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Obamacare gives away free samples to get people hooked on government dictated healthcare ----------------------------- That is the "brilliance" of Obamacare law
Obamacare is designed to give away free samples in the first few years to get enough people hooked on the concept, to insure political support of Obamacare health care delivery structure even if the "free samples" are reduced or cut back to near zero in the future.
The largest free samples were the expansion of Welfare Medicaid
and the "massive hidden federal government subsidies" going directly to the insurance companies on a policy by policy sold basis, for the hidden benefit of some, but not others, of those buying insurance under the new Obamacare regulations.
Welfare Medicaid expansion is being rolled out nicely in the Blue States the Democrats are dependent on, the numbers of people predicted are not there yet, but they are coming along nicely. When you are giving away a product that is entirely free, forcing people by federal law to take it ( or pay real money to buy something else), and sending out cancellation notices that force people to make a change, the numbers are going to come.
The delivery of the hidden subsidies is not going so well, because the delivery system, the Obamacare Insurance Market Exchange websites in the 36 states being served by the U.S. Government designed and programmed Obamacare Exchange Website are not fully working, and not providing the illusion they were designed to provide.
These websites were suppose to hide the true cost of the insurance they were delivering and make it appear they were delivering insurance at a much lower price than the private market.
The deception in this was that the
exchanges were designed to "re-sell" the exact same private insurance policy as the private market was selling,
but it was suppose to appear to the shopper that the government run exchange could deliver it for a much lower price ( on average ). In fact it was designed to allow the media and politicians to imply that the Obamacare policies were "different policies" that were being delivered for a much lower "average price" than the comparable private policies were.
The main "business" purpose of the Obamacare websites ( a different website for each state ) was to "link up" premium price subsidies being paid by the federal government directly to the private insurance companies, ( the hidden links were between shopper & the policy they were considering and the private insurance company that was actually selling it), without the shopper realizing what the true cost of the insurance policy was.
Even though the annual deductibles and co-pays were going up, that would be reported by the Media and perceived by the shoppers as the insurance companies fault - since this was happening for both the "private insurance" market and on the Obamacare market,
but the Media would pound home the fact that the average policy premium prices were much lower on the Government Exchanges than in the private market. The other costs ( annual deductibles, hospital co-pays, doctor co-pays ) would be exactly the same because the government would be "re-selling" exactly the same policies as the Private Insurance Companies.
President Obama, must at all costs, find a way to deliver those federal government subsidies to the Private Insurance Companies and to make it appear to the purchaser of these policies that the price of these policies is lower than it actually is.
President Obama and the Obama administration is indeed implementing a plan B to sell the "Obamacare policies" directly from the Insurance Companies with the subsidy already built into the prices, as noted here:
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