Congress Should Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate the Obamacare Fraud on America

Mitt Romney is a modest and measured man, so when he accuses Barack Obama of being "dishonest" in what he has said about Obamacare, we should pay attention. Sunday on Meet the Press, Romney said : "He told people that they could keep their insurance and that was not the truth." The 2012 presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor said the President "failed to learn the lessons" that came from his state's groundbreaking 2006 health care law, on which Obamacare is based. "The most important lesson the president, I think, failed to learn was, you have to tell the American people the truth," Romney said. "And when he told the American people that you could keep your health insurance if you wanted to keep that plan - period, he said that time and again - he wasn't telling the truth....He went out as a centerpiece of his campaign and as a centerpiece of Obamacare over the last several years saying time and time again that fundamental to his plan was the right people would have to keep their insurance plan, and he knew that was not the case." Obama's "fundamental dishonesty" about his signature health care law, Romney said, has "undermined the president's credibility" and "put in peril the whole foundation of his second term." "We've got to have a president that can lead, and right now he cannot do so," Romney said. Recalling the 2012 campaign, the former Republican nominee said : "No one could have worked harder than myself and my family did....Frankly, I was concerned that if the president were reelected, the economy would continue to dwindle along, we would continue to lose credibility around the world, the American people would find it harder and harder to get jobs....And we're seeing those things happen before our very eyes." ~~~~~ Karl Rove added more validation to Romney's characterization and the national experience with Obamacare when he appeared on Fox News Sunday : "He [Obama] knew there would be problems with Obamacare before the rollout but they 'hoped to skate by' as issues began bubbling to the surface following the October 1 rollout," the Republican strategist said. "These problems are going to continue....These problems were known in advance, and they hoped to skate by them." He said while the Department of Health and Human Services estimated 20% of Americans would lose their healthcare coverage in the wake of Obamacare, some studies show the number as high as 50%. "That's going to be rolling out over the next year," Rove said, adding that the cost of the program "is going to be upside down....We're going have a lot more people on Medicaid than were anticipated, a lot fewer people with private insurance…a lot fewer healthier, younger people subsidizing the coverage of older, less-healthy people," Rove said. ~~~~~ It seems that a large chunk of small business owners across America agree with Romney and Rove. Insurance brokers say small business clients are hurrying to reset their insurance policy renewal dates to December 1 to beat the huge premium hikes they fear will hit them on January 1 when Obamacare takes full effect. The brokers told USA Today that 60% to 80% of their small business clients who have 50 employees or fewer want to renew their policies early to keep their costs lower. Larger companies, who employ more than 50 full-time workers, can't adjust their renewal dates. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, nearly half of the 7 million small businesses with 50 or fewer employees offer health insurance for their workers. On Friday, the group released a survey showing 64% of 921 owners reported paying more for insurance in 2013 than in 2012. Some agents say they're seeing increases of 30% up all the way to 100% on companies' premiums, especially if their workers are younger. According to Obamacare rules, companies are limited in charging older people more than they charge younger workers, so premium prices are rising to make up the difference. ~~~~~ Dear readers, we are witnessing the mounting evidence of -- lies, -- poor decisions based on major misunderstandings about the health insurance industry, -- an abandonment of promises made to retired Americans about their prescription drug programs and out-of-picket costs, and -- a willingness to gouge the great majority of the American public and their employers in order to favor a small percentage of non-insured Americans who could have been covered at lower cost and with less disruption of the American health care system. Barack Obama was and is in charge of this monumental deception and he must be held accountable. Congress should appoint a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the Obamacare fraud on the American people. NOW.