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Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist on the costs to Americans for the health-care law.
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You can't expect insurers to cover preexisting conditions.
And the cost of older kids coming on your plan and not charge more for that plan.
A lot more.
Especially when the money those insurers are supposedly getting from folks.
Who have to kick in for mandatory coverage won't be taking those -- in for years now.
This stuff insurers are supposed to cover it couldn't.
But they're covering.
Will that kicks in right now so premiums go up now and I think -- 2400 dollar thing is.
Is just for starters that's the thing about getting all those health -- -- -- contrary to what you were told you do have to pay foreign upfront.
A lot and a lot more and doesn't Grover Norquist no it -- -- about it and he too was ignored.
About it.
The -- -- saying the problems are gonna get worse but it is staggering but not too surprising -- not.
-- -- Now it's it's what we should've expected when the government said.
We're gonna spend trillions of dollars and known -- pay -- You know what but that's -- -- -- -- how could you think that millions coming on assist with preexisting conditions.
Won't.
With so much else.
That whether you were Ford don't know the heartfelt decency and goodness of that that you wouldn't have to see premiums go up a lot to cover that to cover them.
Obama and the Democrats said they were going to bend the cost curve down.
Which sounds like a good idea but there -- only two parts of Obama -- that quote unquote -- money.
The first is they stopped paying hospitals 700.
Plus.
Billed in dollars.
-- just cut.
Medicare.
Which will cut of course what hospitals can do for -- the other part of savings.
Is -- Which is that committee that's going to deny care rationing.
That's the only part that actually.
Drops the costs.
Of health care because they're gonna save you at certain ages and with certain diseases you can't get that operation and you can't get.
The more expensive medicine.
Those are the only -- -- reduced cost.
So until then I'm trying to -- well there interest rates at thought Brett.
Yet that overall there increasing cost but they're they're they're adding it to they're adding a tax on.
All medical devices.
How does that reduce the cost.
To say not -- taxes if you sell properties over 250000 dollar brought it -- leaving that -- -- I could almost argue the map.
Compellingly could get in their favor.
If you add in the year 216.
All of these otherwise healthy young people who have to get insurance their money goes into the system.
But even when you -- those numbers.
It is well shy of the cost of bringing all these folks sand.
And the assumption that the billions more covered will be covered by the millions more.
Who are paying and that's a big leap of faith and early on we're realizing that six million more.
Americans and we thought are gonna have to pay that help your family so -- be in no position.
To foot the bill.
-- if Obama care made economic sense they wouldn't be hiding.
Some of the costs by pushing them out this does not take place on one day.
Certain things happen now I think happened years later and some of these tax increases and and reductions in benefits and health care that you get.
Com conveniently after the next election.
After two elections they phase in the bad news hopefully so that they can keep getting.
Reelected but if this made sense they'd of written it down and showed it to all of this before the 2008.
Election they didn't do that.
There's a reason that they didn't want you to read it before they passed.
But that we are subject that I think did surprise them.
That they thought they had the goodies loaded up front and other words the pre existing coverage the -- get your kids on a policy.
Without us seeing the not so gritty part and that is premiums going up that the premium increase would be delayed until well after the election.
We since senate that's not the case insurance companies you could argue might -- literally jumped the gun.
But I'm not at all surprised that did.
Those higher costs are coming on they've got to pass along itself -- though everyone's getting screwed up.
That let this is not working it wasn't a good plan it was thrown together in middle of the night.
They hid it from the American people remember Nancy -- she's comment that we have to pass the bill so you can learn what's in it.
The house had a role at the time that no bill should be passed to lessen -- sat for a week.
On the Internet so every American could actually read -- if they -- true.
And certainly look at different sections -- -- there's a reason.
They didn't do that.
Because it didn't pass the laugh test it's now kind of falling apart and the promise that you could keep your health insurance if you wanted to.
That's been broken.
Sadly many times over the if you have a health savings account it's taxed in ways that it isn't the same health.
-- used to be if you have a flexible savings account.
It's been damaged with taxes they go through the baseball bat and smash up your insurance and then they say -- Our insurance looks better after we've messed up yours.
Not much better.
You know -- -- -- the government in the end that might evolve in a Trojan.
-- an agreement there Grover thank you very much.
