Especially when it comes to health care, Democrats can’t help but wildly distort the truth. First, the basics: the CBO scoring of the House bill says that approximately 22,000,000-24,000,000 fewer people will have health care if the American Health Care Act is signed into law.
Simply put, that’s BS.
According to the Democrats, the people most affected by the AHCA will be people with pre-existing conditions and the elderly. Again, that’s an outright lie. The elderly won’t lose coverage if the AHCA is signed into law because Medicare is still the law of the land. People with pre-existing conditions won’t lose coverage because of high risk pools.
Minnesota had a high risk pool prior to the ACA. In 2007, the Kaiser Health Foundation reported that 92.8% of Minnesotans were insured. With nearly everyone insured, it isn’t a stretch to think that the majority of seniors and the majority of people with pre-existing conditions were insured. In fact, it’s a pretty safe assumption that high percentages of those demographics were covered.
In short, whenever people hear Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton complain that millions of people will get thrown off of their health insurance, let’s remember that these are the same people that said that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
Those of us who are old enough will remember this everlasting moment:
Whichever memory you choose, the results are the same. The Democrats’ primary tactic is to fabricate answers in the hopes of frightening people. It’s always been that way.
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How many people lost the insurance they liked and had to go onto Obamacare, an insurance they couldn’t use or afford? How many of those 23 million are people who don’t want to buy insurance? Don’t we still have 45 million uninsured even with the Obamacare mandate?
Those with pre-existing conditions should pay more than someone who doesn’t, just like car insurance companies charge more for drunks and speeders.
The government needs to get out of healthcare/health insurance and let the people decide for themselves what they want or need. If you really can’t afford insurance but want it, we can help but if you decide you don’t want insurance and then get sick, you’d better have a big bank account or get set up on a payment plan because hospitals shouldn’t have to give their services away for free either.