Even the media outlets that usually love President Obama are choking on ObamaCare. The Associated Press posted an article today noting President Obama’s spin on the ObamaCare rebates.
The article reports:
In his speech defending his health care law Thursday, Obama said rebates averaging $100 are coming from insurance companies to 8.5 million Americans. In fact, most of the money is going straight to employers who provide health insurance, not to their workers, who benefit indirectly.
Obama danced around that reality in remarks that also blamed problems in establishing affordable insurance markets on political opponents, glossing over complex obstacles also faced in states that support the law.
In his speech, the President introduced several people who got rebates from their health insurance premiums last year, but there were a few things he neglected to mention. Generally speaking, the rebates are sent to the companies who provide the insurance for their employees–those companies have no obligation to pass those rebates on to their employees.
There is also another really dangerous aspect of these rebates. President Obama stated, ” If they’re (insurers) not spending your premium dollars on your health care – at least 80 percent of it – they’ve got to give you some money back.” Since when does the government have the right to tell any company selling a product how to spend the money it receives for that product?
The article also reports:
In California, for example, where there is plenty of competition by health insurers wanting to get into the exchange, an actuarial report commissioned by Covered California, the state agency running the insurance marketplace, found that middle-income residents could see individual health premiums increase by an average of 30 percent while costs go down for lower income people.
In West Virginia, Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin – also a cooperative partner in expanding Medicaid and setting up an exchange – complained to federal officials this week about delays in rules and guidelines from Washington as the state struggles to meet deadlines under the law.
ObamaCare needs to go away. We need enough men in Congress who love this country more than they love their political parties to make that happen. If we don’t have those men in Congress now, we need to elect them in 2014. ObamaCare needs to go away.
