Saturday, June 15, 2013

Pelosi On Obamacare: “I Don’t Remember Saying That Everybody Would Have A Lower Premium” – Pelosi In 2012: “Everybody Will Have Lower Rates”…

Weasel Zippers  If you can't defend a position, just talk it to death.

From the Weekly Standard:  "At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Nancy Pelosi responded to news that, contrary to earlier claims by Barack Obama and Pelosi herself, Obamacare will cause health insurance premiums to rise sharply for many people who purchase their own insurance in the individual market.

""I don't remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium," Pelosi said in response to a question from THE WEEKLY STANDARD. But during last year's presidential campaign, Pelosi said that because of Obamacare "everybody will have lower rates." Pelosi, the House minority leader, made the comment during a July 1, 2012 appearance on Meet the Press:"....

Under Obamacare, only people under the age of 30 can participate in the slightly cheaper catastrophic plan. So if you’re 40, your cheapest option is the bronze plan. In California, the median price of a bronze plan for a 40-year-old male non-smoker will be $261.
But on eHealthInsurance, the median cost of the five cheapest plans was $121. That is, Obamacare will increase individual-market premiums by an average of 116 percent.


Pelosi did not remember saying this?

Source for this post was Nincompoopery, at Always On Watch

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