RiTibby

Clinton: Obama should honor health care pledge that he made when he stated repeatedly "If you like your health care coverage, you can keep it, Period!" as well as "If you like your doctor, you can keep him, Period!" which we now see isn't really true due to the cancellation of insurance policies and the reduction in network size for the minimum requirements that insurance plans call for due to Obamacare. With people suddenly finding their doctor not in the network they can get insurance in, they are having to look for new doctors. They are also finding that to keep their doctor, they are having to buy different, more expensive insurance in order to do so.



Is Clinton right for calling out Obama on this?

majik

Yes. Stephen Colbert and John Stewart played numerous clips of it last night. It's all over the media. He should be called out.

Tibbi

You cannot put everyone on a non-qualifying plan and sell at a lower price. End of story! You increase risk, risk costs money... it's very simple.



Then to write the law expressly forbidding provisions that keep insurance inexpensive, of course a LOT of plans are going to get dropped!! And some doctors may choose to drop said insurance acceptance, it happens! Unless you go completely totalitarian on the law and MANDATE that inured cant be dropped, and doctors MUST accept all, you'll never be rid of that problem. The issue is that will raise the price of newly written policies exponentially, which are already asinine as it stands, and stomps on personal freedoms of the healthcare providers as a business. The only other option is for the federal government to insure the insurers against loss. Which is a loosing battle and means more debt.



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