When Obamacare is implemented, on January 1, 2014, one of two things is going to happen — your monthly premiums are going to skyrocket or your coverage will be worse. Despite the prestidigitation offered by Covered California, cursory analysis shows that San Diegans are looking at much higher insurance premiums next year.
Let me repeat that. San Diegans will be paying much higher health insurance premiums next year. That ain’t good for Scott Peters.
Here’s why it ain’t good for Peters — he owns ObamaCare now. Despite all of his posturing as a centrist, Peters had an opportunity to repeal this tax and work for meaningful health care reform. But Peters put health insurance company profits above his constituents’ well being. He voted to implement the largest tax hike on the American people. We might as well call it PetersCare now.
Three years later, more Americans dislike PetersCare than like it. House Republicans know this, too. If PetersCare was popular, Republicans wouldn’t hold votes to try and repeal it. Each and every time the House Republicans hold this vote, out-of-the-mainstream Congressmen, like Peters, have to reaffirm their commitment to locking in insurance company profits on the backs of their voters.
Scott Peters is the reason your health insurance premiums will be higher next year. Remember that when you vote in June and November.