{"id":9092,"date":"2011-03-31T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:03:17","slug":"but-remember-its-not-a-government-takeover-of-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9092\/but-remember-its-not-a-government-takeover-of-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"But Remember, It&#8217;s Not a Government Takeover of Healthcare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the line that President Obama used so often to soothe the anxieties of Americans worried about healthcare reform? &#8220;If you like your health insurance, you can keep it&#8221;? Well, things have gotten a litte more complicated since those earlier, more innocent days. Just ask Joel Ario, the HHS bureaucrat charged with overseeing Obamacare&#8217;s health insurance exchanges. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/healthwatch\/health-reform-implementation\/152429-hhs-official-employers-may-gradually-move-to-exchanges\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill&#8217;s Healthwatch Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf it plays out the exchanges work pretty well, then the employer can say \u2018This is a great thing. I can now dump my people into the exchange and it would be good for them, good for me,&#8217; \u201d Ario continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A kindly reminder from those of us not serving in the Obama healthcare politburo. If, like the majority of Americans, your employer provides your healthcare, you don&#8217;t get to choose whether or not you keep your current healthcare. And the government is putting its hand on the scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the line that President Obama used so often to soothe the anxieties of Americans worried about healthcare reform? &#8220;If you like your health insurance, you can keep it&#8221;? Well, things have gotten a litte more complicated since those earlier, more innocent days. Just ask Joel Ario, the HHS bureaucrat charged with overseeing Obamacare&#8217;s health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[602,1137,2537,861,2538,186,2536,35],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-government","tag-freedom","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-choice","tag-hhs","tag-insurance-exchanges","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}