Obama Says He Won’t Sign Democratic Health Care Bill!

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 1:39 am

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Obama Says He Won’t Sign the Health Care Bill if…… (CLICK HERE TO LISTEN)

Obama has said lots of things, but rarely has he said anything that would make the GOP happy. In a recent conference call with liberal bloggers, Obama took a question from a blogger in Maine who may or may not still be free to express his views, especially since his question has come to make Obama look a bit uninformed and got him to say he would not sign the current health care bill. Yes folks, the lost seconds of the following audio actually have Obama saying, “I won’t uh, sign a bill that somehow would make it tougher for people to, uh, keep their health insurance.”

I think Republicans and conservative Democrats should run with this statement. Obama said he won’t sign a bill that makes it hard for us to keep our health insurance. But that’s exactly what this health care bill does, in a round about way according to the Heritage Foundation:

This is a truly disturbing admission by the President, especially considering that later in the call, Obama promises yet again: “If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it. Period.” How can Obama keep making this promise if he is not familiar with the health legislation that is being written in Congress? Details matter.

We are familiar with the passage IBD sites, and as we wrote last week, the House bill does not outright outlaw private individual health insurance, but it does effectively regulate it out of existence. The House bill does allow private insurance to be sold, but only “Exchange-participating health benefits plans.” In order to qualify as an ?Exchange-participating health benefits plan,? all health insurance plans must conform to a slew of new regulations, including community rating and guaranteed issue. These will all send the cost of private individual health insurance skyrocketing. Furthermore, all these new regulations would not apply just to individual insurance plans, but to all insurance plans. So the House bill will also drive up the cost of your existing employer coverage as well. Until, of course, it becomes so expensive that your company makes the perfectly economical decision to dump you into the government plan.