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Letter: Do promises matter?

The Columbian
Published: November 11, 2013, 4:00pm

The promises were profuse and explicit.

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

If you like your present health insurance policy, you can keep that policy.

On average, every American household will see their health care expenses drop by $2,500 a year.

How is it possible that some people cannot recognize that these promises were categorically false?

Some people refer to the Obamacare law as a classic “bait and switch.” Meaning that this law has limited resemblance to the original law that passed more than three years ago.

Soon after the law was passed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tightened the regulations on an individual’s health care coverage. As a result, the president’s promise that an individual’s health plan will be “grandfathered in,” if that is your wish, has been almost erased.

It is projected that some Americans will be negatively affected by higher premiums, and/or loss of your longtime doctor, and/or higher co-pays, and/or higher deductibles. Some will simply have their policy canceled by their insurance company due to ACA regulations.

I can hear the critics saying grow up, this is the law of the land. Numerous laws have been repealed in our past and slavery was once the law of the land.

Ron Hughes

Vancouver

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