I don't believe a single one of the promises you listed has been broken. Are you serious about "death panels"? If so, I'm done debating anything with you because you're beyond any rational discussion. "For 2009, "death panel" was named as PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year", one of FactCheck's "whoppers", and the most outrageous term by the American Dialect Society."
Really? Let me ask you the following questions: 1. For everyone who liked their health plan, have they been able to keep it? 2. For everyone who liked their doctor, have they been able to keep him or her? 3. Is health insurance more or less expensive on an inflation adjusted basis since 2010? I'll even give you more slack. Have health insurance rates grown more or less than historical growth figures since 2010? 4. What do you think this development is, if not a "death panel"? http://www.futurity.org/cost-study-calls-change-breast-cancer-screenings/ Anyone who is denied care by a bureaucrat for cost reasons is participating in death panel activities. Health care will become more expensive, less efficient and less efficacious. This country will produce fewer physicians, as the incentives for the best and brightest to enter medicine will be diminished. This country will have fewer nurses staffing hospitals because there won't be room in the budget. There will be fewer medical devices sold, as their cost will increase due to their taxation. Bottom line, demand will increase and supply will fall precipitously. Does that sound like a prescription for a successful system?
It's a large humanitarian program which will push up the average life expectancy, just as previous Democratic programs did--Social Security and Medicare. Of those three, it's the one under attack from every dirty trick the rich people's party can think of. Those three help Americans more than the rest of the entire Federal government combined.
Sure, some people employers have dropped their health plans, but only because there was another option available. Losing a plan they "liked" is different than losing health care. If your employer drops their coverage because other options are available that is on the employer, not the law. That is a generalization, some people will not be able to keep their doctor. Over the past 5 years I have had to change my dentist and my optometrist because the doctor either stopped accepting my insurance, or my employer changed their plan. Each had nothing to do with the ACA. Yes, the majority of people who liked their doctor have been able and will be able to keep their doctor. Again, the law does not make you change your doctor, if your coverage changes and as a result you have to change your doctor that's different. Calling it a "broken promise" is just a Republican tagline. The 4 percent increase for a family is relatively tame, at least compared with the roughly 10 percent annual increases experienced a decade ago... The data also suggest that the new health care law is not leading, at least so far, to a rapid escalation of insurance costs. Link "Lie of The Year" All of that is speculation. I thought you wanted to talk facts?
Bull Shit! If this figgin thing wasn't put there by the government, totally out side the business of the government as authorized in the Constitution, employers would not be dropping their employees and or retirees. I am getting stuffed with one of these friggin exchanges and I have no fucking idea what it is going to cost, what it covers nor any other information on the thing. After a whole lot of years, now here comes this shit with no information what so ever. How the hell can this be a good thing when there is no information period and I have to make a fucking selection next month???? What the fuck it has been the law this long and there is zero information to inform a person on what they are getting?? What sort of fucking idiot would come up with a plan like this???? Barrack Hussian OBama!!!
[video=youtube;KoV0NeHNklk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoV0NeHNklk[/video] Those weren't just taglines, they were promises made to the American people to get this legislation passed. That's what President Obama means when he adds "Period". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/health-insurance-premium-increases_n_2932704.html You're hung up on the name rather than the fact that a rationing board exists and will dictate treatment available. It's using bureaucrats to allocate increasingly scarce resources. We were told they were a lie. Now we know better. Don't hate me. Hate economics. It is a discipline of few immutable laws. Sadly, for you, The Law of Supply & Demand is one of them.
