Opinion

Paying a premium price: ObamaCare is unaffordable

The Issue: President Obama’s reluctance to admit that ObamaCare will increase costs for beneficiaries.

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The growing chasm between President Obama’s promise that ObamaCare would save families on health-insurance premiums and the reality of premiums rising by double-digit percentages because of his “Affordable” Care Act is undeniable (“ObamaCare Ugliness That O Can’t Admit,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, Aug. 14).

Its economic irrationality has rational people fleeing for the exits while its former cheerleaders cling to special exemptions as if they were Tea Partiers “clinging to guns and religion.”

Federal command and control of health care “bends the cost curve” in the wrong direction. The taxes needed to prop up such programs will further squeeze those they purport to help. And “skyrocketing” costs will mean restricted access to effective services.

Ray Arroyo

Westwood, NJ

Obama said: “No current beneficiaries should see their basic benefits reduced.” Isn’t there anybody out there willing to demand accountability from this mannequin in a suit about his support of the chained Consumer Price Index and cuts to Medicare he repeatedly promised to keep off the table? Or question his betrayal not only of 55 million retirees but the millions more throughout the US who will someday retire?

The Republicans used to attack him just for breathing, so what happened? Is it because he can’t run again, or is it because they instigated the chained CPI and cuts to Medicare in the first place?

Thomas Savino

Brooklyn

Lowry claims Obama can’t admit health-insurance premiums will increase.

He won’t admit it in speeches but has admitted as much by his actions when he provided waivers to his cronies, Congress members, their staffers and unions.

ObamaCare was deemed unsustainable by the CBO, by economists and by think tanks from Day One. A member of the British Parliament even wrote an opinion article warning Americans not to establish a socialized healthcare system.

Congress ignored the warnings and shoved the monstrosity down America’s throat, so now it lies to the public. Americans would do well to punish these lawmakers in 2014.

Elio Valenti

Brooklyn