OBAMACARE CREATES A GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MONOPOLY

Four other Obamacare disasters the media ignored

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/31/the-four-other-obamacare-disasters-the-media-ignored/

Heritage.org – Marguerite Bowling – 10/31/2013

In today’s Politico, reporters admit the mainstream media turned a blind eye and deaf ear to conservatives’ warnings about Obamacare—that not all Americans could keep their plans. But with 1.5 million Americans (and counting) receiving cancellation notices because their individual health plans don’t comply with Obamacare, the media are doing an about-face.

This isn’t the only Obamacare warning the media have ignored. Heritage and other health experts have warned about four more potential Obamacare disasters for years:

1. Back-Door Public Option: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) next year will administer at least two nationwide health plans that will compete against private insurance. OPM is responsible for these plans’ pricing, profits, and operations.

“INSTEAD OF FAIR COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE HEALTH PLANS, CONGRESS IS SPONSORING THE EQUIVALENT OF A NATIONAL MONOPOLY,” MOFFIT WROTE.

2. Illegal Subsidies to Congressional Members and Their Staffs:

3. Cancellations in Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Much of the recent media focus is on cancellations for customers with individual insurance plans, but Heritage, the Congressional Budget Office, Deloitte, McKinsey & Co., and other organizations have warned for years that businesses will drop health coverage for their employees and dump them onto the federal health exchanges. With higher health costs, it will be cheaper for many companies to pay Obamacare’s employer mandate fine rather than pay for expensive, government-mandated health plans.

4. Perverse Incentives That Hurt Low-Income Workers:

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