'IF YOU LIKE YOUR DOCTOR, YOU CAN
PAY MORE' SAYS OCARE ARCHITECT

Upton 'Fix' on Hold

HELP OUR TRUE CONSERVATIVES FIGHT
TO SHUT DOWN OBAMACARE

URGENT ALERT:Now it all makes sense… Barack Obama didn't say we could have "unlimited choice" when he PROMISED that if we like our doctor, we can keep our doctor under ObamaCare.

We just didn't understand.

As ObamaCare architect Zeke Emanuel –Social Darwinian and eugenicist who just impliedOCare premium hikes provide a sort of natural selection between those who won the "genetic lottery" and those who did not – finally explained it all for us dolts on Fox News Sunday: Obama meant if you want to keep your doctor, you can, as long as you can afford to pay for the privilege of doing so!

And those who can't are "losers," and get no choice – or maybe no doctors at all. You know, survival of the fittest, and all that…

DEMAND NO "FIXES", NO FUNDING AND NO KEEP IT SCHEMES
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In case you missed it, here's the pertinent segment of the interview as transcribed by The Weekly Standard:

The host, Chris Wallace, said: "President Obama famously promised, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Doesn't that turn out to be just as false, just as misleading, as his promise about if you like your plan, you can keep your plan? Isn't it a fact, sir, that a number, most, in fact, of the Obamacare health plans that are being offered on the exchanges exclude a number of doctors and hospitals to lower costs?"

"The president never said you were going to have unlimited choice of any doctor in the country you want to go to," said the Obamacare architect.

"No. He asked a question. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Did he not say that, sir?"

"He didn't say you could have unlimited choice."

"It's a simple yes or no question. Did he say if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?"

"Yes. But look, if you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that. This is a matter of choice. We know in all sorts of places you pay more for certain – for a wider range of choices or wider range of benefits. The issue isn't the selective networks. People keep saying, Oh, the problem is you're going to have a selective network…"

"Well, if you lose your doctor or lose your hospital…"

"Let me just say something," said Emanuel. "People are going to have a choice as to whether they want to pay a certain amount for a selective network or pay more for a broader network."

"Which will mean your premiums will probably go up."

"They get that choice. That's a choice they always made."

"Which means your premium may go up over what you were paying so that, in other words…"

"No one guaranteed you that your premium wouldn't increase. Premiums have been going up."

"The president guaranteed me I could keep my doctor," said Wallace.

"And if you want to, you can pay for it," said Emanuel.

YOU READ THAT RIGHT: "And if you want to, you can pay for it." And almost certainly pay a whole lot more for the apparent privilege of keeping your doctor!

What about the MILLIONS of Americans who WANT to keep their doctor but CANNOT AFFORD TO thanks to the rate hikes under ObamaCare that are doubling, tripling and even quadrupling premiums – PLUS the same for deductibles? Not to mention the THOUSANDS of doctors who are opting out of not just the ObamaCare exchanges, but the coming chaos in Medicare and Medicaid they foresee by Obama's government takeover of the U.S. healthcare system?

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It is clear that the Obama administration is OUT-OF-TOUCH with the financial reality of most American households, in addition to FAILING TO GRASP the distinction between TELLING THE TRUTH and LYING! It is equally clear that most Republican Party "leaders" are ready to let Obama and the Democrats get away with it!

THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN.

As Congress prepares to head home for the Holidays to hobnob with major donors and try to persuade their constituents they should be returned to office in the upcoming elections – courtesy of YOUR taxpayer dollars – you and I need to begin a relentless campaign of petitions to their home districts AND their Washington offices where their staffers are STILL WORKING to POUND THEM ALL WITH THE POLITICAL REALITY.

Please, make sure Congress understands exactly how determined you are to KEEP YOUR DOCTOR and SHUT DOWN OBAMACARE!

Remind them that EVERYONE in the country is in the same boat, and special interests, like the UNIONS, should NOT be exempt from ObamaCare harms.

Already, HEARING YOU, Republican Sens. John Thune, Lamar Alexander and Orrin Hatch proposed S. 1724 to BLOCK OBAMA from exempting unions from an ObamaCare tax –a privilege of friends in high places not afforded to average Americans across the board!

More specifically, the union exemption plan under consideration by the White House would give certain self-insured, self-administered insurance plans a free pass on ObamaCare's "reinsurance" fee. Such plans, known as Taft-Hartley plans, are common to unions – political heavyweights for the Democratic Party!

DEMAND NO "FIXES", NO FUNDING AND NO KEEP IT SCHEMES
SHOUT TO CONGRESS: PASS THE UNION TAX FAIRNESS ACT, S. 1724

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It cannot be emphasized enough: We must use this holiday "down time" during December to continue bombarding BOTH sides of the aisle with our demands for the ONLY true ObamaCare "fix" – defund, revoke, rescind and REPEAL!

