It is unfortunate that the conversation is now about whether Obama lied in his marketing of Obamacare.
Considering that George Bush is widely perceived as having lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the selling of the Iraq war, it is easy to see how the American public would be predisposed to conclude that Obama did in fact lie. Let me provide some perspective on this issue. I was a Prudential agent for thirteen years and one of the products I sold was health insurance. As a health insurance agent I encountered many policies out in the field that were junk policies. There were cancer policies, which paid only if the insured got sick or died of cancer. There were accident policies - the so-called piano death policies - which paid only if the insured dies from a piano falling on him. I know, it's an exaggeration, but you catch the drift. Someone like Obama, who had no background in insurance, would not be expected to know that there are such junk policies being sold in the health insurance market. His statement, that no one had to change their insurance if they liked their insurance, should never have been uttered. Not the way he said it. What he should have said was that for 95% of Americans, that would be true. But for the 5% who happen to have junk policies, the statement would not be true, because Obamacare requires that health insurance policies comply with the minimum requirements of the law. Obama should go before the American people and explain that he was not aware that there were sub-standard policies that would be rendered illegal by the new law. He must admit that he screwed up because he should have been aware of that fact and that his advisers should have informed him of that fact. He must also apologize to the millions of Americans who are losing their doctors. And this happens not to be Obama's fault. People are losing their doctors because of the continuing flux in the health insurance market. Doctors continue to go in and out of the provider rolls as insurance companies retrench. Doctors die, change their affiliations, opt in and out of health insurance company rolls. I had to change my main doctor twice in one year because my original doctor opted out of United Health Care Medicare Advantage. The doctor I replaced him with was fired by his group. My new doctor is a D.O., a doctor of osteopathy, and not an internist. You would think that my health is in danger now because a D.O. does not know as much as an internist when it comes to diseases of the internal organs. But because he is not an internist, he listens to his patients more than an internist would. He has sent me recently to a complete checkup that includes expensive tests which an internist might not have sent me to because internists think they know more about how I actually feel than I do. In any case, Obama has to go before the American people and fess up. He cannot just keep quiet and wish that it would all go away. If you don't contradict all the negative commentary out there, it eventually takes on the Halloween costume of truth. Obama should know this. By not calling out the birthers who claimed that he was born in Kenya and was a practicing Muslim as soon as the hyenas started to howl, a lot of people started to believe all the canard was true. It took some doing before he got that crying baby to rest. C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Center for Good Governance" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/center-for-good-governance. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
