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Obamacare website no longer says "If you like your doctor you

Posted: Aug 28, 2016

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" was President Barack Obama's signature catchphrase he used to sell the Affordable Care Act to the American people. Now Obamacare's flagship website, healthcare.gov, no longer even addresses the issue. Ironically, the section in question was the first public (if indirect) admission by the Obama administration that the president's promise was less than a "guarantee." The original website contained a section entitled "Can I keep my own doctor?", later revised to "How to keep your doctor." Just before open enrollment began last year, however, this section was dropped. Now the same link takes users to a section entitled "How to pick a health insurance plan." (The internet address that contains the words "keep-your-doctor" redirects to an address ending with "plan-types.") ;

Healthcare.gov has gotten rid of Obama's failed promise. - "Those who designed this disastrous gvt

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intervention into the marketplace now want more disastrous government intervention. Their solution is more taxpayer money for subsidies to individuals and insurance companies and a "public option" government health plan."

The Obama administration has only itself to blame for this mess — jamming the bill through Congress and ignoring warnings of these predictably disastrous results.

A good Republican doctor told me - yesterday --

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The whole problem originated with group health insurance. If we had just maintained the system with everyone having individual policies the rates would not have accelerated, etc.

I can only believe that he has never had a health issue or he is young enough to not understand having coverage discontinued by a policy.

He used the example of auto insurance. I used the example of heart attack at 25...and never finding coverage again.

This is a fine example of people fighting with Obamacare.

When are people going to realize the villain in this whole deal is the insurance companies. They are making BILLIONS in this system for nothing more than middle-man administration. Want to rise up against something, get rid of the insurance companies.

Insurance should be for major medical (catastrophic) only - like it used to be, and the rest

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should be paid for out of pocket. The price would drastically be reduced.

Price would not drastically reduce - until we get healthcare costs

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back under control.

It's a domino effect. Healthcare costs go up when - Truthhurts

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the government sticks their fingers in the pie and tells the insurances that they can only charge so much. IOW, in Medicare, the government may pay only $14 for a doctor's appointment that charges Medicare $100. But the Medicare supplement plan must pay the balance of $86. The patient who pays cash may pay $50 which is the REAL cost of the appointment.

Why the difference? Because the doctors and the hospitals are being squeezed by what the government and insurance companies want to allow and it never truly covers the cost of treatment. I think a doctor is worth $50 for that 15 minutes, but I don't believe a hospital room is worth $500 a day, nor do I believe cardiac therapy is worth $300 a "session" if all they do is get you out of bed and help you to the hall where you walk, without help or a rehab assist, for as long as you can stand it.

Just like college costs. They would go down if the gvt got out, but - that's not going to happen.

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I've gotten into many "discussions" over Obamacare. I warned people and I was - laughed at, mocked made fun of, called

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a racist (how original, right?, blocked on Facebook, dumped from emails. There are people I’ll never talk to again.

Well now, everything I told them is all coming to pass. I’m glad the insurance companies are going bankrupt. I think it’s funny as he!!. Now the feds will step in with Medicaid for all. According to plan.

If only it were legal for Americans to select a more affordable health care plan based on their individual needs instead of a government-approved health care plan. I can't believe I'm actually saying that in the "land of the free."

Obamacare was written and passed BEFORE the GOP gained the majority. During that time, the GOP did write nearly a dozen alternatives, maybe more than a dozen, none of which were allowed to reach the floor by Pelosi.

We might have a chance if both parties would get out of bed - with the medical cartels and their massive

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political contributions. Even today, most commentary on the EpiPen scandal is deliberately avoiding the point.

Insurance companies are getting out of the marketplace and doctors are retiring. - Single payer gvt dolled out SELECTIVE

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healthcare ahead, kids!

Predicted. Implemented. All by design, Comrades! All. By. Design.

Gosh, Americans are stupid...Jonathan Gruber even said so!

Plus charities (the province of churches and charitable organizations) - would solve many ills, and

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many ills would solve themselves if we got rid of...Overgrown government, mass immigration of dependents, national debt and socialist power.

Insurance was started after WWII as a way to attract - employees to companies. It was never

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meant to be what is has become.

There are quite a few doctors who opting out of Medicaid/Medicare and accepting cash only.

I feel Obama is a complete failure - however, you are spot on as to who is to blame - insurance comp - anon

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Insurance companies are the real villains, not Obamacare.

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