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But thats not the half of it. Obamas claim that unwelcome cancellations are confined to the individual-insurance market is another brazen lie. In the weekend column, I link to the excellent work of Powerlines John Hinderaker, who has demonstrated that, for over three years, the Obama administrations internal estimates have shown that most Americans who are covered by employer plans will also lose their coverage under Obamacare. Mind you, 156 million Americans get health coverage through their jobs.
John cites the Federal Register, dated June 17, 2010, beginning at page 34,552 (Vol. 75, No. 116). It includes a chart that outlines the Obama administrations projections. The chart indicates that somewhere between 39 and 69 percent of employer plans would lose their grandfather protection by 2013. In fact, for small-business employers, the high-end estimate is a staggering 80 percent (and even on the low end, its just a shade under half 49 percent).
That is to say: During all these years, while Obama was repeatedly assuring Americans, If you like your health-insurance plan, you can keep your health-insurance plan, he actually expected as many as seven out of every ten Americans covered by employer plans to lose their coverage. For small business, he expected at least one out of every two Americans, or as many as four out of every five, to lose their coverage.
Aviks eagle eye also catches that, even as Obama was spinning on Thursday about how his broken promise affects only the teeny-weeny individual-insurance market, his administration was telling a much different story to state insurance commissioners. In a letter about Obamas proposed fix, the head of the relevant consumer-information office referred to all individuals and small businesses that received a cancellation or termination notice with respect to coverage (emphasis added). This, Avik observes, contradicts assertions from the administration that only people in the individual market people who shop for coverage on their own are affected by the wave of Obamacare-related cancellations.
It gets worse. My friends at the American Freedom Law Center (on whose advisory board I sit) are representing Priests for Life, a group aggrieved by Obamacares denial of religious liberty specifically, the ACAs mandate that believers, despite their faith-based objections, provide their employees with coverage for the use of abortifacients and contraceptives. On October 17, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services, represented by the Obama Justice Department, submitted a brief to the federal district court in Washington, opposing Priests for Lifes summary judgment motion. On page 27 of its brief, the Justice Department makes the following remarkable assertion:
If we start seeing "group" cancelations next year, then I guarantee you, you have never seen shit hit the fan like it will.
