Obama: ‘If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep Your Health Care Plan’: 10 States Where They Won’t Be Able to ‘Keep Your Health Care Plan’

Daily Caller reported: President Barack Obama famously promised, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” He later got even more specific.

“If you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have,” Obama said.

But as Obamacare’s rollout approaches, we have learned this is not true. Here are the ten states

1) California: 58,000 will lose their plans under Obamacare. The first bomb dropped in California with a mass exodus from the most populated state’s Obamacare exchange. Aetna, the country’s largest insurer, left first in July and was closely followed by UnitedHealth. Anthem Blue Cross pulled out of California’s Obamacare exchange for small businesses as well.

Fifty-four percent of Californians expect to lose their coverage, according to an August poll.

2) Missouri: Patients of the state’s largest hospital system — which spans 13 hospitals including the St. Louis Children’s Hospital — will not be covered by the largest insurer on Obamacare exchanges, Anthem BlueCross BlueShield. Anthem covers 79,000 patients in Missouri who may seek subsidies on Obamacare exchanges, but won’t be able to see any doctors in the BJC HealthCare system.

3) Connecticut: Aetna, the third largest insurer in the nation, won’t offer insurance on the Obamacare exchange in its own home state, where it was founded in 1850. The reason? “We believe the modification to the rates filed by Aetna will not allow us to collect enough premiums to cover the cost of the plans and meet the service expectations of our customers,” said Aetna spokesman Susan Millerick.

4) Maryland: 13,000 individuals covered by Aetna and its recently-purchased Coventry Health Care won’t be able to keep their insurance plans if they want Obamacare subsidies on the exchanges. Aetna and Coventry canceled plans to offer insurance in the exchange when state officials wouldn’t allow them to charge premiums high enough to cover costs.

5) South Carolina: 28,000 people were insured by Medical Mutual of Ohio, SC’s second-largest insurance company, until it decided to leave the state entirely in July due to Obamacare’s “vast and quite complex” new regulations. Company spokesman Ed Byers said Medical Mutual’s patients would be switched over to United Healthcare plans instead.

6) New York: Aetna pulled out of New York’s exchange in late August in an effort to keep their plans “financially viable,” said Aetna spokeswoman Cynthia Michener.

7) New Jersey: 1.1 million Aetna customers are at risk in New Jersey, where the leading insurer also won’t be a part of the exchange. Just 2,600 patients purchase individual plans with the company, but any looking to take advantage of subsidies on the exchange for unaffordable employer-based insurance won’t be able to do with Aetna.

8) Iowa: Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Iowa’s largest health insurer, decided not to offer plans in the Obamacare exchange. It sells 86 percent of Iowa’s individual health insurance plans.

9) Wisconsin: Two of the three largest insurers in the state won’t offer plans on the exchange. United Healthcare and Humana patients will have to get a new health insurer to buy insurance on Obamacare exchanges.

10) Georgia: Just five insurers are participating in Georgia’s Obamacare exchange. Medical Mutual of Ohio left Georgia and Indiana as well as South Carolina, due to Obamacare regulations. Aetna, along with Coventry, also decided against participating in the George health exchange.

See Cloture Compilation to find out which Senators voted for Cloture [and for Obamacare].

ABC Chief WH Correspondent: ‘Chances of a Government Shutdown at 99.9 Percent’

ABC’s chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl said he believes there’s a “99.9 percent” chance that the government shuts down on Monday.

When “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos noted in an interview Sunday with Karl that a shutdown late Monday looks “all but certain,” Karl concurred — and capped it with a percentage prediction.

“Positions have hardened. Time is running out,” Karl said. “I would now put the chances of a government shutdown at 99.9 percent.”

He then noted how swiftly the White House responded to the House measure: “Today Republicans in the House of Representatives moved to shut down the government,” Karl quoted press secretary Jay Carney as saying.

“The Senate absolutely will not pass what just passed in the House,” Karl adds. “And George, the Senate doesn’t get back into session until 2 tomorrow afternoon. That is ten hours before the government shuts down.”

Check out the exchange here:

http://www.mrctv.org/embed/123057

The Irony of it All: Mosque in California Receives ‘Threatening’ Note, Threat of Terrorism is Trumped by the Threat of a Non-Threatening Note

Walid Shoebat reported: Ever since 9/11/01, one of the most frustrating realities for westerners has been the deafening silence from ‘moderate’ Muslims. Now, a note taped to the front door of a Mosque in Murrieta, California is causing the mosque to spring into action… against those who want them to speak out against terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood in America wants Americans to believe that it rejects terrorism and is on the side of non-Muslim Americans. If so, what problem could the leaders of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley in Murrieta possibly have with this note being taped to their front door?

Via KABC (h/t BNI):

A troubling note was found taped on the front door of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley in Murrieta.

It was discovered on Sunday during evening prayer.

The note makes mention of the recent mall attack in Kenya and the suicide bombing at a church in Pakistan.

The note did not contain any specific threats, but police are investigating.

The Islamic Center is offering a reward for information on who may have left the note. {emphasis ours}

Call us crazy but where is the ICOTV when it comes to the victims of terrorism the authors of this note clearly want its leaders to speak out against. No, instead, the threat of terrorism is trumped by the threat in a non-threatening note.

Then again, perhaps a look into the ICOTV’s associations may help us understand why it has such a problem with denouncing Islamic terrorists. Check out the list of speakers it promoted, who spoke at a conference and banquet just this past March. Take note of the first four speakers who are listed:

Yasir Qadhi wants the U.S. Constitution to be supplanted by Sharia law.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj is an unindicted co-conspirator in the first World Trade Center attack. He is also connected to Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” who was convicted to life in prison for his role in that attack. Is it all that surprising to see the ICOTV object to a note that decries terrorism when it embraces a guy like Wahhaj?

Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi is the former president of the Islamic Society of North America who was embraced by the Bush administration in the days after 9/11.

Aside from cavorting with such nefarious characters, the ICOTV website features Hussam Ayloush on its Resources page. Ayloush is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), a Muslim Brotherhood front group. Last year, Ayloush defended Hamas and referred to Salam Al-Marayati – the Executive Director of the Muslim Publica Affairs Council (MPAC) as “one of the major mainstream American Muslim leaders.”

As for the note, perhaps the greatest irony is that police are investigating to find out who put it there instead of investigating the mosque itself.

This metaphor needs no explanation: