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President Obama Speaks on Health Care, the Post-Game

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Wendya9/09/2009 6:45:46 pm PDT

re: #365 alegrias

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Dems want to discontinue Health Savings Accounts with High Deductible insurance.

Can’t have something that reduces costs!

Under the plan Obama outlined, I would not be allowed to keep my current coverage.

Contrast this:

First, if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. Let me repeat this: nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have.

With this:

As soon as I sign this bill, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it most. They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime. We will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses, because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they get sick. And insurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies – because there’s no reason we shouldn’t be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse. That makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives.
nytimes.com

That is a direct contradiction of the “you get to keep it!” line of bullshit he keeps peddling. Insurance companies would not legally be allowed to continue to offer high deductible polices. It would violate the ‘out of pocket’ and ‘free preventative care’ provisions. It is a lie.