How good is a law if you have to lie about it in order to get it to pass?

 "If you had one of these substandard plans before the Affordable Care Act became law and you really liked that plan, you're able to keep it. That's what I said when I was running for office. That was part of the promise we made." -  President Obama 11/2013

The following week reports surfaced that as many as 90 million people might lose their existing policies.

"I want to speak plainly, clearly, honestly, about what the Affordable Care Act means for you and for the people you care about. Let's start with a fact. About 85% of Americans already have health insurance. If you're one of these folks, it's reasonable that you might worry that health care reform includes changes that are a problem for you, especially when you're bombarded with all sorts of fear mongering. So the first thing you need to know is this. If you already have health care you don't have to do anything."           - President Obama Sept 26 2013.

So less than one month later at the small company I work for we received notice that our existing health insurance policy was no longer available and the replacement plan will cost us 142% more. Yes you read that correctly 142%.

In defense of the Obama lies about keeping your insurance,   Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said "If the president were to allow people to have those [insurance] plans be downgraded, or insurance companies to keep selling barebones plans ... he'd be violating [an] even more important promise to the American people -- that everyone would have a guarantee to access of quality affordable health insurance."

 I guess that means it was OK that we were lied to because it was for our own good.

But our plan was not downgraded before it was canceled; it was eliminated because it now violated Obamacare rules. This was not a “barebones plan” but a HSA high deductible plan that everyone in the company loved. Our plan covered 100% of all medical expenses after you satisfied your deductible.    Prior to meeting your deductible, medical expenses were covered by the employees HSA plan that was 50% funded by the company.

The President at first acted surprised that plans were being canceled, but we now know that the President and Congress were warned a number of times that the ACA would result in millions of insurance policies being canceled.  

So the President lied that we could keep our plans, then the President lied again that he knew nothing about it. Then the President said that it was a good thing our plans are canceled because we will get better insurance after the ACA was enacted, which also is a lie.

And for our small company the biggest lie of all - Obama promised, "We're gonna lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year."

Finally the President tells us that the number of people who had plans canceled was a “small minority” about 5% of the population. I guess that makes those 5% expendable for the common good. The ACA at best will provide insurance to 10% of the population who did not have insurance previously and even after the plan bill is fully implemented will still leave an estimated 5% of the population with no insurance.

So let’s look at what has happen since the Obamacare bill was voted on over 3 years ago:

·         The progressive speaker of the house first told us “we have to pass the bill to know what’s in it”. (Three years later the administration still does not know what is in the bill and a 600 billion dollar web site to explain it to us is a total failure.)

·         The President lied to us about the fate of existing polices

·         The President lied about not knowing there would be cancelations.

·         The President then told us it was OK he lied because it was for our own good and that it was really not a big deal because it only affected 5% of the population.

·         American citizens are forced to buy products they do not want at drastically inflated prices from what they had before the ACA was passed.

We fought and won WWII in less time than this administration has had to enact this law and they can’t even make a web site work.

Is this what a country based on individual liberty looks like? Is our national motto now “some must suffer so others gain, and the government will decide who suffers and who gains”?

Should the government of a free people lie to those people to get policy enacted and then tell them it is ok to lie as long as “it for your own good”?

Do you really want these people controlling your health care . . . . . . or anything else for that matter!