How to talk about Obamacare with your TeaParty relatives this Thanksgiving

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

How to talk about Obamacare with your TeaParty relatives this Thanksgiving:

Teapartier: "Obama's getting between me and my doctor."

the facts: Obama's getting between you and your unscrupulous insurance companies.  All new plans must cover 10 essential benefits like basic preventative care, maternity care and prescriptions. Now your insurance covers *actual* health care.


Teapartier: "Obamcare is canceling everyone's plans."

the facts: Actually, insurance companies are canceling plans, because they don't meet requirements for basic coverage - they're junk policies. Worse, the insurance companies are not informing customers about the affordable, quality insurance in the new available marketplace.


Teapartier: "Bureaucrats will decide who lives and who dies."

the facts: Before Obamacare, 25 million Americans with pre-existing conditions were uninsured. Now, insurance companies can't kick people off their plans just because they get sick.  That's going to *save* lives, ont end them.


Teapartier: "Michelle Bachmann said this would happen."

the facts: Please.  The website is being fixed. We can't go back to the dark days of insurance companies denying care or coverage and people going bankrupt to say healthy, just because of some temporarily glitchy website.

[Opsa]

Thank you Bob, for this timely public service announcement.

[pieces o nine]

Harrumph, harrumph.  Well said, Bob!   

[Griffin NoName]

Interesting. Here insurance excludes preventative care, maternity and prescriptions and pre-existing conditions - although the NHS does provide some of it.  Maybe we need Obamacare.