ObamaCare implementation MUST halt and this disastrous mess MUST be shut down before its damage to the nation is irreparable!

This fight is about whether America will restore and reform its first-class, free market healthcare system – or be herded from the rubble of ObamaCare into government run, single payer socialized medicine controlled by the state.

The House has already resoundingly passed, foolishly, the Upton HR 3350, Keep Your Health Plan Act. There is similar election year "keep" your health plan, fool-the-voter legislation afoot in the Senate to "delay" the ObamaCare pain and destruction of our household budgets and our healthcare system THAT ARE COMING WITH OBAMACARE, but with these "keep" bills will be "delayed" for many Americans until AFTER the 2014 elections if we let the Republicans act like idiots.

Don't let foolish GOP collaborators provide Obama and his doomed ObamaCare with desperation first aid – not when Democrats are already jumping ship and we could SHUT OBAMACARE DOWN NOW!

It is CRITICAL that Congress defund, revoke, rescind and repeal ObamaCare in its entirety to hasten this unwanted, unaffordable and UNAMERICAN ObamaCare scheme to its NATURAL DEATH… YOU need to SHOUT your DEMAND that Congress offer NO FAKE "FIXES" to prolong the ObamaCare agony AND risk distorting the 2014 elections!

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In an attempt to save face with furious voters and rescue his beloved ObamaCare from catastrophic failure, Barack Obama went on national television, ahead of the Upton "keep" House vote, to make the grand concession to us wee folk of suspending for one year the ObamaCare law's elimination of approximately 15 million insurance plans in the individual market. These plans, for Americans who purchase insurance on their own, represent the first wave of cancelled policies numbering some 5 MILLION – DESPITE Obama's blithe lies that "if you like your policy, you can keep your policy… period." Policies are being cancelled to conform to ObamaCare legal mandates, and since Obama announced his “keep” edict, the number of Americans suffering cancellations is estimated to be swiftly climbing to 15 MILLION souls. Another approximately 100 MILLION more Americans with employer-provided plans still have their impending cancellations to look forward to in 2014.

But the bottom line with the fake "fixes" being voted on in Congress, and being promised by Obama, is the nation will still have to suffer the disastrous ObamaCare consequences – cancelled policies, vastly higher deductibles, skyrocketing premiums, loss of physicians so government can pretend it is providing "equal" insurance to everyone. Of course, this nonsense means rationing of care and one-size-fits-all insurance including maternity coverage for men, and equivalent premium expenses for young "invincibles" in their healthy 20s and cancer-battling 80 year olds.

Obama and his Democrat accomplices are hoping Obama's "administrative" rewriting of the ACA (also unconstitutional) will allow them to not only SAVE his unfair, irrational, imploding ObamaCare but also HIDE and DELAY enough of its catastrophic effects until after next November to save Democrats' competitiveness in the 2014 elections, as well.

So WHY are the Republicans aiding and abetting them, and rushing to ObamaCare's rescue with support for HR 3350 and S 1642?

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HR 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act is bipartisan legislation that would allow plans currently available on the individual market to be offered next year, contrary to the written ACA mandates. This would provide Americans the opportunity to enroll in these policies in 2014 without penalty. Rep. Upton said simplistically, "…we will vote on the Keep Your Health Plan Act, a straightforward, one-page bill that says if you like your coverage, you ought to be able to keep it. Let's keep that promise."

How is breathing new life into the unviable, expiring ObamaCare chimera that has madly tried to marry mandated, government run, universal health insurance onto a private industry marketplace, a good idea for the GOP? Should it pass, the Senate bill S. 1642 to which Upton's HR 3350 will be reconciled coercively MANDATES that insurance companies continue to offer pre-ObamaCare plans, not just PERMITS that they may do so. This has industry-wrecking potential.

Undoubtedly an ILLEGAL maneuver, the whole "reset, do-over, KEEP" your coverage concept flies in the face of industry reality and the laws of economics. It will further destabilize and disrupt the insurance market (already in chaos) and will immediately sanction the creation of a multi-tier health insurance system allowing lucky Americans who dodged the first or second wave of cancellations a one year grace period to regroup and seek alternatives, while the unlucky guinea pigs are left uninsured or with costs driven up further and further to compensate for the ill effects of "adverse selection" in the pool of insureds – leading inexorably to the famous "death spiral" of ObamaCare financials.

We MUST demand that the GOP stop torturing the nation by extending the needless death throes of ObamaCare with fake "fixes." Let it go.

