{"id":11536,"date":"2013-10-31T00:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2013-10-31T00:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T07:36:48","slug":"about-those-cancelled-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/about-those-cancelled-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"About Those Cancelled Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visualize this if you will.  You\u2019re paying $200 per month for a used car, and though you are happy at the moment, you don\u2019t know that you\u2019ve been ripped off.  The engine, the brakes and the transmission are all about to fail, and the dealer has an escape cause built into your warranty, so he won\u2019t honor it.  Now, let\u2019s say someone comes along, takes your car, and gives you another that is in good repair and has a solid warranty for $205 per month.  Wouldn\u2019t you say you were better off?  Those cancelled health insurance policies are much the same, but Republicans are calling the solution a rip-off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"31policy\"A new controversy over the president\u2019s health-care law is threatening to overshadow the messy launch of its Web site: Notices are going out to hundreds of thousands of Americans informing them that their health insurance policies are being canceled as of Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

The notices appear to contradict President Obama\u2019s promise that despite the changes resulting from the law, Americans can keep their health insurance if they like it. Republicans have seized on the cancellations as evidence that the law is flawed and the president has been less than forthright in describing its impact. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe real problem is that people weren\u2019t told the truth,\u201d New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Tuesday on \u201cCBS This Morning<\/a>.\u201d \u201cYou can remember, they were told that they would be able to keep their policies if they liked them. Now you hear hundreds of thousands of people across the country being told they couldn\u2019t.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lawrence O\u2019Donnell provided excellent coverage of this controversy.  (International readers, if you can\u2019t view this. try searching YouTube or Bing Videos for Lawrence O\u2019Donnell \u201cHealth Care: Campaigning or Governing\u201d<\/em>.  If not there by the time I post this, it should be in a day or two.)<\/font><\/p>\n