FACT CHECK NO. 3: Can You Keep Your Health Plan?

You CANNOT keep what WONT EXIST....Either Obama will bankrupt the private insurers....take them over and tell them what to do, so you STILL have Government health care under the same name as now.....or send them a letter in the mail like he did the car dealerships and TELL THEM THEY WILL BE CLOSING !!!! Your employer WILL DROP all private coverage when Obama Care takes effect ....YOU WILL NOT have your same coverage and YOU WILL BE FORCED ONTO THE GOVERNMENT PLAN ...DONT BE FOOLED FOLKS !!! Additionally, Your doctor will OPT OUT of this mess....just like they did the HMO's years ago....they will get paid less than now, and while you may THINK that is a good thing...would you rather have an "overpaid" doctor...OR NOT ONE AT ALL? When there is 10 doctors trying to treat millions of people....you will change your mind !!! THIS is what is going to create LONG waits for care....

Once Obama Care is the ONLY plan....the Government will then cut back on EVEN MORE care , Deny more care, and raise rates if you are paying for the plan....THEY WILL HAVE CONTROL OVER WHETHER YOU LIVE OR DIE.....Dont agree with the government? NO care for you?

This is a DANGEROUS plan to give your government control over you living or dying.....Everyone wants affordable health care....but AT WHAT COST? Do you want to be OWNED by the government? This is what will happen....

What char in ohio said is so true. This is going to be a communist country before we know it. As far as the healthcare is concerned if you are sick or you have a chronic condition you can bet that you are not going to receive quality care if any care at all. Being a mother of a child who is chronically ill I am very concerned about the quality of life my child is going to have if this reform is passed. I do pay alot for health insurance, but i know that i haven't had any problems with my insurance not paying claims. I don't think obama care would want to pay the 5,956.00 every 3 month treatment that my child gets to keep her in remission. they would probably say that it is too expensive sorry she can't have it, just let her die. I don't understand why we keep paying for all of these illegal aliens being on medicaid, and trust me we do, i see it everyday. so if they really wanted to do something about healthcare reform start by stopping all of the medicaid and welfare fraud that goes on from people.

The problem with the health care system is the cost of illegals receiving free care. I hope our new state uniforms will be attractive.

p mcclain wrote: "I do pay alot for health insurance, but i know that i haven't had any problems with my insurance not paying claims...obama...would probably say that it is too expensive sorry she can't have it, just let her die...I don't understand why we keep paying for all of these illegal aliens being on medicaid, and trust me we do, i see it everyday"
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So you think current insurance companies have a golden record paying claims? Try talking to my sister, a cancer nurse at Johns Hopkins. And you think the governmnet would prefer to let kids of voters die? And you think illegal aliens are getting Medicaid? That's illegal! If you really "see it every day" why aren't you reporting it to someone? Otherwise, aren't you effectively an accomplice to it?

I hate Obamerica

Obama is slyly deceiving the public. The bill in congress has restrictions that the media are hiding. One restriction is that no new worker entering the system can have a private policy since insurers will not be allowed to write "new" policies. The bill is going to force insurers who have grandfathered in customers to create a "new" private plan which they will be moved into. This plan will be a very minimalist plan which greatly descriminates against the elderly. There are provisions that say if ANYTHING changes in your current private plan, your contract will be considered terminated and you will have a deadline for enrolling in the govt plan. The brainchild behind this monstrosity is Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm's brother who is a physician and who is well published on the subject of healthcare reform. His ideas amount to full soviet style govt control of every aspect of healthcare from cradle to grave. In one of his books he actually stated that the hypocratic oath should not be taken "seriously" when doctors decide on care for the elderly. Instead they should think of how the money for that end of life care could be better spent on the young or education, or other worthwhile endevors of societly. This man is a monster and his ideas are nothing but flat out communism at its worst.

The above comment from pmcclain and others are pure speculation and assumptions taken out of the blue. probably" is not an argument. Look at the German healthcare. There are plenty of private insurance companies. None of them went out of business; they are all thriving besides the government mandated program. That is reality and not the speculation propose by some brained washed individual. And the scare tactics to suggest that seniors getting not the treatment they need because they are old is rubbish. Sure this current system does not work for millions of Americans and more and more are driven into economic ruin, but lets keep it...because we need to make sure that the executives of the private insurer get their fat boni and the MDs are in for the money not for the quality of care.

In reply to "Tonka":
"I hate Obamerica"

Well, aren't you just special.

Why don't we all read the bill? It's online! That way no more arguing and name calling. For example page 16 clearly states that once you make a change in your existing private plan or you lose your job or change jobs you will be required by law to enter into "a qualified plan"! Translation government plan!!! There you go. Simple, he's twisting words. If you never change anything about your plan and you stay at the same job you will have a grace period and then you will be forced by law to enter a government plan. The person that said France and Germany having thriving private insurance providers is also correct because those countries are not requiring people in forcefully enter a government plan as this bill proposes. You see its not about health care, IT'S ABOUT CONTROL!!!!

Just curious, but have any of you actually read the proposed healthcare reform plan? It seems that most people with strong opinions on this issue are basing them on either a reporter's paraphrasing of the plan or a talking head's response to the plan... Does no one else see this as a serious problem? I mean, whether you support or condemn the plan, shouldn't you make an honest attempt at understanding it first?