In yet other indication of how harmful liberal Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) and President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul is to middle-class Nebraskans, Washington newspaper The Hill reports today that one of the law’s major provisions is poised to burden families with higher insurance costs:
A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014. Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this could dramatically undercut support for the law, which is already unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections.
“Ben Nelson ignored the best interests of his state when he gave President Obama the crucial 60th vote to pass ObamaCare, and now middle-class Nebraskans are being forced to pay for his liberal Washington agenda,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox. “Nebraskans will hold Senator Nelson and President Obama accountable for this massive health care overhaul that raises their costs, hikes their taxes, cuts their Medicare, saddles them with mandates from Washington, and puts America even deeper in debt.”
Nelson’s fellow Washington Democrat Nancy Pelosi famously declared that we had to pass ObamaCare to find out what’s in it. Today, thanks to Obama, Pelosi and Nelson, we find that Nebraska families will be forced – under pain of financial penalties – to buy coverage they cannot afford.
Notably, the Obama-Nelson health care overhaul also raises taxes by $570 billion, cuts Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund the federal government’s expansion into other areas of the health care market, imposes an onerous “individual mandate” on every American, and burdens state governments like Nebraska’s with at least $118 billion in unfunded Medicaid liabilities through the first decade of full implementation (through 2023). The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the law, known as ObamaCare, will increase federal deficits by $260 billion through 2019.
