there is more of the article here... http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304073204579171762226617546?mod=trending_now_5 ... Suppose BHO Insurance Co. decides it wants to corner its state's market in automobile coverage. It begins an aggressive ad campaign offering a too-good-to-be-true deal: Sign up with us, and we'll give you better coverage at lower premiums. We're so sure you'll love our deal that if you like the terms of your existing policy, you'll be able to keep them--GUARANTEED! The ad campaign, with the company's charismatic president acting as pitchman, is a smashing success. The competing companies lose so much business that they declare bankruptcy or are acquired by BHO. But BHO's policies are more expensive, and they include "comprehensive" coverage most customers neither need nor want. Take it or leave it, the company says, reneging on its guarantee in the knowledge that state law requires cars to be insured before they can be driven on public streets. You'd call that a bait-and-switch. The legal term is fraud. Perhaps the president-pitchman could escape criminal charges by claiming he was just a figurehead--that subordinates developed and executed the fraud without his knowledge. But certainly the company would face at least civil liability, and its president could be held responsible for negligence. It seems to us that morally speaking, ObamaCare is the rough equivalent of our fictional scenario. The most salient difference is a way in which ObamaCare is worse than BHO Insurance Co.: The ObamaCare fraud was conducted irrespective of the volition of the "customers." Obama and his compatriots were able to carry out their scam merely by twisting arms in Congress's back rooms. Legally, however, the two scenarios are entirely different. Whereas BHO Insurance Co.'s scam is against the law; ObamaCare is the law. Thus there is no evident legal recourse for those who were injured by Obama's fraudulent promise--for people like reader Kathleen Crowley, who writes: My health-care policy was cancelled, and the Obama administration's explanation that policies are being cancelled because they were "substandard" and issued by "bad apple" insurers is absolutely not true. I had a very comprehensive policy, with a large and solid national health insurer, and the reasons my policy was not "ACA compliant" is because I now have to pay for maternity coverage, general pediatric coverage and pediatric dental coverage, as prescribed by ObamaCare. I'm 55 years old, have no children and don't plan to have children. Clearly, I am beyond childbearing age, and without children. Why would I have to purchase pediatric dental insurance? Or general pediatric care? ObamaCare is forcing people to purchase a product that they don't want and can't ever use. I do not need maternity or pediatric services but have to purchase them. The new policy that would have been "comparable" to my current policy is more expensive with higher deductibles. The president's comment of "shop around" is so smug. I sat on hold with an insurer while "shopping around" yesterday for over 20 minutes and finally gave up because I had work to do. I'll now have to factor quite a bit of time into my day to "shop around" since this president's dictates have resulted in my loss of health insurance I liked very much, and the market is now flooded with other people "shopping around." For the victims of governmental fraud, the only recourse is political, which is to say that it entails relying on the same government that perpetrated the fraud.
You may not need that maternity and pediatric dental insurance but those illegal aliens with 12 kids do. You have to remember that you are not just buying for yourself anymore. You're buying for them too, plus all the welfare leeches gabbing on their free obamaphones while they stock up on lobster with their food stamp cards.
morally speaking Obama is a lying marxist. In Marx-speak truth is defined a little differently: it's whatever is best for the state. He could probably pass a lie detector test.
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." "The goal of socialism is communism." "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency." "Democracy is indispensable to socialism." (we were originally a Republic) --Vladimir Lenin
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Obamaphones. You may want to educate yourself about them. As it is your use of the term gives just more evidence that you are a typical ignorant right wing nut job. Not that we needed any more evidence.
It's FREE. Hoo-ray. I have an idea. Let's make it "free" for everyone. Nobody pays anything, ever. Hey, let's make everything "free". Like that car? Just drive it off the lot. Nice looking house for sale. It's yours, move right in. Hungry? Order up and dinner is served. Isn't leftism great? Under Health Care Act, Millions Eligible for Free Policies By REED ABELSON and KATIE THOMAS | The New York Times Millions of people could qualify for federal subsidies that will pay the entire monthly cost of some health care plans being offered in the online marketplaces set up under President Obamaâs health care law, a surprising figure that has not garnered much attention, in part because the zero-premium plans come with serious trade-offs. Three independent estimates by Wall Street analysts and a consulting firm say up to seven million people could qualify for the plans, but federal officials and insurers are reluctant to push them too hard because they are concerned about encouraging people to sign up for something that might ultimately not fit their needs. The bulk of these plans are so-called bronze policies, the least expensive available. They require people to pay the most in out-of-pocket costs, for doctor visits and other benefits like hospital stays.
Many people will pay more, and some will be able to foot the bill. For millions more working Americans who are caught in the middle between making too much to get a subsidy and not enough to take the financial hit it will play out as follows: 10,000 a year insurance preumium, 5,000 a year deductible. You can't save up for deductible cause premium is so high. You get sick and receive hospital bill. Can't pay bill cause premium is so high. Hospital sells bill to collection agency. Credit card company raises your rate cause of collection agency activity on your credit report. Money gets tighter cause payments higher. Have to choose which bill to pay, leave other unpaid. Can't afford bankruptcy fee. Penalty on taxes cause you couldn't pay insurance premium. Refund you were counting on is less cause of penalty. Poverty insues. Now you're getting all the government bennies. The leftist plan has worked like a charm. You're reduced to the equalivalent of a street walking whore, and Uncle Sugar is your pimp.