New ObamaCare myths are coming out every day. Keep checking back as we fact check the rhetoric.
ObamaCare Myth: ObamaCare Creates Health Insurance
ObamaCare doest create health insurance, it regulates the health insurance industry and helps to increase quality, affordability and availability of private insurance. The law does this by creating new rules for insurers, expanding Medicaid to tens of millions of more Americans and by implementing a Health Insurance Marketplace where Americans can buy subsidized, regulated health insurance in a competitive private market.
ObamaCare doesnt create a government-run healthcare system. It greatly expands business for the private for-profit health insurance industry, creating about 12 million new customers. In other words ObamaCare regulates the free market, it doesn't replace it.
ObamaCare Myth: ObamaCare Takes Sides
"ObamaCare", officially titled the Affordable Care Act, was originally meant as a pejorative term to equate the bill with the current president in order to play politics U.S. health care reform. The truth is the Affordable Care Act is the result of a joint effort between both sides of the isle, health insurance companies and law makers and has been being worked on for decades. The law itself is based on "RomneyCare", The Massachusetts health care insurance reform law, St. 2006, c.58. "RomneyCare" was based on the individual mandate which was proposed by the Heritage Foundation in 1989. The individual mandate was championed by Republicans as alternative to single payer as it put individual responsibility at the forefront of health care reform.
ObamaCare Myth: ObamaCare Only Helps X People
The truth is ObamaCare helps everyone. Some of us might pay more, but everyone will be able to enjoy better quality health insurance and more rights and protections in regards to healthcare. When it comes to cost the rule of thumb is that the less you make the more the law helps you. Those who may pay more include individuals and families making over 400% of the poverty level and businesses with over 50 full-time employees making over $250,000.
Read more ObamaCare: Myths About Health Care Reform
ObamaCare Myth: ObamaCare Creates Health Insurance
ObamaCare doest create health insurance, it regulates the health insurance industry and helps to increase quality, affordability and availability of private insurance. The law does this by creating new rules for insurers, expanding Medicaid to tens of millions of more Americans and by implementing a Health Insurance Marketplace where Americans can buy subsidized, regulated health insurance in a competitive private market.
ObamaCare doesnt create a government-run healthcare system. It greatly expands business for the private for-profit health insurance industry, creating about 12 million new customers. In other words ObamaCare regulates the free market, it doesn't replace it.
ObamaCare Myth: ObamaCare Takes Sides
"ObamaCare", officially titled the Affordable Care Act, was originally meant as a pejorative term to equate the bill with the current president in order to play politics U.S. health care reform. The truth is the Affordable Care Act is the result of a joint effort between both sides of the isle, health insurance companies and law makers and has been being worked on for decades. The law itself is based on "RomneyCare", The Massachusetts health care insurance reform law, St. 2006, c.58. "RomneyCare" was based on the individual mandate which was proposed by the Heritage Foundation in 1989. The individual mandate was championed by Republicans as alternative to single payer as it put individual responsibility at the forefront of health care reform.
ObamaCare Myth: ObamaCare Only Helps X People
The truth is ObamaCare helps everyone. Some of us might pay more, but everyone will be able to enjoy better quality health insurance and more rights and protections in regards to healthcare. When it comes to cost the rule of thumb is that the less you make the more the law helps you. Those who may pay more include individuals and families making over 400% of the poverty level and businesses with over 50 full-time employees making over $250,000.
Read more ObamaCare: Myths About Health Care Reform
