{"id":23992,"date":"2016-09-02T12:18:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23992"},"modified":"2016-09-02T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:20:23","slug":"if-you-like-your-medical-plan-you-can-kiss-it-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23992\/if-you-like-your-medical-plan-you-can-kiss-it-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Like Your Medical Plan, You Can&#8230;  Kiss It Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his weekly address on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/weekly-address-president-obama-outlines-goals-health-care-reform\" target=\"_blank\">June 6, 2009<\/a>, Barack Obama promised, &#8220;If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to September 1, 2016, under <em>The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/insurers-move-to-limit-options-in-health-care-exchange-plans-1472664663\" target=\"_blank\">headline<\/a> &#8220;Insurers&#8217; Offerings Dwindle&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under intense pressure to curb costs that have led to losses on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, insurers are accelerating their move toward plans that offer limited choices of doctors and hospitals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most bizarre of all? \u00a0ObamaCare&#8217;s failures are prompting more and more leftists to openly advocate a complete government takeover of the healthcare system and imposing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2016\/01\/18\/bernie-sanders-incredible-28-trillion-plan-to-replace-obamacare-with-single-payer-health-care\/#3f14402a1bba\" target=\"_blank\">single-payer<\/a> plan. \u00a0In other words, we&#8217;ve gone from promises that choice in healthcare providers won&#8217;t be impacted by ObamaCare to open advocacy of a system with zero choice whatsoever. \u00a0This is how liberalism works, a slow march to mass submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his weekly address on June 6, 2009, Barack Obama promised, &#8220;If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.&#8221; Fast-forward to September 1, 2016, under The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s headline &#8220;Insurers&#8217; Offerings Dwindle&#8221;: Under intense pressure to curb costs that have led to losses on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, insurers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4907,35],"class_list":["post-23992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-insurers","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23994,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions\/23994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}