Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh has gone on another rant against "Obamacare," this time event attacking one of the law's most popular provisions.
It's safe to say that the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," is the number one target for conservatives and Republicans across the country. While the new health care reform isn't popular with those on the right, the law's provision for insurance companies to covering pre-existing often crosses party lines and has shown to have approval across the board. While the idea of not being denied because you have a pre-existing condition is popular, not everyone approves.
One of the most out spoken critics of "Obamacare," including the pre-existing condition provision, is Rush Limbaugh. Taking to the microphone during his radio show this week, the conservative mouth piece railed against recent reports that the Affordable Care Act has dropped insurance rates in many states and called covering pre-existing conditions "welfare."
"Now, by the way, this claim here that residents of New York and California are going to have lower insurance rates under Obamacare? Folks, that's an abject lie -- and the news of the day is the evidence! The news of the day for the past month or longer has been all about rising premiums in California and New York and insurance companies pulling out of there. By design, by the way.
You would almost think with this story that CNN was going to commit a random act of journalism, but they don't. Instead, they push with a bunch of myths. First they claim that rates are going to go down in New York and California under Obamacare, which has been debunked. They won't. Then they claim that those states that have "bare-bones plans," when in fact states have high rates because they already require insurance companies to cover a lot of the nonsense mandated under Obamacare.
That's pre-existing condition stuff, which isn't insurance. That's welfare. That's another story. From CybercastNewsService.com: "Blue Cross, Aetna, United, Humana Flee Obamacare Exchanges." One, two, three, four insurance companies have pulled out of the Obamacare exchanges. It's all part of the plan. Private insurers are being forced out of the market. This is part of the Obamacare long-term plan to make it so that only government has insurance to sell."
According to US News, in addition to no longer denying Americans insurance because of pre-existing conditions, the law has ended insurance denials based on pre-existing conditions for the roughly 20 million children under the age of 19. The new health care reform is far from perfect and isn't without its fair share of criticisms, but to call parts of the program "welfare" is as ridiculous as Limbaugh himself.
