Just a few weeks ago the honorable Congresswoman from San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, made the stunning claim that health insurance in America would be cheaper than ever before. “Many of the initiatives that he passed are what are coming to bear now, including the Affordable Care Act,” she said at a recent press conference about legislation championed by the President. “The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down in both the public and private sector.”
Of course, days later we found out what the future of ”affordable” health care and lower costs actually meant, when the IRS admitted that prices would top $20,000 per year for the average American family.
It seems that these are the ramifications for passing a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care industry without having first read the bill to find out what was in it.
Now that we know government mandated ObamaCare will actually cost Americans at all income levels significantly more than was promised by the President and Congressional democrats, Nancy Pelosi is back peddling on her statements, claiming that she and the bill’s supporters never said there’d be lower premiums.
Well, some people don’t have health insurance and they’ll certainly have their health insurance premiums go up [laughs] because they don’t have any health insurance now, so they don’t have any premiums now.
But for anyone that that is a challenge, there are subsidies in the exchanges.
And, it’s also about what you get for your money. In other words, people will be getting no lifetime or annual limits on their coverage, no discrimination because of pre-existing medical conditions… it has a whole array of quality that is in the legislation.
But if you don’t have health insurance and you don’t qualify for a subsidy… and you’re mandated to have health insurance, you won’t have an increase.
We’re very sensitive to what it means to young people, especially to young singles. And, umm, there are policies that people can get.
I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country will have a lower premium, because everybody in the country doesn’t have health insurance so how could it be lower.
But the fact is, the value of what you get for the cost that you pay, is a reduction in cost to you.
…for everybody it is going to be a liberation, a freedom.
…and if you’re a small business. What this means for small business. It is… it is…umm… it’s uh… it’s a solution for the American people. It lowers cost.
Nancy Pelosi is absolutely right.
Obamacare, which will be enforced at the barrel of a gun, is freedom!
It’s a liberation… of your money from your wallet, to be spent on Nancy’s mile high booze-it-up plane junkets and subsidies for her district that will enrich her colleague Diane Feinstein’s personal net worth.
What’s worse is that the people of San Francisco and the greater United States remain oblivious to how they just got raped by this woman, her cronies in Congress and the health care industrial complex.
Nancy Pelosi belongs in prison, not on the floor of the United States Congress.
Watch the video – if you’ve got the stomach for it:
Yes the democrats get control for a short period of time and take healthcare and make it worse, you idiots are putting conservatives back into office where this will be undone. Screwing small business and the middle class out of their hard earned money to subsidze the poor isnt going to work, oddly John Stewart hasnt covered this deatail but has certainly poked fun at the states that dont want anything to do with the affordable care act, but that is what hypocrites do.
The ‘affordable care act’ was authored by the money changers no doubt.