Investor’s Business Daily found an alarming bit on page 16 of the 1,018 page health care destruction bill.
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.
Holy. Crap.
If this isn’t enough to stop Obamacare in its tracks, what would be? Does Barack Obama not realize that people can hear and understand him when he talks?
For patients, he made a sweeping pledge that “no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.
I guess it depends on what your definition of “keep” is. If your plan offers Package A and Package B and you’re on Package A, you will never be allowed to pick Package B.
If Obama was being accurate, he’d have said, “If you like you’re plan, you’re sticking with your plan or going on the government dole.”
