The Obama administration is out in force telling pre-election lies so that the Democrat’s base that loves entitlements stays calm.
New data from Joint Commission on Taxation led the TPC to cut the number of people paying federal income taxes by 3.9 million. In total, 77.5 million individuals and married couples — or tax units. as they are defined by the TPC — won’t pay income tax this year out of a total of 171.3 million. The previous estimate was for 66.2 million out of 163.8 million tax units not paying income tax in 2015.
In 2015, this represented 45.2% of the taxpayer units. In 2013, 40.4% of taxpayer units paid no taxes. With the influx of illegal immigrants paying no taxes the percentage of non taxpaying units will increase.
The illegal immigrants will receive Medicaid and other entitlements.
Hillary Clinton has pledged to increase illegal immigration with open borders and increase Medicaid enrollment.
Taxes will have to be increased. The middle class will be crushed. Hillary Clinton will hide some of these taxes as President Obama has done for Obamacare..
President Obama is trying desperately to save Obamacare from self-destruction.
I have recently reviewed the phony enrollment figures for 2014, 2015 and 2016 published by the Obama administration. There has not been a significant increase in enrollment in the last three years.
The claim that there are 20 million enrollees as a result of Obamacare is not even a half-truth. There are only 10 million enrollees from the Health Insurance Exchanges.
The failed Medicaid entitlement program has an added 10 million enrollees and insufficient physician coverage.
The first pre-election day lie was HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell telling a group that the 2017 Open Enrollment period was going to sign up an additional 1 million enrollees. She said the Federal Health Insurance Exchange marketplace was strong.
This year, we know the Marketplace is strong, but we think it will grow even more.”
“As we look to this next open enrollment period, we project that the Marketplace will grow by another million people. By the end of open enrollment for 2017, we expect 13.8 million people to have selected a plan.”
Obamacare enrollment through the Health Insurance Exchanges was supposed to grow to 21 million last year according to the CBO estimate. At best, 11 million people are enrolled not 12.8 as claimed. Eighty-five percent of the enrollees receive subsidies.
President Obama’s goal is to have a single party payer in control, namely the government.
Secretary Burwell goes on to conclude;
It looks like President Obama is shaping the future in a way Americans did not anticipate or want.
The next big pre-election lie was President Obama’s lie admitting that Health Insurance Exchange premiums will go up 22% in 2017. He also said that the government would cover the premium increases for those receiving subsidies.
He did not discuss the government’s position on the increases in deductibles. Is President Obama also covering the deductible increases?
Where is President Obama getting the money? I think the money for the increased subsidies was built into the budget by telling the CBO that there were supposed to be 21 million enrollees in the Federal Health Insurance Exchanges. Only 10 million enrollees showed up.
The reason for these continuing lies is to calm the public. President Obama and Hillary Clinton want us to believe that Obamacare is good and is working well.
The obvious message of these lies is that the public should vote for Hillary Clinton to continue this good work.
This You Tube is an excellent summary of all the lies President Obama and the Obama administration have told the America public since the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed.
It is worth ten minutes of your time to review this deception.
This week he tried to dodge the responsibility for the Health Insurance Exchanges demise and also claimed he should not be blamed for the rise in premiums in the private group insurance market.
Three hundred dollars a month or $3,600 dollars a year is a lot of money for a person making between $40,000 and $50,000 per year.
The premium increases in Birmingham, AL (up 71% from $288 to $492) and Oklahoma City, OK (up 67% from $295 to $493).
“ Meanwhile, unsubsidized premiums for the second-lowest silver premiums will decrease in Indianapolis, IN (down -4% from $298 to $286 for a 40-year-old non-smoker), Cleveland, OH (down -2% from $234 to $229), and Providence, RI (down -1% from $263 to $261) and increase just 1% in Little Rock, AR (from $310 to $314).”
In many states there isn’t any competition in healthcare insurance for consumers business.
“Marketplace insurer participation in states using Healthcare.gov in 2017 ranges from 1 company in Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming, to 15 companies in Wisconsin.”
Hillary Clinton bragged that healthcare reform was called Hillarycare long before it was called Obamacare.
I would not be very proud of that statement, if I were her.
I do not believe the American public is not going to be fooled again by progressive rhetoric and lies.
Obamacare is a disaster. I have described the disaster and its potential consequences for since its passage in 2010.
It has caused both the public and private healthcare markets to escalate insurance premiums to unaffordable levels for all Americans. The cost to the federal government is unsustainable.
The present awareness of the Obamacare disaster is the straw that is going to break the back of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
All Americans deserve a better healthcare system than Obamacare.
My ideal medical saving account is the solution to the healthcare problem.
The opinions expressed in the blog “Repairing The Healthcare System” are, mine and mine alone.
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