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Broken promise: Obamacare cancels almost 20,000 Kansas health care plans
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CANCELED: Almost 20,000 Kansas health insurance plans will be canceled because of Obamacare, and that figure is only going to rise in the coming months.

By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — As a result of Obamacare, nearly 19,500 Kansas health care plans will be canceled in the coming months, forcing individuals to purchase an Affordable Care Act-compliant plan either privately or on the federal insurance exchange.

And it’s almost certain to be more expensive, said Aetna health care spokesperson Cynthia Michener.

Way back in 2009, when Obamacare was still a hope in the president’s mind and an unknown entity to the general public, Barack Obama made his now infamous pledge: “If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen in the future.”

Figures released by Kansas health insurance providers have shown it to be a bold misstatement, if not an outright lie.

Spokespersons with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City told Kansas Watchdog that large swaths of Kansas insurance contracts will be canceled — they prefer the term “non-renewed” — at the end of 2013 because they don’t meet coverage requirements set forth by the ACA.

Individuals can only keep such plans if they were in place prior to 2010, allowing them to be grandfathered in under the provisions of the health care law.

While the current figure of nearly 19,500 impending cancellations is staggering, it’s only just the beginning. Michener said Aetna, the parent company for Coventry Health Care, doesn’t have a current count of how many contracts will not be renewed in the Sunflower State. Additionally, Kansas Watchdog has yet to receive a response from numerous other, smaller health insurance providers operating in Kansas.

For now, there’s no telling just how many Kansans will be forced off their plans because of Obamacare. Also, keep in mind this poignant fact: The nearly 19,500 cancellations only refer to contracts, which can cover multiple individuals. If we’re defining cancellations by sheer number of persons affected, well, the sky’s the limit.

Mary Beth Chambers, corporate communications manager for BCBSKS, said the group started sending out cancellation notices in September. She said the result has been “a mixed bag. Customer service is getting calls from people who need to understand why this is happening, so we’re explaining.”

So, what exactly is that explanation? Michener said Obamacare mandates a base-level of coverage for health care plans, ranging from the inclusion of substance abuse services to prescription drugs and mental health. And even if you’re a 59-year-old single male, you’ll still be required to carry maternity and newborn care coverage.

“Health insurers will be required to cover more of the cost of care, which is good news for the uninsured and individuals with pre-existing conditions,” Michener said. “However, richer benefits will often result in higher premiums for many consumers who currently purchase health insurance on their own.”

Chambers has been reluctant to say whether Kansas consumers will pay a higher price because of Obamacare.

“As a habit we do not give out average premium costs because there are so many varying factors in figuring a premium that it is impossible,” Chambers told the Topeka Capitol-Journal. “In this case it would not be an apple-to-apple comparison because the benefits are different. Also, how the premium is built for a person is totally different.”

BCBSKC only operates in two counties — Johnson and Wyandotte — while BCBSKS serves the rest of Kansas.

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Paul Ryan: The Mythical Promise Of Obamacare Doomed Me And Mitt Romney

Sahil Kapur June 14, 2013, 1:10 PM

Former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told conservatives Friday that Obamacare helped President Obama defeat Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, decrying the “empty promises” of the law that hadn’t yet been implemented.

“This was our challenge that Mitt Romney and I had in this last election,” Ryan said in a speech at the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, DC. “We had to argue against the promise and the rhetoric of President Obama. The great soaring rhetoric, all of the empty promises.”

“Remember in his first term, in his first two years, he passed his program but didn’t implement his program,” he said. “Now in the second term, we are seeing it implemented and it’s pretty darn ugly. We are seeing the assault on our liberties.”

The Republican congressman from Wisconsin and House Budget Committee chairman went on to argue that the Affordable Care Act was an example of “big government assaulting our First Amendment rights” when it comes to religious liberty.

He cited the mandate under the law that employer health insurance plans include contraception without co-payments for female employees — a rule that was announced early in 2012 and became an issue in the presidential campaign.

“Obamacare says that if you believe in the social teaching of your Church, if you disagree, you know, with abortifacients, abortion-inducing drugs, it doesn’t matter,” Ryan said. “This is what the federal government is demanding.” (The rule he was referring to involves contraceptives, which prevent — not terminate — pregnancies.)

Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur is a congressional reporter for TPM. He previously covered politics and public policy for numerous publications including The Guardian and The Huffington Post. He can be reached at sahil [at] talkingpointsmemo.com.

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JEDDAH | Sun Jun 2, 2013 12:59pm EDT





JEDDAH (Reuters) – Yemen gave a qualified welcome on Sunday to President Barack Obama’s promise to lift a ban on repatriating Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, saying he now had to back up his words with actions.




Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi said his government was building a “rehabilitation center” to house Yemenis who have been detained at the U.S. camp in Cuba for more than a decade.




Obama promised last month to end the ban on transferring Yemenis back home, one of the main obstacles to clearing out the detention camp, and altered the rules for U.S. drone strikes.




Qirbi said that Obama’s announcement “brings hope to families of the detainees in Guantanamo and to the detainees themselves who for 12 years have been in prison and have lost hope of getting out of Guantanamo”.




“Obama now has to really put his words into actions,” he told reporters in the Saudi city of Jeddah. “We will take (up) with the authorities in Washington how we can start the process based, of course, on the conditions that may be set by the Americans.”




Of the 86 detainees who have been cleared for transfer or release from Guantanamo, 56 are from Yemen where al Qaeda’s regional wing is active. Most of them were captured more than a decade ago following the 2001 attacks on the United States.




Repatriation of Yemeni prisoners was halted in 2010 after a man trained by militants in Yemen attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound plane in 2009 with a bomb concealed in his underwear.




However, Obama laid out conditions on May 23 for removing the moratorium including the construction of a rehabilitation center for militants in Yemen.




Qirbi said the government was getting ready to take the detainees. “We are now in preparation of the rehabilitation center for the detainees,” he said after a meeting with Gulf foreign and finance ministers.




In the same speech, Obama said drone strikes could be launched only when a threat was “continuing and imminent” and would primarily be directed by the Defense Department instead of the Central Intelligence Agency.




Qirbi said drone strikes against suspected al Qaeda figures were unpopular in Yemen due to civilian casualties. “But they are at times a necessity… I think the conditions he has set will make sure these drone attacks are used in a proper manner.”




On Saturday local officials in southern Yemen said seven suspected militants had been killed in two drone strikes that morning.




(Reporting By Angus McDowall; editing by David Stamp)





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Close the illegal prison in Guantanamo. Try them stateside and if guilty imprison them @ any prison USA.




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