Why Obama Lied About Keeping Your Health Insurance

Why Obama Lied About Keeping Your Health Insurance

Al Ritter 

As a Marylander, I have experience in knowing what the term “mandates” means. Maryland is a state with the second highest healthcare mandates in the nation. Before Obamacare we had 66 healthcare mandates. In other words for an insurance company to do business in the state of Maryland they MUST cover 66 issues that the legislature sees as the basic minimum. As a result Maryland’s health insurance is some of the costliest in the nation. 

Healthcare mandates were set up prior to Obamacare by individual states, not the federal government. Remember before the debate on Obamacare people were arguing about how they wanted to buy healthcare across state lines? At that time that was a physical impossibility because each state had control of their own healthcare within their state’s boundaries. They enjoyed this freedom because of the Constitution. Any power not mentioned in the Constitution reverts back to the states. 

Any states with an overbearing amount of healthcare mandates will probably not see the large increase in premiums that other states will. It stands to reason that the more things that are mandated, the more the premiums will increase. In an effort to keep the government cost lower, they are attaching EXTREME deductibles to many of these policies which in turn, reduces the quality and quantity of healthcare. The result of the “Affordable Healthcare Act,” is that any policy you would receive under this directive will be neither “affordable” nor will it be “healthcare” as you have had in the past. Obama will deem what mandates you are required to carry not you! The government always knows best!

I feel that the administration will attempt to blend Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid into one large single payer system before the end of Obama’s term, this has been his aim and the Senate’s aim from day one, and I think he has a good foot hold to do so unless Obamacare falls apart under it's own weight first. 

Because Chief Justice Roberts declared the Affordable Healthcare Act a “tax” the Obama Administration has now enacted national mandates on healthcare “labeled” as rules and regulations, thus removing state sovereignty through rules. This is merely an end run around the Constitution. 

Democrats have learned well from this ruling, and have instituted many violations of the Constitution so far under the guise of rules and regulations. A classic example of this has been shown in the EPA with its massive rule changes and replacing common sense rules with eco terrorism by executive fiat. Long gone are the days the delicate balance of rules vs. company profit. More actions will be taken in the next 3 years by the democrats to push societal change by rules rather than by vote, and it will continue until lawmakers fight back and say no!