Justice Dept.: #Obamacare will cost 80 million the coverage they like

**Posted by Phineas

"Obamacare has arrived"
“Obamacare has arrived”

This isn’t exactly new news; when Forbes reported it back in October, their estimate was 93 million. But, the difference aside, this counts as an official admission that tens of millions will lose their employer-based coverage:

β€œIt is projected that more group health plans will transition to the requirements under the regulations as time goes on,” DOJΒ lawyers wrote in response to court challenge to the law’s requirementΒ that insurance plans provide coverage of contraception. β€œDefendants have estimated that a majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather status by the end 2013.”

The DOJ citesΒ the June 17, 2010,Β editionΒ of the Federal Register, which acknowledges thatΒ within the first year of Obamacare’s employer mandate, the insurance plans offered by many employers will be canceled because their policies willΒ not be grandfathered under the administration’s regulations. ”The Departments’ mid-range estimate is thatΒ 66 percent of small-employer plans andΒ 45 percent of large-employer plans willΒ relinquish their grandfather status byΒ the end of 2013,” the Register says. β€œThe low-end estimatesΒ are for 49 percent and 34 percent ofΒ small and large-employer plans,Β respectively, to have relinquishedΒ grandfather status, and the high-endΒ estimates are 80 percent and 64 percent,Β respectively.”

Note the date: June 17th, 2010. The government knew over three years ago that “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.” was a lie.

Period.

And it’s not just Obama and his Unicorn team who were lying weasels about the gutting of the private insurance market: via Byron York, here’s a list from Senator McConnell’s office of 27 Democratic senators making the same false promise. Per Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), “We all knew.”

I’ll bet she’s popular in the Democratic caucus room right about now.

Think for a moment about the furor we’re currently experiencing over 4-5 million plans being canceled: sticker shock, anxiety over disrupted coverage, reduced provider networks, the loss of critically-needed treatment. Now multiply that 16-fold to deal with the 80 million likely to lose their group health plans.

And we’ll be ready to remind these people just who it was who threw multiple monkey wrenches into their lives.

Because we’re helpful that way.

via Bryan Preston

RELATED: Will Democrats soon begin calling for repeal? And here’s a great article by Andrew McCarthy on “Obama’s 5% Con Job.”

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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