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   From: traitor@barackobama.com   
      
   The government is in shutdown, and the first days of Obamacare   
   are here. October first saw the opening of the healthcare   
   exchange and the launch of the exchange website.   
      
   After its launch, the website came crashing down.   
      
   High traffic and severe technical problems have brought the   
   website to a standstill.   
      
   This has made the unpopular law even more unpopular and has   
   effected President Obama’s now all-time low approval rating,   
   which is now at 37%.   
      
   With the public now focusing on Obamacare and trying to find the   
   merits among the many faults, we are going to go back and   
   evaluate a couple of healthcare promises that the President made:   
      
   “You can keep your current plan”   
      
   As comforting as this statement was when President Obama made   
   it, he had no idea of the economics behind the scenes. Take a   
   look at just a couple of companies like IBM and Time Warner.   
      
   IBM is now dropping tens of thousands of Retirees from their   
   health insurance plan, and telling them to find another provider   
   of insurance.   
      
   Companies are now beginning to cut the hours of their employee’s   
   in order to avoid the 30 hour full-time threshold. For larger   
   companies, once the 30 hour work week is passed, they have to   
   provide healthcare to their employees.   
      
   Take a look at the fast food industry. Companies across the   
   country are cutting employee’s hours to part-time in order to   
   save on insurance costs.   
      
   “Lower health care premiums by $2,500”   
      
   If you want the answer to this question, ask people around you   
   if their premiums have gone down.   
      
   Across the country the exact opposite is happening.   
      
   Premiums are rising, and its foolish for the president to say   
   that after adding millions of new people to the health care   
   systems the premiums will go down.   
      
   According to Forbes, Obamacare will increase the premium of an   
   individual by 99% for men, and 62% for women.   
      
       
      
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