Thursday, July 16, 2009

Obamacare Will Outlaw Private Health Insurance Plans!

We were warned and warned and warned.
Verum Serum revealed earlier the real goal of the Obamacare is to rid the nation of private insurance options.



We just didn't think it would come so soon.

Obamacare will outlaw individual private coverage.
Investor's Business Daily reported:

Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"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" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage.
In 2003 Obama said he was a proponent of single-payer universal health care system for America.
It looks like he will get it.

Hat Tip Tom W.

More... Three House committees are preparing to vote on the Health Care Bill already today.

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