File it under irony or justice, but Obamacare is pushing up premiums at AARP.  AARP recently announced that AARP employees would see health insurance premiums go up partially due to the impact of Obamacare.

AARP sent an email to its employees stating that premiums would increase between 8 and 13 percent.  AARP also added to avoid a 40% tax imposed by Obamacare on high-cost Cadillac insurance plans, employees would see an increase in co-pays and deductibles.  Adding costs to the employee helps avoid the additional Obamacare tax.

According to an AP article by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar,  “Although the tax on so-called “Cadillac” health care plans doesn’t take effect for years, employers are already beginning to assess their potential exposure because it is hefty: at 40 percent of the value above $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for a family plan. The tax is intended as a savings measure, to prod employers and workers into more cost-efficient plans.”

I irony and justice in this is that the AARP pushed for and endorsed the passage of Obamacare which included the Cadillac Insurance Tax that is pushing up AARP employee’s health care costs.

The interesting thing here is that Obamacare was supposed to lower our health insurance costs.  To help pay for Obamacare, the government impossed the Cadillac Insurance plan tax.  With employers passing on the cost of that tax to employees, not only will the costs to employees go up, but the government will fall short on paying for the massive cost of Obamacare.  Heck of a job federal government.

According to a post by Michelle Malkin, we can probably expect to see AARP request a waiver to the Obamacare plan that AARP helped jam down our throats.  The question is, where do we get our waivers from Obamacare?

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty…

Senator John Ensign asked Thomas Barthold, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, what happens to a person refuses to pay the excise tax.  Barthold told Ensign that the failure to pay the excise tax would result in up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.  So it would seem that Obamacare will force you to purchase health insurance or go to jail.

Hot Air has the details of the exchange and a copy of the note that Barthold sent to Ensign.

This is exactly why our representatives and the American people need to be familiar with the contents of the bill.  Some people in congress seem to believe that if a bill was put forth by somebody in your party, you should just vote for it.

Do the American people really want to put people in jail for refusing to purchase health insurance and pay a fine?  On the plus side, those violators would receive tax payer funded health care while in jail.  One way or the other, Obama will make sure that everybody is covered.

The Whitehouse blog is telling supporters of Obama’s health care reform that there is disinformation about health care reform out there and they want your help in finding it.

These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help.

They ask that if you get any emails from friends or see things on the Internet that are “fishy”, please report it to flag@whitehouse.gov.  If I hadn’t seen this for myself, I would have thought somebody was trying to push some crazy conspiracy theory.

Here is one of those “fishy” things you can send them.  The president continues to assure the American people that you can keep your current coverage if you like it.  However, the text of HR 3200 clearly states that you can keep your coverage unless your insurance company adds anybody new to the plan or changes anything about the plan.  You can see the text on page 16 of the 1,018 page document.  Note that the link is to the official House document site and not another blog or website.

They way it is stated it would seem that if your employer hires another employee, they can’t enroll them in the same plan that you have or the plan is no longer grandfathered which then pushes you to the public plan.  It would seem that it would be the same if the insurer tried to change any of the terms of the plan such as adding or removing things that are covered.

I’ve sent a link to the house bill to White House blog stating that I found this “fishy” document on the Internet that seems to contradict many of the things that the president is saying in the daily television appearances.  I expect to be visited by uniformed ACORN police or men-in-black later today.

I would suggest that if you receive any email or find a web site supporting the take over of our private health-care system, you report it to the government as some sort of “fishy disinformation”.