White House: 51 percent of company health plans won't meet Obamacare guidelines

[Ballygrl]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-Documents-51-percent-of-company-health-plans-wont-meet-Obamacare-guidelines-96189484.html

Friday night news dump: White House says 51 percent of company health plans won't meet Obamacare guidelines

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
06/11/10 10:17 PM EDT

At Investor's Business Daily, Sean Higgins and David Hogberg have a doozy of a story:

Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.

The documents — product of a joint project of the Labor Department, the Health and Human Services Department and the IRS — examine the effects new regulations would have on existing, or “grandfathered,” employer-based health care plans.

Draft copies of the documents were reportedly leaked to House Republicans earlier in the week. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., posted them on his Web site Friday afternoon.  (View the full report here.)

The Associated Press is also on the story. Even they can't ignore the dishonesty that was used to sell the health care overhaul:

Over and over in the health care debate, President Barack Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.

But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers — 51 percent — will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to the draft.

Investors Business Daily link to the story:

http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politicsinvesting/1830-administration-51-of-companies-health-plans-wont-pass-muster

AP Story:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5inxXNt7_yrmfwBUecA3295gLDeOwD9G993800

[Revolution]

Can't say I am surprised. Hurts the American people either way it goes. As time progresses though, we're going to have more and more stories coming out about how Obama LIED!

*insert falsely shocked face here*

[cavegal]

Can't say I am surprised. Hurts the American people either way it goes. As time progresses though, we're going to have more and more stories coming out about how Obama LIED!

*insert falsely shocked face here*

May i add.... *insert sarcastic eye roll here>>*

[MrsSmith]

I could almost swear those "lying Republicans" kept saying this would happen...   

[NHSparky]

Amazing how the American people are finding out what's in the bill now that instead of reading it, they're having it shoved up their asses.

[Freeper]

I could almost swear those "lying Republicans" kept saying this would happen...   

Yep the lying republicans and teabaggers kept yammering on and on about this.

Who woulda thunk we were right? 

[bkg]

it's quite perfect... since there is some interpretations that state the companies cannot re-write private plans..,

[JohnnyReb]

WHAT? ...49% are left uneffected...."The One" wants a re-write.

[Revolution]

Oh, I've got people telling me over on another forum "It isn't done! It isn't done!"

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but when you were in writing courses in school, you were assigned a rough copy of a paper you needed to do, right? You gave it to the teacher, and she showed you only minor corrections you needed to make, right? After you made them, the paper would basically the same one you initially turned in. It's going to be the same damn thing with the health care bill. I tried to explain this to the guys on the other forum, but they'd have none of it.

It's the best way I can think to explain it, because I had MANY writing courses that operated in that exact fasion.

[BohemianMonk]

I read this article yesterday. What I got from it, is it will force more people toward a single pay system they will not be able to afford the insurance they have. We all know the single payer system is the end game. These are just the first steps.

[bkg]

It's 51-68% per the whitehouse, according to the radio.

"you can keep your plan."