Shining the light on Obamacare.

Sure President Obama (I still cringe when I say that out loud) wants to reform healthcare. Sure it sounds like a great idea. Lower costs? Yes please. Provide coverage for more Americans? Yes please. But what’s that you say? There is fine print? Oh boy is there ever fine print to this healthcare legislation. Let me first point out that the legislation that Congress is attempting to put into law as we speak is 1,016 pages long. Do you realize the bill that was passed to build the interstates across the country, the very heart of our infrastructure, was all of 16 pages long? I’m just saying… Here are a couple things that we at FnL have found disturbing as we shine the light on what this bill REALLY wants to do.

As Obama trots out his version of healthcare reform, now offering a “public option”, one of the main concerns of everyday Americans is whether or not they will still be able to keep their current coverage if they elect not to take advantage of Obamacare. Obama tells you, of course you can keep your current plan, the goal of this reform is not to “take away the private system, it is to perfect it”. Well as you can read for yourself on page 16 of the 1,016 page bill, you are CLEARLY limited in your options if you were to lose your insurance coverage after this bill is put into law.

“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”

What does this mean to you? Well it is actually quite clear. As The O says, of course you can keep your current plan, but if you lose your current plan, or decide to be self employed, your options for healthcare? Guess what? You just hired Dr. Obama. You will be grandfathered in on your old plan, but don’t think for a second that you have an option after you lose that current plan. As Hotair.com puts it, it makes private insurers an endangered species. Is this change you can believe in? Or is this just good wording, Orwellien, possibly flat out lying in silence to the American people.

Other links we are checking out right now,

57% top income tax on New Yorkers who don’t buy prop0sed government insurance.

Full text of first 400 pages of Healthcare reform bill

Strongarming Senator Kyl for opposing stimulus funds?

Obama pitch=like a girl, Bush’s pitch=like a champ