Modesta Winkler
South Wayne
Surprise. You may well lose your current health insurance.
Remember the promise President Obama made about your medical insurance plan: "If you like what you've got, you can keep it?" It has now been revealed that it's not true for the employees of as many as 80 percent of America's small businesses.
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, the ranking member of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), has exposed yet another loophole in Obamacare that threatens to eliminate the health insurance programs offered by a very high percentage of small businesses.
The loophole also threatens all small businesses with higher healthcare costs and more regulation, even if they're able to keep their current coverage.
The policies covered under an Obamacare "grandfather clause" will be void if, over time, costs increase past what they were at the time Obamacare was signed into law.
Here's an excerpt from the discussion of "grandfathering" on the Department of Health and Human Services (DDHS) website that confirms the deception: "If your current plan significantly reduces your benefits or increases your out-of-pocket spending above what it was when the new law was enacted, then your plan will lose it's 'grandfather status.'"
Of course, a government official will determine whether or not your current plan has failed the test the provision sets. With that in mind and applying the inevitable cost increases since Obamacare was signed into law, even the DHHS data admits it.
Senator Enzi is urging his colleagues to demand a "vote of disapproval" using the following admonition:
"The administration's grandfather rule is a job-killing, wage-cutting, game-changer for small business. This is not the kind of reform people wanted."
So this is supposed to be an improvement? Now everyone will be losing their healthcare, including the elderly, not just 30 million?
South Wayne
Surprise. You may well lose your current health insurance.
Remember the promise President Obama made about your medical insurance plan: "If you like what you've got, you can keep it?" It has now been revealed that it's not true for the employees of as many as 80 percent of America's small businesses.
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, the ranking member of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), has exposed yet another loophole in Obamacare that threatens to eliminate the health insurance programs offered by a very high percentage of small businesses.
The loophole also threatens all small businesses with higher healthcare costs and more regulation, even if they're able to keep their current coverage.
The policies covered under an Obamacare "grandfather clause" will be void if, over time, costs increase past what they were at the time Obamacare was signed into law.
Here's an excerpt from the discussion of "grandfathering" on the Department of Health and Human Services (DDHS) website that confirms the deception: "If your current plan significantly reduces your benefits or increases your out-of-pocket spending above what it was when the new law was enacted, then your plan will lose it's 'grandfather status.'"
Of course, a government official will determine whether or not your current plan has failed the test the provision sets. With that in mind and applying the inevitable cost increases since Obamacare was signed into law, even the DHHS data admits it.
Senator Enzi is urging his colleagues to demand a "vote of disapproval" using the following admonition:
"The administration's grandfather rule is a job-killing, wage-cutting, game-changer for small business. This is not the kind of reform people wanted."
So this is supposed to be an improvement? Now everyone will be losing their healthcare, including the elderly, not just 30 million?
