US President
Barack Obama (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - Walaupun rakaman video lebih daripada 2 dozen
menunjukkan sebalik-nya, Presiden Obama berkata bahawa dia tidak pernah berjanji
Amerika mereka akan dapat mengekalkan pelan penjagaan kesihatan mereka di bawah
Akta ‘Affordable Care Act’.
Bercakap kepada penyokong di Washington pada Isnin,
Obama mendakwa bahawa pada masa lalu, beliau berkata, “Anda boleh menyimpan
[pelan anda] jika ia tidak berubah sejak undang-undang yang telah diluluskan.”
Walau bagaimanapun, laporan Caller Daily bahawa
terdapat sekurang- kurangnya 29 video yang menunjukkan Presiden meninggalkan
perkataan penting, “jika ia tidak berubah” Sebaliknya, beliau jelas menyatakan
berkali-kali bahawa “jika anda suka pelan penjagaan kesihatan anda, anda akan
dapat mengekalkan pelan penjagaan kesihatan anda, tempoh.”
Baru-baru ini, Wall Street Journal melaporkan bahawa
beberapa pegawai White House telah kebimbangan tentang membuat apa-apa ikrar,
tetapi yang akhirnya pentadbiran memutuskan untuk bergerak ke hadapan dengan
ia.
“Pemudahan dan kemudahan penjelasan adalah premium,
dan itu adalah benar sepanjang proses tersebut,” Jon Favreau , yang sebelum ini
penulis ucapan kanan Obama, memberitahu kertas.
Obama denies he made a promise that was
videotaped
two dozen times . . .
Despite more than two-dozen video recordings showing
otherwise, President Obama said that he never promised Americans they’d be able
to keep their health care plans under the Affordable Care Act.
Speaking to supporters in Washington on Monday,
Obama claimed that in the past, he said, “You could keep [your plan] if it
hasn’t changed since the law was passed.”
However, the Daily Caller reports that there are at
least 29 videos showing the president leaving out the crucial words, “if it
hasn’t changed.” Instead, he unambiguously stated numerous times that “if you
like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan,
period.”
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that some
White House officials were worried about making such a pledge, but that
ultimately the administration decided to move forward with it.
“Simplification and ease of explanation were a
premium, and that was true throughout the process,” Jon Favreau, formerly
Obama’s senior speech writer, told the paper.
Minggu lepas telah menyaksikan kebanjiran cerita
tentang penjagaan kesihatan individu merancang dibatalkan oleh
syarikat-syarikat insurans. Sebagai Washington Post berkata, 7-12 Juta Amerika
di pasaran individu pada risiko kehilangan liputan, manakala pemanggil Harian
mendakwa satu 150,000 pasaran kumpulan kecil tambahan merancang di Kentucky
telah dibatalkan.
Menurut Obama, kehilangan rancangan-rancangan ini
akan dibuat oleh manfaat peningkatan yang baru, yang boleh dibeli di pasar pada
HealthCare.gov atau melalui telefon.
“Jika kita telah membenarkan rancangan-rancangan
lama [terus] . . . maka kita telah melanggar janji yang lebih penting -
memastikan bahawa rakyat Amerika mendapat akses kepada penjagaan kesihatan yang
tidak meninggalkan mereka satu penyakit dari masalah kewangan,” katanya. “Jadi,
garis bawah adalah, adalah bahawa kita membuat pasaran insurans yang lebih baik
untuk semua orang.”
Merumitkan hakikat bahawa rakyat Amerika boleh
membeli pelan lain tidak hanya yang HealthCare.gov terus mengalami isu-isu
teknikal. Laporan baru permukaan yang menunjukkan beberapa syarikat insurans
adalah individu yang mengelirukan dalam usaha untuk memaksa mereka ke dalam
liputan mahal.
Menurut laporan oleh Bercakap Points Memo, syarikat
insurans Kentucky berasaskan Humana “telah menolak pelanggan ke dalam pelan
insurans Humana yang lebih mahal daripada pelan Humana telah menjual di pasaran
ObamaCare , tanpa bantuan kewangan di bawah Obamcare.”
Pelaksanaan Akta ‘Affordable Care Act’ adalah
mungkin untuk menghadapi beberapa masalah tidak kira, tetapi landskap semasa
seolah-olah menjadi salah satu di mana rakyat Amerika keliru dengan laman web
berfungsi, janji-janji yang dibuat oleh pentadbiran, dan muslihat oleh
syarikat-syarikat insurans.
Dalam ucapannya, Presiden menafikan katanya kepada
Amerika mereka akan dapat mengekalkan rancangan mereka, tetapi mengaku bahawa
kesilapan telah dibuat, seperti pengurusan bungled daripada HealthCare.gov .
“Kami mendapat [Obamacare] dilakukan. Sekarang, mari
kita menghadapinya, banyak daripada kita tidak sedar bahawa lulus undang-undang
itu adalah sebahagian mudah,” katanya.
The last week has seen a flood of stories about
individual health care plans being cancelled by insurance companies. As the
Washington Post noted, 7-12 million Americans on the individual market are at
risk of losing coverage, while the Daily Caller claims an additional 150,000
small-group market plans in Kentucky are being cancelled.
According to Obama, the loss of these plans will be
made up by the increased benefits of new ones, which can be purchased in the
marketplaces on HealthCare.gov or via the telephone.
“If we had allowed these old plans [to continue]…
then we would have broken an even more important promise – making sure that
Americans gain access to health care that doesn’t leave them one illness away from
financial ruin,” he said. “So the bottom line is, is that we are making the
insurance market better for everybody.”
Complicating the fact that Americans can shop for
other plans isn’t just that HealthCare.gov continues to suffer from technical
issues. New reports are surfacing that show some insurance companies are
misleading individuals in an attempt to push them into costlier coverage.
According to a report by Talking Points Memo, the
Kentucky-based insurance company Humana “was pushing customers into a Humana
insurance plan that was more expensive than the plan Humana was selling on the
Obamacare marketplace, without the financial help available under Obamcare.”
The rollout of the Affordable Care Act was likely to
run into some trouble regardless, but the current landscape seems to be one in
which Americans are confused by a dysfunctional website, promises made by the
administration, and maneuvering by insurance companies.
In his remarks, the president denied he told
Americans they’d be able to keep their plans, but admitted that mistakes have
been made, such as the bungled management of HealthCare.gov.
“We got [Obamacare] done. Now, let’s face it, a lot
of us didn’t realize that passing the law was the easy part,” he said.
