On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Larry C. Lyons<[email protected]> wrote: > > Limbaugh Lie #6: Quoting Bernie Sanders, who said, "'Does Barack Obama > want to kill off the old people or the disabled?' That is insane," > Limbaugh responded, "It's not insane. It's going to happen! It's going > to > happen."(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081409/content/01125115.guest.html) > Obama is not going to kill off old people and the disabled.
Not personally but they'll be dead, point to you. > Limbaugh Lie #7: "On page 16 of the House bill, it's right there, and > you've heard people quote from it. I'm going to summarize it, page 16: > private insurance will become illegal. Insurance companies cannot > write new policies, people will lose their existing policy if they > change jobs, if they change coverage, or if they change prices. Once > any aspect of your private health insurance changes after this bill > goes into effect, you can't renew it. You have to go public > option."(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_080409/content/01125111.guest.html) > Limbaugh Lie #8: Limbaugh again referred on August 7, 2009 to "the > provision on Page 16 of the bill that would force you out of your > private insurance plan."(August 7, 2009, > http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/... > Limbaugh Lie #9: Limbaugh added on August 10, 2009, "you will lose > your private insurance and your doctor. It's on page 16 in the House > plan."(August 10, 2009, http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/... > None of this is true. Page 16 is an obscure clause for "grandfathered" > health insurance plans that don't have to meet the new requirements > (such as a ban on discrimination for preexisting conditions) because > they're not enrolling new people or changing coverage. Private > insurance will still be completely legal, contrary to Limbaugh's > paranoid misreading of page 16. He was reading a IBD editorial. "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law. So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:303545 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