A leading health insurance trade group has already issued a warning that for those Americans not temporarily "saved" from ObamaCare by the Upton bill or with Obama's keep-your-plan edict, MASSIVELY HIGHER PREMIUMS to compensate for the actuarial disarray are to be expected.

If these fake legislative "fixes" are passed, the ObamaCare agony is prolonged, and the responsibility is shifted to the insurance industry. Should insurance companies dare protest what no doubt will drive them into the ground, the campaigning Democrats will be sure to blame big insurance "bad apples" right along with the Republican Party as we as a nation are put on cruise control to single payer, government run health care.

WHERE IS THE WISDOM WE NEED FROM OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS?

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"Fixing" the website, "fixing" the health care cancellations and "fixing" the rumored one-year delay coveted by so many seeking re-election in 2014 ARE NOT A FIX.

One official explained Obama's big concession on the private plans as "a way to smooth the transition from where we are to where we are going." If the GOP plays according to Obama's plan, we are going straight to CommieCare. Not only is today's vote CRITICAL for Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America, it is another step by which the Democrats are going to again outmaneuver the Republican Establishment.

Sadly, the GOP appears ready to help! MAKE THEM HEAR YOU!

TELL THEM NO UPTON FAKE "FIX"!

Remember: ObamaCare is the law the DEMOCRATS forced on American without a single Republican vote. They didn't read what was in it then and the only reason they care NOW and have been spurred to "action" is because they are feeling the HEAT!

The ghastly Nancy Pelosi herself has already reassured the faithful that the vote on the Upton/Landrieu strategy is no more than a "belt and suspenders" approach when it comes to ObamaCare and by no means a vote to challenge Obama or his health care overhaul…

This is nothing but a trick. America must not fall for it.

Before Obama's big compromise, House Speaker John Boehner said of the ObamaCare debacle: "The only way to fully protect the American people is to scrap this law, once and force all."

"There is no way to fix this," he said.

And he's right. Unfortunately, Boehner has NO SPINE whenever it comes down to a fight and NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU TODAY TO WHIP ANY OBAMACARE 'FIXING' VOTE "NAY"!

We MUST continue to advocate for an immediate SHUT DOWN of the individual mandate, with defund, rescind and repeal vote schedules. ONLY THEN will state insurance commissioners and the insurance industry understand they need to respond NOW to consumers with the expectation that ObamaCare WILL be repealed in 2014 when we TAKE the Senate majority and Obama is boxed in by both chambers!

DEMAND NO "FIXES", NO FUNDING AND NO KEEP IT SCHEMES
SHOUT TO CONGRESS: PASS THE UNION TAX FAIRNESS ACT, S. 1724

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As Red State's Erick Erickson so astutely points out, the Fred Upton bill is about "messaging" not about "substance" – but that can be VERY dangerous playing with Democrats…

"The House bill allows Congress to express their support for Americans keeping their health care plans (thereby blessing Obama's dubiously legal keep-your-plan delay) WHILE doing nothing as it has no teeth. But it will pass on a "bipartisan" basis and then it will be morphed in the Senate into the Landrieu bill which does have teeth with which to further destroy our free market health care system….

When the Landrieu version gets back to the House, the GOP will be hard-pressed to explain their support for American's keeping their health insurance but not actually seeing it through by holding the health insurance companies to it."

And let's not forget the excuse we can already hear:

The House GOP will say that Landrieu's bill will help force the ObamaCare collapse because the health insurance companies will not be able to sustain its burdens.

…Except ObamaCare conveniently already includes provisions to BAIL OUT INSURANCE COMPANIES along the lines of the "too big to fail" ideology we've seen in the past! And remember, if they DO fail, that leaves America dependent on a government-provided single payer system.

The only way out of this mess is for REAL Republican leaders to STEP UP and quit playing these "fix it" games. They need to demand a FULL REPEAL of ObamaCare, not settle for meaningless "fixes" or "delays" that only deliver election year advantage to Obama-ites while abandoning the American people.

ObamaCare is anti-liberty. It is unworkable. It is unjust. The GOP MUST stop rescuing it. We MUST hold our ground and DEMAND its demise. America CAN and WILL do better. REPEAL, REPEAL, REPEAL!

Please, BLAST-FAX THE HOUSE AND SENATE to MAKE IT CLEAR THAT DEFUNDING AND REPEAL OF OBAMACARE NOW IS NON-NEGOTIABLE! And if you can, please consider making your most generous contribution – $15, $40, $65, $250 or even up to $2500 or more – so that we can continue raising the voices of MORE concerned Americans like YOU until ObamaCare is DEFUNDED and DEFEATED for good – SELECT HERE!

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