{"id":2175,"date":"2010-08-26T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2010-08-26T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:57:04","slug":"remember_the_heathcare_promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Heathcare Promises ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/26\/3-million-seniors-to-lose-their-existing-drug-plans\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting today that under Obamacare, over three million senior citizens on Medicare drug plans will have to look for other plans.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Associated Press posted an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100825\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_medicare_drug_plans\">Yahoo News<\/a>&nbsp;which put a positive spin on these changes.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how you feel about the changes at Medicare, the fact remains that the promise made was the promise broken.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>There were three main promises made by President Obama when the Healthcare program was debated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It won&#8217;t increase the deficit<\/li>\n<li>It won&#8217;t raise the cost of health care<\/li>\n<li>If you like your current healthcare insurance, you will be able to keep it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regardless of how you spin it, we are watching all of those promises be broken.&nbsp; Obviously, you cannot lower the cost of health insurance by adding coverage for millions more people.&nbsp; If health insurance is run by government bureaucrats, someone has to pay the salaries of those bureaucrats.&nbsp; Whenever the government overregulates something, consumers lose.&nbsp; It is becoming very obvious that all the promises made were not going to be kept.<\/p>\n<p>There is about two months left before the Congressional elections.&nbsp; Please understand that a vote for any Democrat is a vote to continue to implement Obamacare.&nbsp; As long as the Democrats hold majorities in the House and the Senate, the program will move forward and the new bureaucracy will be created.&nbsp; If the Republicans take the House, the funding for the new bureaucracy can be stopped and the program delayed until it can be repealed.&nbsp; I do not see healthcare being repealed while President Obama is still in office, but the damage it will do can be limited.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you believe that Obamacare is a good program, please google Massachusetts health reform (the prototype for Obamacare) and see what has happened in Massachusetts since it was implemented. &nbsp;If you love your grandparents, please vote Republican in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air&nbsp;is reporting today that under Obamacare, over three million senior citizens on Medicare drug plans will have to look for other plans.&nbsp; Meanwhile, Associated Press posted an article at Yahoo News&nbsp;which put a positive spin on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}