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Heritage
Network
Obama Said This
with a
Straight Face
by Amy Payne
October 22, 2013
“Thousands
of people are
signing up and saving money as we speak.”
Yes,
President Obama
actually said that yesterday about Obamacare. As we all know, for the
vast majority of people, the opposite is true.
SIGNING
UP? Most people
have found it impossible to sign up for coverage through the
Healthcare.gov website. In fact, some of the people standing behind
the President during his speech—who were supposed to represent
“success stories”—have not yet obtained coverage.
SAVING
MONEY? Heritage
research revealed that in 43 out of 47 states with information
available, premiums are higher in the Obamacare marketplaces than in
the individual insurance market.
The first
problem—website
signups—can be fixed. The second—Obamacare’s price—cannot.
Obama
touted the fact that
young people can stay on their parents’ plans until they are 26.
But what about parents whose premiums are going up? Or people who are
turning 27 and facing the disproportionately high cost burden that
Obamacare puts on young adults?
He touted
the law’s
Medicaid expansion, which puts more Americans on a broken-down
program where one out of three primary care doctors already won’t
accept new patients.
He
claimed Obamacare would
bring “competition” and “more choices.” In reality, the
opposite is true. Heritage experts Robert Moffit and Edmund
Haislmaier have explained how “Under Obamacare, Americans will have
less choice and less competition” (emphasis added).
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