YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE

No matter what that lying snake oil salesman says, you will NOT be able to keep your current health care insurance policy under Obama’s health care plan. Here is how it works.

Assume this plan passes. Next year, your employer looks at the cost of the plan he is currently paying for you. He decides that it would be cheaper for him to pay the 8% payroll tax to Mr. Obama, and ceases to offer health care as a benefit. Here’s the rub. Private insurance companies will be forbidden from writing private insurance policies directly to you. They will only be allowed to write insurance policies through a government clearing house, which will dictate to the insurance companies what the plans must contain. What is in these policies will be determined by an unelected Health Commissioner. The commissioner will dictate what is in the policies, and how much the insurance companies can charge. There will be no variation. The insurance companies, in reality, will cease to be insurance companies and become insurance administrators, monitoring the government imposed health insurance on a fee basis. When you hear Obama say he wants to “level the playing field”, this is what he means. This, by definition, is socialized medicine no matter what platitudes he wraps it in, or how convincing his smile.

YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO BUY PRIVATE INSURANCE OTHER THAN WHAT IS MANDATED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

This isn’t health insurance reform. This is health insurance control. We will be no better than Canada or the United Kingdom, whose newspapers and pundits are screaming at us to run the other direction.

Read more here: DEMS WANT TO CONTROL HEALTH DECISIONS
By Robert Tracinski