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Another Unkeepable Obama Promise...

Now even the Washington Post reports that the Obamamantra ? ?If you like your doctor ... if you like your current health plan...? ? is a promise that can?t be kept, no matter how often it is repeated.

President Obama promises that, if health-care reform is enacted, people will be able to keep their current coverage.

?I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren?t listening: If you like your health-care plan, you keep your health-care plan. Nobody is going to force you to leave your health-care plan,? he said Saturday in a town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., much as he said Friday in Belgrade, Mont., and earlier in the week in Portsmouth, N.H.

However, under legislation drafted by House and Senate Democrats, that would not necessarily be true.

Employers can drop their current coverage. A worker?s current coverage may well not be available in the new ?exchange? that will be created. The new ?exchange,? in short, will force many employees to exchange their current coverage, which they like, for new coverage, which may not be to their liking.

In short, the ?if you like your doctor ...? promise is quickly being relegated to the same heap that contains promises to add 46 million people to the health rolls without increasing the deficit or debt and that a few hundred billion dollars can be wrung from Medicare without rationing ? excuse me, attenuating ? benefits or services to geezers

Full post as published by Discriminations on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).