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Another year, another round of exaggeration from President Barack Obama and his administration about health insurance rebates.
In his speech defending his health care law Thursday, Obama said rebates averaging $100 are coming from insurance companies to 8.5 million Americans. In fact, most of the money is going straight to employers who provide health insurance, not to their workers, who benefit indirectly.
Obama danced around that reality in remarks that also blamed problems in establishing affordable insurance markets on political opponents, glossing over complex obstacles also faced in states that support the law.
A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the facts:
THE FACTS: Even in that unlikely event, most people could not send it back to insurance companies because the money doesn't go "in their pockets" and they have no control over what their employers do with it.
—"In states that are working hard to make sure this law delivers for their people, what we're seeing is that consumers are getting a hint of how much money they're potentially going to save because of this law. In states like California, Oregon, Washington, new competition, new choices, market forces are pushing costs down."
THE FACTS: It is simply not known whether health insurance will become less expensive in those states — or nationally — than it is now, or than it would have been absent the law. And hitches in setting up the new insurance marketplaces called exchanges are not limited to Republican-led states where leaders object to the law, although that political pushback is certainly part of what's going on.
In California, for example, where there is plenty of competition by health insurers wanting to get into the exchange, an actuarial report commissioned by Covered California, the state agency running the insurance marketplace, found that middle-income residents could see individual health premiums increase by an average of 30 percent while costs go down for lower income people.....snip~
FACT CHECK: Obama spins health insurance rebates - Yahoo! Finance
There you have.....once again Obama spins the truth. Knocked again by the Fact Checkers. That's Despite 35 Democrats calling for Obama to hold off on his Obamacare. All due to those problems with states that want to set things up and support Obamacare. 35 House Reps. Then the Demos in the Senate that want to have that Medical Device tax repealed.
Can't just blame the Republicans on their pushback. State and municipal laws are affected. Most being different than anothers. So even team Obama has to recognize. It is not just a problem that one or two are having and it being over the same thing. Even there it isn't a majority.
In his speech defending his health care law Thursday, Obama said rebates averaging $100 are coming from insurance companies to 8.5 million Americans. In fact, most of the money is going straight to employers who provide health insurance, not to their workers, who benefit indirectly.
Obama danced around that reality in remarks that also blamed problems in establishing affordable insurance markets on political opponents, glossing over complex obstacles also faced in states that support the law.
A look at some of his claims and how they compare with the facts:
THE FACTS: Even in that unlikely event, most people could not send it back to insurance companies because the money doesn't go "in their pockets" and they have no control over what their employers do with it.
—"In states that are working hard to make sure this law delivers for their people, what we're seeing is that consumers are getting a hint of how much money they're potentially going to save because of this law. In states like California, Oregon, Washington, new competition, new choices, market forces are pushing costs down."
THE FACTS: It is simply not known whether health insurance will become less expensive in those states — or nationally — than it is now, or than it would have been absent the law. And hitches in setting up the new insurance marketplaces called exchanges are not limited to Republican-led states where leaders object to the law, although that political pushback is certainly part of what's going on.
In California, for example, where there is plenty of competition by health insurers wanting to get into the exchange, an actuarial report commissioned by Covered California, the state agency running the insurance marketplace, found that middle-income residents could see individual health premiums increase by an average of 30 percent while costs go down for lower income people.....snip~
FACT CHECK: Obama spins health insurance rebates - Yahoo! Finance
There you have.....once again Obama spins the truth. Knocked again by the Fact Checkers. That's Despite 35 Democrats calling for Obama to hold off on his Obamacare. All due to those problems with states that want to set things up and support Obamacare. 35 House Reps. Then the Demos in the Senate that want to have that Medical Device tax repealed.
Can't just blame the Republicans on their pushback. State and municipal laws are affected. Most being different than anothers. So even team Obama has to recognize. It is not just a problem that one or two are having and it being over the same thing. Even there it isn't a majority.