Fortune Editor Breaks With CNNers On ObamaCare; IDs 5 Freedoms Lost, Inevitable State Control

...A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict the President's assurances. ....

page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage....

Tully then lists and discusses the five freedoms lost under ObamaCare:

• Freedom to choose what's in your plan
• Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
• Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
• Freedom to keep your existing plan
• Freedom to choose your doctors

...The bill gives ERISA employers a five-year grace period when they can keep offering plans free from the restrictions of the "qualified" policies offered on the exchanges. But after five years, they would have to offer only approved plans, with the myriad rules we've already discussed.

So for Americans in large corporations, "keeping your own plan" has a strict deadline. In five years, like it or not, you'll get dumped into the exchange. As we'll see, it could happen a lot earlier....

The employees who got their coverage before the law goes into effect can keep their plans, but once again, there's a catch. If the plan changes in any way -- by altering co-pays, deductibles, or even switching coverage for this or that drug -- the employee must drop out and shop through 'the exchange'...

[Likewise for all points made; explicit language directly contradicting the assurances being sold to the people who are satisfied with their current care - an ~80% majority.

They're duping us again, and the cost will be great.]

Wow. After ready Tully's column, even those who have deeply imbibed the kool-aid won't be able to say they weren't warned.

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