Will You Be Able to Keep Your Insurance?

People,do not believe that Congress is going to let you keep the insurance that you currently have. Congress wants the government to handle all health insurance. If the reform allows you to keep your current insurance, how long will you be able to do so? Also, watch them closely. Do not be surprised if they vote on health-care reform before they leave for their break. They are known to sneak bills in at the last minute or in the middle of the night.

Yeah sure, they're going to sneak a bill past their masters, the insurance lobby.
Get a brain, Harry. Or is it Louise?

The insurance industry has been spending one and a half million dollars a day. If nothing is done does anyone believe they will not raise rates and drop people even worse then they have before? This is cutting into their profit and these are some greedy people.
What makes you think that you will be able to afford the coverage you have now if nothing is done? They will cut coverage and raise rates. Your premiums will cost more and cover less and less.

Since the Obama administration will be making all the rules for benefits that will qualify.

The tag line should be:

"If they like your plan then you might be able to keep it"

Gee, I think Congress should just give John Q. Citizen the same health plan THEY enjoy. Imagine how fast health insurance and Social Security would get fixed if our esteemed Senators and Congressmen/women had to live with it the way we do.

Where does the fantasy that we'll be able to keep our current coverage/physician/whatever if the Obama ideas are implemented come from? My family has had its coverage changed by my employer (not the federal government) and has been forced to change primary care physicians three times within the last 15 years. And there's been no governmental involvement in those forced changes. Are the voices whining about "forced changes" going to get businesses and insurors to make a binding commitment not to force changes? Or is the moaning about lack of choice just a political ploy?

Why don't you put the rest of the applicable text from that report instead of just one side to be misleading?

"The net effect of the proposal on employment-based health insurance reflects larger changes in the other direction, however. We estimate that about 12 million people who would not be enrolled in an employment-based plan under current law would be covered by one in 2016, largely because the mandate for individuals to be insured would increase workers’ demand for insurance coverage through their employer. ON NET, THEREFORE, ABOUT 3 MILLION MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE THEIR PRIMARY COVERAGE THROUGH AN EMPLOYER UNDER THE PROPOSAL THAN UNDER CURRENT LAW (as shown in the attached table)."

It is very discouraging to have achieved a huge electoral victory ony to have it over come by money. Money still rules our congress.
we need to voice our anger.

What a ruse!!

*No TORT reform.
*No Health Savings Accounts to allow individuals to at least be partially responsible for their OWN health care.
*No intra-border health insurance sales
*No targeted language for fraud, waste and abuse of MEDICARE and MEDICAID.

This bill is nothing more than an uncontrollable cost entitlement program, masquerading as ‘REFORM’!

This reminds me of an outdated sausage factory with three week old meat, trying to dress up the product with colorful 'casings' to sell as ‘gourmet’!

HOW CAN YOU TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE SAVING THEIR TAX DOLLARS WHEN THE PACKAGE WILL COST AT LEAST ONE TRILLION DOLLARS??

Team Obama is beginning to insult the intelligence of a lot of people who supported him. NOT GOOD!

Isn't this article inaccurate now? The CBO released a report this week that said that a public option would NOT put private industry out of business.

Right now, Wall Street is running health care. All of this talk about Washington coming in between you and your doctor is from the people that REALLY ARE coming between you and your doctor.

There is a reason that insurance profits went up 428% from 2000-2007. It is because very few insurance companies run health care for everyone.

Remember, 78% of the people that went bankrupt from medical bills HAD HEALTH INSURANCE when they got sick. Just because you pay your premiums, doesn't mean you are really, truly covered.

you know I'd believe Obama didn't want to run our healthcare if he wasn't already running the auto industry, trying to run the financial industry as well as having ridiculously bad impact on the energy industry.

exactly WHAT INDUSTRY is he NOT trying to run? that might be a shorter list.

Congress has been bought and paid for by the insurance industry big time. Pelosi scarified her leadership when she allowed bencnmarks in the budget bill and her virtue and judgement have always been over-rated.
The media does not have enough spunk to get a reliable estimate of the market value of the Congressional health benefits - what you or I would pay an insurance company to get the same quality of health care coverage.
With the total national bill for health care during the next 10 years costing at least $33 trillion, making the one trillion dollar cost of the health care reform bill look like chump change.
If the Republican leadership in Congress were certain that defeating health care reform would embarrass and weaken President Obama, they would be delighted to double both the profits of the insurance companies and the number of uninsured Americans. Their opposition is hardball, cold-blooded politics without any traces of integrity or fiscal responsibility. Their health insurace coverage will remain unchanged and they are almost as selfish as the lazy, timid Democrats in Congress.

If your employer provides your insurance and stops and forces you to enter the public option then how can folks be asured of "keeping the plan they have'?

Hollow promise that can't be kept