Background:
You will be shocked at how ignorant Americans are - What Americans don't know and don't understand is an obstacle to progress

It's true. When it comes to the GOP, to whom Fox News/Biz pays over a million dollars a year (i.e. The money trail), they can't hear of any fault. But then, if the goal of war is misinformation and the GOP is the "War Party" then Fox Corp IS accomplishing it's job rather well. Meet the cult of the misinformed who can't handle an iota of negative feedback, the channel of 'hear no evil' (as ONLY the OTHER side is evil and they are the saints!)...

Affordable Horror Story - President Obama qualifies his formerly definitive statements regarding the Affordable Care Act, and his opponents lie like motherf**kers about its effects.  (06:09):

At 24 secs: 'If you like your plan you will be able to keep it' Obama

Later, Obama explains it with a sleight of words as politicians do... the difference is that when this is done under a GOP administration (i.e.The War Party) then it leads to a war for oil, deaths painted as "OK" depending on GOP involvement, an increase in terrorism, assassination squads, sex for oil (& god knows what else). But under the Democrats (Welfare Party) these slight of word techniques are used to help people ... even if done in a more expensive & inefficient way... which is normal for the Federal Government, by the way. [ In an case, I make so little money I probably qualify for an exception, so no healthcare for me :( ]. 

{4 Ron Paul Libertarians: So how can the GOP & Democrats be considered to be 'equal in evil' when one helps you & your kids get healthcare - though it may be expensive - and the other kills you? Also, when have Cheney or Bush EVER apologized... infact, apologizing was anathema in the last election season a well i.e. GOP kept saying Obama shouldn't apologize & now he did}

Also this policy was made by lobbyists so it was bound to have problem... afterall, we have a corporate welfare system which the Democrats & Republicans are both a part of, the choices we face when dealing with them is... the GOP is supported by Oil & War factories so they will promote war & the other side more by welfare dominated issues (except the GOP types pretending to be Democrat, a normal political strategy). It's not a good system but choosing war over welfare to protect a hypothetical future for children that don't exit when we ARE facing big problems now is delusional. Ron Paul has been saying for over 30 years that the inflation would destroy the country & it hasn't (we even went through period of deflation - that said, cost of living VS wages HAS risen). It still may but it will probably not happen in our lifetimes unless we let the war machine get out of hand... so we need to organize our prioritizes. 
So on one side you have major lies leading to immediate deaths & the other minor lies that end up helping you. 

"if it hasn't changed since the law has passed" Obama i.e. if the plan is MORE extensive or has LESS benefits than under the Affordable Care Act, in other words, the Affordable Care Act sets a minimum level of standards for health care insurance, like saying Food can't have radioactive ingredients or like saying cars must have working brakes & not cause enough pollution to kill you while your idling in your garage.

Here Is A Video From The Matrix (Engineering Level Conversation) Which Accidentally Explains Why "Controls/Regulations" Are Needed By Human Societies To Manage It' Bureaucratic Systems (I shouldn't have to post this video a an explanation, it should be common sense .... even if the Constitution didn't explicitly say Government was of "we the people" & why would people we elect to office want to hide thier discussions from us? If I was senator, do such stuff. Anyways. - Alternative viewing for video.)... 

By The Way...

Republicans have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they will listen to thier Constituents and do whatever they can to make their constituents panic & feel worse about thier lives. Helping thier constituents after listening to them is OBVIOUSLY NOT A PRIORITY for them (I, of course, would listen to my constituents if I was a Senator and seek to solve thier issues NOT cause more problems but I'm more of a Ron Paul Republican not a War Party or a Koch Brother... "Republican")

Article:

GOP’s latest, desperate Obamacare strategy: Try to confuse Americans! Rather than field inquiries or provide constituents with information, Republicans want them mixed up by Obamacare

If you’ve received a letter from your health insurance company advising you that your plan has been canceled because of Obamacare (and perhaps offering to shift you into much more expensive coverage) you’re probably wondering what remedies are available to you.

In an ideal world you could call your member of Congress or one of your senators and ask his or her staff to help you sort through your options.

But if your representatives are Republicans, the very idea of providing you assistance runs at cross-purposes with their desire to turn you into a talking point.

Introducing… #YOURSTORY!

It’s a new campaign organized by the Senate Republican conference to turn your frustration, anger and/or confusion over the Affordable Care Act into an anecdote for a floor speech or a sound bite for a reporter whose job it is to find some Obamacare “losers.”

Now obviously most of the submissions Senate Republicans will field will come from constituents who are already unfavorably disposed toward the law. And their stories will be relayed to other constituents who are unfavorably disposed to the law. So the public relations value of #YOURSTORY is probably pretty marginal. {My comment: The Republicans are listening to thier constituents & creating an echo chamber to keep thier constituents misinformed}

But consider for a moment what it implies about the GOP’s commitment to providing responsible constituent services.

Recall Dianne Barrette, who did an about-face on Obamacare once its benefits were explained to her clearly and responsibly. But it wasn’t a member of Congress who provided that assistance. It certainly wasn’t any of the Republicans who helped turn her into the embodiment of the Affordable Care Act’s failure and President Obama’s broken promises. It was a reporter.

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Article Extract on the extremely slow & inefficient rollout of the healthcare program (Libertarians: ObamaCare VS 2 trillion spent on unconstitutional wars... & this is the greater evil? You help the war party & thier Fox Business stooges? Shame on yall.)

