The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warns of dire consequences should Obamacare be repealed. Unfortunately, she neglects to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

She says they if Obamacare is repealed, people will have their insurance cancelled if they get sick. That's not true. There was already a law in place that prevented an insurance company from doing that. The law does allow insurers to retroactively cancel health coverage, but only if the consumer has committed some sort of fraud, such as willfully making a "material misrepresentation" (lying or omitting key facts) on the application form. Cancellation of health coverage is rare - less than one half of one percent of all policies are cancelled each year.

She says that tens of millions will pay more for preventive care. That will be instead of you and me paying for their preventive care to the tune of $2.7 trillion over the next 10 years when Obama promised it would cost only $900 billion.

She says that hundreds of dollars in savings each year would disappear for people who now get free preventive care. Hate to tell you this, Kathleen, but nothing is free. Someone is paying for that "free" care.

She says we will face a shortage of doctors and nurse. I think just the opposite is true -- if we don't repeal Obamacare, a survey by a non-partisan medical group called the Doctor Patient Medical Association revealed that 83% of doctors have said they will consider abandoning their practices under Obamacare.

She says repeal will take us back to days when insurance companies were accountable to no one. Kathleen, Kathleen -- every state has an insurance regulation board.

Kathleen says repealing health reform will stop efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud that helped them recover $4 billion last year. Guess her boss just added to that when he gave $8 billion in  bonuses to mediocre private Medicare plans - a program that auditors had already urged the administration to cancel.

Kathleen says repeal means millions of Americans will lose their insurance. I doubt that. And there's no way she can back up her assertion.

"How repealing the health care act hurts you." The Dallas Morning News; July 12, 2012; p. 15A.

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