In Iowa, Obama fibs about his own health bill

[doctordog]

In Iowa, President Obama repeated the myth that his bill forces insurers to cover children with pre-existing conditions:

Starting this year, tens of thousands of uninsured Americans with a preexisting condition and parents whose children have a preexisting condition will finally be able to purchase the coverage they need. (Applause.)

Did he read his own bill? Did he read any of the subsequent coverage? Apparently due to Democrats’ failure to read their own bill, ObamaCare does not require coverage of children with pre-existing conditions until 2014, despite their talking-points to the contrary in the run-up to its passage.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/in-iowa-obama-fibs-about-his-own-health-bill.html#ixzz0jJxDzCPV

[foxbaron]

All those with no insurance and pre-existing conditions just hang in there you only have to wait about four years to be covered. Aren't you glad getting health insurance passed was such an emergency?

I guess all those folks who die every day in this country because they have no insurance shouldn't bitch if they can hold out for at least four more years.

If you die first then shame on you.

[Smurf-Herder]

Here's the deal. I think I heard this on NPR on the way home the other day.

The Senate Bill is incomplete, because they thought it would go back into committees to iron out the details and fixes. So the House voted on a mess of proposals, which weren't vetted for correlations and interconnectivity. The fixes voted on in the Reconciliation Bill only fixed financial conflicts between the House and Senate bills. And according to what I heard today, there isn't even a provision to enforce the mandate for buying insurance or paying the fine; even though over 16,000 new IRS agents are to be hired for the enforcement itself.

Congress bought a pig-in-a-poke.

[doctordog]

Here's the deal. I think I heard this on NPR on the way home the other day.

The Senate Bill is incomplete, because they thought it would go back into committees to iron out the details and fixes. So the House voted on a mess of proposals, which weren't vetted for correlations and interconnectivity. The fixes voted on in the Reconciliation Bill only fixed financial conflicts between the House and Senate bills. And according to what I heard today, there isn't even a provision to enforce the mandate for buying insurance or paying the fine; even though over 16,000 new IRS agents are to be hired for the enforcement itself.

Congress bought a pig-in-a-poke.

This is much worse than the "bridge to nowhere"