Health insurance cancellations are no surprise - A leading expert on health reform policy explains some of the most common misconceptions about Obamacare

Q. What’s your take on the coverage cancellations arriving in mailboxes around the country?

A. It was always known that the ACA would outlaw millions of existing individual or non-group health insurance policies.  From a policy wonk perspective, that was a no-brainer.  It was self-evident in the law in March 2010 and confirmed in subsequent rules and analyses.  Also obvious all along was that consumers would face a very different marketplace under the ACA, with some seeing lower premiums (including me), some seeing larger premiums, and most everyone seeing higher deductibles, higher co-pays, and a narrower choice of providers.

Quantifying the impact of ACA on the individual — estimating the number of people affected — was always tough.  Whether it would cause 60 percent or 80 percent of individual plans to be cancelled was hard to estimate because data on individual coverage is hard to come by, rules and products varied by state, the ACA grandfathering rules came out slowly and in pieces, and even things like the essential health benefit package varies a bit by state.  Also, not all these policies expire on December 31.

What’s frustrating is how it took three and a half years, the failed launch of the federal exchange, and the news media starting the question the administration’s core talking points for anyone to focus on this. Whether you like or dislike the ACA policies, the 19.4 million Americans in the various parts of individual market deserved a heads up.

Q. Could this have been prevented?

A. From a regulatory perspective, health insurers in the individual market have no choice but to discontinue non-compliant policies and, if they wish to keep business, offer new, compliant policies.  Health insurance is a binding contract.  Insurers can’t merely transfer people.  They have to cancel policies that no longer meet federal and state law, give notice, and then try to sell people into the new one policies. Having said this, the new policies will generally be more expensive.  The ACA requires people to buy a richer benefit package – it only permits sale of the richer benefit packages.  You can argue that this is better for society but there is no free lunch and it does eliminate choices many consumers were fine with.

The higher cost sharing – deductibles and co-payments – that many are seeing (including me) is an inevitable byproduct of the ACA insurance market rules, the brave new actuarial risks of the post-ACA marketplace, and competition based on premiums and brand.

Q. You’ve been particularly critical of the administration’s transparency and follow-through on its own rules.

A. Presidential executive orders have long required cost estimates and impact analyses for every major proposed or final rule.  In Executive Order 13563, President Obama reiterated the longstanding requirement and further directed each federal agency {My comment: How many of thee federal agencies are controlled by corporation stooges and/or GOP people?} “… to use the best available techniques to quantify anticipated present and future benefits and costs as accurately as possible.” A Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) must be prepared for rules with economically significant effects — anything with an impact of $100 million or more in any one year.  Obviously, every ACA rule had an impact of over $100 million.

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From Fox News:

One man's ObamaCare nightmare

Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail.

"When I saw the letter when I came home from work," Andy said, describing the large red wording on the envelope from his insurance carrier, "(it said) 'your action required, benefit changes, act now.' Of course I opened it immediately."

It had stunning news. Insurance for the Mangiones and their two boys,which they bought on the individual market, was going to almost triple in 2014 --- from $333 a month to $965.

The insurance carrier made it clear the increase was in order to be compliant with the new health care law.

"This isn't a Cadillac plan, this isn't even a silver plan," Mangione said, referring to higher levels of coverage under ObamaCare.

"This is a high deductible plan where I'm assuming a lot of risk for my health insurance for my family. And nothing has changed, our boys are healthy-- they're young --my wife is healthy. I'm healthy, nothing in our medical history has changed to warrant a tripling of our premiums.

"Well I'm the one that does the budget,” said his wife. "Eventually I've got that coming down the pike that I gotta figure out what we're gonna cut what we're gonna do, to afford a $1,000 a month premium."

Their insurance company, Humana, declined to comment, but the notice to the Mangiones carried this paragraph:

" If your policy premium increased, you should know this isn't unique to Humana -- premium increases generally will occur industry-wide.

"Increases aren't based on your individual claims or changes in health status," it continued. "Many other factors go in to your premium including: ACA compliance, including the addition of new essential health benefits."

ACA, of course, is the abbreviation for the President's new law, the Affordable Care Act -- which for the Mangiones will be anything but affordable because the law adds a new tax on every insurance policy and requires a list of additional benefits the Mangiones didn’t want to pay for.

Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for American Health Insurance Plans, which represents insurers,explained that "for people who currently choose to purchase a high deductible, low premium policy that's more affordable for them, they are now being required to add all these new benefits to their policy.

That," he says, "is also going to add to the cost of their health insurance premiums."

This comes amid a huge debate over whether ObamaCare will raise or lower insurance rates.

For the Mangiones, that answer is abundantly clear.

Quote 1: The historic segmentation of media markets is said to have allowed voters to surround themselves in closed and ideologically extreme social worlds. The influx of money into politics following the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 50 (2010), is said to have given an edge to ultraconservative candidates whose policy proposals flatter the pocketbook interests of the very richest Americans.

Quote 2: The proposals of the new Congress had little in common with the revolutionary slogans of 1776, but many of them would be familiar to activists who had participated in the grassroots uprisings on behalf of the rich in the twentieth century.

On January 5, for example, House Republicans introduced a “balanced budget amendment” that was really a tax limitation amendment

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