How many times is she going to make this ridiculous argument?
(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that health insurance premiums will go up under Obamacare because people who did not buy insurance before, and thus had no premium at all, will now be forced to buy insuracce.
She also urged people to be “optimistic” about Obamacare. […]
“But if you don’t have health insurance, and you don’t qualify for a subsidy, and you’re mandated to have health insurance, yes, you will have an increase,” she said.
“I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium, because everybody in the country doesn’t have health insurance,” Pelosi continued. “So how could it be lower? But the fact is, the value of what you get for the cost that you pay is a reduction in cost to you.”
“But for everybody it is going to be, again, a liberation, a freedom,” she said, adding that under Obamacare young people could pursue careers as writers or photographers.
“Some of the examples that we heard would be somebody who thought she was invincible getting diagnosed with breast cancer and now telling us she’s going to spend the next 20 years, monthly payments on her credit card, to pay off her medical bills at the time,” Pelosi said. “Would a person like that, hopefully not diagnosed yet, paying something in and end up being better off? I think so.”