http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/5864139-417/more-bad-news-for-obamacare.html More bad news for ObamaCare STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley.cst@gmail.com June 9, 2011 9:54PM Updated: June 10, 2011 2:13AM As if President Barack Obama didnât have enough re-election headaches with the nearly daily reports of dreary economic news, now comes a new harsh assessment of his signature legislative achievement, ObamaCare. A survey of 1,300 employers by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. found that 30 percent say they likely will drop worker health-care coverage after the major provisions of the âAffordable Care Actâ come into force in 2014. A central promise in Obamaâs campaign to win passage of the act was that if you like your insurance, you wouldnât lose it under ObamaCare. Republicans, think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and other critics challenged that claim but were dismissed as Democrats rammed the measure through Congress on a partisan vote. Now the McKinsey survey confirms the warnings. Whatâs more, it found that among employers most knowledgeable about the details of the health-care overhaul, more than 50 percent said they were likely to drop coverage for their workers. Remember the famous words of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? She said we had to pass ObamaCare to learn whatâs in it. If the McKinsey survey is any guide, the more Americans learn about ObamaCare, the less they like it. This wasnât the first indication of trouble with the health-care overhaul. Its backers claimed 400,000 people with pre-existing conditions â usually uninsurable under the current system â would flock to ObamaCareâs high-risk pools. Only 18,000 had signed up by March. Worse was the revelation that the actâs expensive requirements threatened current coverage for millions of Americans. The administration had to respond by granting waivers to 1,372 employers, unions and insurance companies. No waivers will be permitted in 2014, when the lawâs heavy-hitting provisions kick in requiring all but the smallest businesses to have medical coverage for employers or face a fine. The McKinsey findings indicate employers see economic benefits in paying the fine, increasing pay for their workers and letting them go to ObamaCareâs insurance exchanges to find coverage. Despite Pelosiâs optimistic predictions, polls have rarely found an improvement in ObamaCareâs standing as voters learn more about it. And the passions of its opponents remain intense. Thatâs why it will be an important campaign issue in 2012, though how crucial may hinge on who Obamaâs Republican opponent is. The issue is a tough one for Mitt Romney, now leading in GOP polling (though not by a lot). As governor of Massachusetts, he championed a health-care reform measure much like the national act. Romney defends the program as a solution specific to the needs of Massachusetts and says other states should be free to pursue their own answers to their health-care insurance issues. He condemns ObamaCare as a failed one-size-fits-all solution that should be scrapped. The central issue of the campaign will be the economy and jobs. There Romney has impressive credentials as a successful businessman, governor and problem solver who saved the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from financial ruin. One attractive alternative to Romney is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, free of a Romneycare-type handicap. Pawlenty on Tuesday laid out an ambitious economic recovery program based on tried-and-true Ronald Reagan principles of lower tax rates, less federal spending and regulatory reform. His program won praise from conservative and business circles. The White Houseâs reflexive attack on it only underscored how the administrationâs policies have failed. While jobs will be issue one in 2012, ObamaCare, its big-government philosophy, its unpopular individual mandate and the partisan way it was forced through Congress highlight whatâs wrong with the Obama presidency. It may give Pawlenty an edge over Romney as GOP primary voters get down to the serious business of picking a serious challenger to Obama. *** But wait. Obama said if you like your doctor/insurance you can keep it. But once 2014 comes, millions of Americans (VOTERS) will lose the doctor/insurance that they like as employers will drop their coverage, and force them onto Government run exchanges. *** Like I said from the moment Obamacare was jammed down our throats, the Democrats have committed mass political suicide. But I suppose that Obama stooges like Pelosi will just refer to the tens of millions of voters that will lose the doctor/insurance they like as angry mobs. Angry mobs that will make the Democrat party extinct in just a few more years!!!!
When you screw with one's health insurance, nothing is forgiven!!!! Democrats are finished once millions start getting their insurance canceled by their employers in 2014.
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Controversial McKinsey Health Care Study Creates Major Dissent At Firm Reached for comment today, a McKinsey spokesperson once again declined to release the survey materials, or to comment beyond saying that, for the moment, McKinsey will let the study speak for itself. However, McKinsey notes that the survey is only one indicator of employers' potential future actions -- that the conclusions remain uncertain and employers' future decisions will ultimately depend on numerous variables. The three authors of the report were not immediately available for comment. Another keyed-in source says McKinsey is unlikely to release the survey materials because "it would be damaging to them." Both sources disagree with the results of the survey, which was devised by consultants without particular expertise in this area, not by the firm's health experts. ---------- In other words, the report was made up. I guess if your a republican, it's business as usual. Are the commies still trying to take over the world?
So the guy bitching about FOX's bias pulls a story from a web service known for it's "politically left perspective". How do you do it? Do you have a windmill powering your brain or is dumbing it down just a natural talent you have? Hey, did you get a job going through Palin's emails?
How the hell is the Public Sector's job to worry about our insurance? Their job is to watch the safety of food and all the chemical stuff coming in from China [which they don't EVEN]... the more things they mismanage the more they think they are entitled to!! Not to mention that they are struggling to make the minimum payments on their debt. The world's greatest economy ever imaginable has to borrow? I just don't get this whole scene...