You Won’t Be Able to Keep Your Insurance
Linda Douglass, ex-news reporter, and her 'reality check' is laughable. Numbers do not lie -- that's why I love them. Reading the healthcare bill closely, and crunching the numbers have revealed that private insurance cannot make it, if Obama has his way. No matter how many times he says you can keep your insurance, just doesn't make it so.
RedState verifies:
You Won’t Be Able to Keep Your Insurance
Once the numbers are crunched, Obama's rhetoric doesn't match reality
By Robert Bluey, August 11, 2009
Americans are rightly concerned that a government-run health care plan will lead to changes with their own health insurance. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to draw the conclusion that employers will drop coverage once the government starts meddling with the financial incentives.
This is a problem for the White House, and it’s why President Obama uses every opportunity to tell Americans, “If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance.”
Unfortunately for Obama, Americans don’t believe him. Why? Maybe because he’s done nothing to back it up. Propaganda czar Linda Douglass’ “reality check” video (http://tinyurl.com/n52rhj) is comical in that her defense of “You can keep your own insurance” cites nothing but Obama’s own statements as evidence — as if he’s an independent arbiter.
The Heritage Foundation (where I work) last month asked The Lewin Group, a highly respected health care policy and management consulting firm, to examine the impact of H.R. 3200 on private insurance (http://tinyurl.com/lw843h). Lewin reported 88.1 million Americans (http://tinyurl.com/oyj7oz) could be transitioned out of their current plan as employers opt out of continuing their existing coverage. The chart below reveals the consequences for people living in Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
As you can see, Obama’s rhetoric simply doesn’t add up when the numbers are crunched. It’ll take more than repetition from White House to sway the American people on this one.
