One of the primary justifications offered by the President and his congressional accomplices for defying the public will on “reform” involved the benefits Obamacare would provide patients with pre-existing conditions. Well, that turns out to have been another of Obama’s trademark whoppers:
About 200,000 Americans whose illnesses have kept them from getting regular health insurance will not be allowed to enroll this summer in a new lower cost federal program …
The problem, it seems, is that these patients had enrolled in VERY expensive state plans designed to cover patients in their situation. And Obamacare contains some fine print:
The nation’s new health law creates a far cheaper insurance program opening July 1 for people with pre-exisiting medical conditions. To qualify, a person can’t have had health coverage for six months.
In other words, these people are trapped in the pricey state plans. It’s a classic “catch-22″ situation: These folks can’t go without coverage for six months and they can’t enroll in Obamacare unless they do. As the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner puts it:
The unintended consequence of this important piece of legislation is we’re going to effectively penalize the people who have been doing the sacrificing all along.
In that, they’re just the latest members of the club. Obamacare penalizes a lot of people. It penalizes people who have “cadillac plans.” It penalizes people who don’t buy insurance. It penalizes businesses that don’t provide government-approved coverage. And, of course, it penalizes all of the taxpayers.
Such is life in a time of hope and change.
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