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Biden, 'If you like your health care plan … you can keep it'
[FoxNews] "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."That familiar pledge, made repeatedly over several years by former President Barack Obama, was named the 2013 "Lie of the Year" by fact-checking website Politifact, as millions of individuals lost their private insurance -- and had to switch to costlier options -- due to changes mandated by the Affordable Care Act. On Monday, Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden unveiled his own health care plan, and issued a similar-sounding promise while speaking at a presidential forum sponsored by AARP in Des Moines, Iowa. "I give people the option," Biden said, after dismissing his opponents' "Medicare-for-all" proposals, which would eliminate private health insurance entirely. "If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it." Biden added: "You get full coverage, and you can stay with your plan if you like it. You can stay with your employer-based plan, or you can move on. I think it's the quickest, most reasonable, rational and best way to get to universal coverage." Biden has said his proposal would add a "public option," or government insurance plan, to existing exchanges that sell private insurance. The "Medicare-like" plan that would be available to anyone ‐ including the 150 million-plus Americans now covered by job-based insurance, a group now ineligible for exchange-based policies. Posted by: Beavis 2019-07-17 |
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