{"id":15399,"date":"2012-08-08T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T23:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15399"},"modified":"2012-08-08T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T23:32:03","slug":"president%e2%80%99s-obamacare-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15399\/president%e2%80%99s-obamacare-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s ObamaCare Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/79496.html?hp=r2\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> reports that in a campaign speech in Colorado today President Barack Obama framed his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLet me tell you something, Denver, I don\u2019t think your boss should get to control the health care that you get,\u201d Obama told the crowd at a campaign stop in Colorado. \u201cI don\u2019t think insurance companies should control the care that you get. I don\u2019t think politicians should control the care that you get. I think there\u2019s one person to make these decisions on health care and that is you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the President neglected to mention is that instead of employers, insurance companies, and politicians \u2013 and despite his comments about individuals \u2013 the constituency he really favors making health care decisions is the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>ObamaCare\u2019s Medicaid expansion is intended to capture millions of Americans newly eligible for government coverage that will be \u2013 at least initially \u2013 cheaper than their current private provider.\u00a0 The state-based, but federally-directed, health care exchanges are really just Trojan horse structures allowing HHS to seize control of the states\u2019 traditional role in regulating health insurance whenever a state defies a federal prerogative.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s not forget that the Independent Payment Advisory Board is empowered to act as a backdoor ration board, setting price caps on medical reimbursements that will distort the market and cause shortages.\u00a0 In socialized systems like Britain and Canada long waiting times are the norm, as are denials of procedures in favor of pain management.<\/p>\n<p>All of these elements \u2013 Medicaid expansion, federally managed health exchanges, and IPAB \u2013 empower one group: unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.\u00a0 To claim as the President does that private individuals will be the ones calling the shots on health care decisions is either foolish or deceptive, and I don\u2019t think the man is lacking in smarts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico reports that in a campaign speech in Colorado today President Barack Obama framed his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) this way: \u201cLet me tell you something, Denver, I don\u2019t think your boss should get to control the health care that you get,\u201d Obama told the crowd at a campaign stop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1064,3007,3308,2617,232,35,1447],"class_list":["post-15399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-colorado","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-ipab","tag-medicaid","tag-obamacare","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15405,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15399\/revisions\/15405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}