major promise on which the bill was sold. We have repeatedly shown that the president’s promise “you can keep your plan” does not work – but he said the same about the people’s doctors. Remember This?
PRESIDENT: This is the guarantee I gave…If you have a doctor you like, you will be able to keep him.
What does this “guarantee” look like now? Here’s a screenshot from HHS” fresh website on Obamacare. Note this highly qualified answer to an oddly familiar question:
