Sandy Praeger, the RINO Insurance Commissioner for the state of Kansas, has stepped into the 2nd Congressional District between the incumbent, U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, and her Democrat Party challenger, Margie Wakefield of Lawrence.
According to the Topeka Capital-Journal on October 24, "Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said in an interview information shared by Jenkins on Medicare cuts, premium rates and policy cancellations was 'just across-the-board wrong.'" Praeger was then quoted as saying the following: "
No polices have been canceled due to [the Affordable Care Act]."
That is a flat-out lie. The fact that millions of Americans had their policies canceled due to Obamacare was the basis for Barack Obama's oft-stated claim, i.e., "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," being named as PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2013. According to PolitiFact, "So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong."
The cancellations did not stop in 2013. According to Politico on October 17, 2014, "More than 22,000 Coloradans were informed in the past month that their health coverage will be canceled at the end of the year, state insurance authorities disclosed this week, a spike in cancellations already roiling the state’s fierce campaigns for the Senate and governor’s seat." Further:
Health plan cancellations in late 2013 exploded into a national controversy that only subsided when President Barack Obama rewrote Obamacare rules to let states and insurers revive canceled health plans and continue them for up to three years.
Colorado was one of those states, but the Rocky Mountain State only agreed to let substandard plans continue through 2015. Ten insurers have agreed to continue their plans through 2015, Salazar noted, but the nearly 200,000 people covered by those insurers face the same cancellation notices next year if they haven’t obtained coverage that meets Obamacare standards by then.
Make no mistake about it--these plans are being canceled due to Obamacare. Praeger lied to the Capital-Journal, which should surprise no one since she has a long history of lying to advance her left-wing agendas.
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