President Barack Obama has promised and reassured and promised again that Americans with private insurance coverage will be able to keep their current coverage under his new health care plan. He has even held a press conference during which he vehemently denied the government plan would force out the private sector. The reason Obama has been forced to repeatedly assure the nation of this promise is that Republicans are concerned government run health care is inextricably linked to socialism.
Perhaps the President intends to deceive the nation (and Congress) in order to get the bill passed before the Legislature's recess, or more likely, perhaps Obama has not read the 1,018 page omnibus bill. Either way, the point remains the same: America will soon have exclusively government run health care if the bill passes.
On page 16 of the truly enormous bill, it reads: "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day." In effect, what this means is that after the bill becomes law, no new policies will be allowed to be written by private insurers. Moreover, if an individual were to drop their private insurance for whatever reason and attempt to pick up a different private carrier they would be unable to do so.
This will, quite clearly, force all private insurance companies into nonexistence. Maybe that is why only 40% of Americans are happy with the direction the United States is heading.
Click here to read about Obama's two other health care lies he continues to propagate.
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