Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports here on Monday’s ObamaCare presentation by an official of the Durham/Orange/Chatham League of Women Voters.

The event was touted by Orange County in a press release and held at Orange County’s main public library. The county described the presentation this way in its press release:

“Representatives from the League of Women Voters will explain the law in a factual, comprehensive and unbiased way, including the law’s impact on North Carolinians.”

Way reports that on Monday, the presentation was given by Janet Hoy, an official with the local League of Women Voters group. In her “factual, comprehensive and unbiased” presentation, she blamed Republicans for ObamaCare confusion.

 

Hoy’s presentation stayed close to a script that maintained Obamacare is a move in the right direction “to help cover those millions of people who are uninsured.”

Its insurance market reforms include removing pre-existing condition limitations for children and adults, and providing many preventive services at $0 copay, she said.

“My personal favorite” is guaranteed child coverage up to age 26 on a parent’s plan, she said. “That was a really big one for people” because previously children had to be a full-time student and were covered only up to age 22 or 23.

Hoy acknowledged there is an abundance of uncertainty about Obamacare. She said there have been repeated attempts by U.S. House Republicans to repeal the law, “which is why people are confused about it.”

And while the Manhattan Institute has estimated the cost of insurance premiums in North Carolina will rise 136 percent due to Obamacare’s effects, Hoy said, “I am happy to pay some of my income to get other people covered.”

Higher premiums “offset those of us who are in the system,” Hoy said, the same way automobile insurance works. Individuals pay into the system, but if they have no accidents, they get no benefits, and their premium money goes to pay for those who do have accident claims.

Under Obamacare, “that means young people are going to be paying more, and older people will be paying less,” she said. Hoy did not note that many younger, healthier people appear to be opting to pay the $95 penalty for not having coverage rather than signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Bottom line: a government-endorsed and promoted event, held at a publicly funded and maintained facility, blames Republicans.