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Obama knows what he is doing.
This post and Ponderosa's prove it.
He comes off looking caring and concerned and remorseful while transferring what will now be blamed on the evil,greedy insurance companies and/or the states for what is a practical impossibility for them to do in a few weeks.
And the he-can-do-no-wrong followers will suck it right up
Do you think that the insurance companies are blameless in this?
Do you think that it was acceptable for them to sell NEW policies after the ACA was passed that did not meet the requirements of the ACA?
You do realize that's what they've done, right?
ALL of the non-complying policies that were in effect prior to the ACA were grandfathered in. ALL OF THEM.
The only policies that are now non-compliant are those that were sold after.
Why do you suppose insurance companies would sell a product that they KNEW would to HAVE to be cancelled?
Do you think that they thought that the Supreme Court would rule differently? Or that Romney would get elected?
People keep talking about three years as if everything was a "go" from the get-go.
The reality is that until the Supreme Court ruled and the election was finalized, there was no guarantee that the ACA would stand.
So, the insurers rolled the dice and they lost. And why did they roll those dice?
Greed, pure and simple.
That and they no doubt calculated that people wouldn't blame them for their greed.
And they were right, weren't they?
He also had to beat the Republicans to the punch.
They had a bill in the House and were getting Dems on board with it.
How would that look if the bill passed ?
Now is he doing this via EO ? Bypass Congress yet again to change the law via EO ?
How would it have looked if the bill passed?
Would the result be any different?
There's still only, what, six-seven weeks left in the year.
People are wising up, though. This isn't just abstract policy esoterica. This is impacting Americans, personally. People are LOSING access to their doctors and/or nearby hospitals. Even those who get subsidies are finding Obamacare policies to be more expensive, after Obama promised families would save $2,500 per year on premiums.
Obama overpromised and under-delivered. Classic mistake frequently made by unqualified participants. Obama's presidency will be a Poli Sci case study for years to come of how NOT to run a presidential administration.
You keep saying this and have yet to post a link proving it.
Until then, I will ask, did you hear the president say that EVERY family would save $2,500 or was that meant to be those families that bought new insurance and/or was that meant to be on average?
Why make a deterministic statement with a resounding "PERIOD." at the end of it if he was only talking about the majority of people? Why not just say "The vast majority will be able to keep their plan"?
Because he was unsure on whether ACA would pass, so he needed lies to get over that hump.
No he lied because he is an idealist. To an idealist the ends always justify the means. They feel entitled to lie because after all they know what's best. The reason he was unsure if it would pass is that he knew the bill would cost us far more than advertised. He knew that a good many people would be impacted in a negative way. That doesn't matter because he also knew that the majority of his voting base would not be hurt. He made sure of that.
You keep saying this and have yet to post a link proving it.
Until then, I will ask, did you hear the president say that EVERY family would save $2,500 or was that meant to be those families that bought new insurance and/or was that meant to be on average?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Quote:
Obama (Bristol, Va., June 5): In an Obama administration,
we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year. And we’ll
do it by investing in disease prevention, not just disease management; by
investing in a paperless health care system to reduce administrative costs; and
by covering every single American and making sure that they can take their
health care with them if they lose their job. … And we won’t do all this twenty
years from now, or ten years from now. We’ll do it by the end of my first term
as president of the United States.
The GOP has made all too clear that it wants to destroy Obamacare, not fix it. Obama’s move Thursday is a solution that keeps the Affordable Care Act intact. The GOP bill would undermine the insurance base, which is its purpose.
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I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything going on in this country that he DOES know about.
Darth Barry knows full well what's happening, and he doesn't care. All that matters to him is a diminished America. Anyone who disagrees with him will either be blamed or attacked. He's just purposefully hiding what he does know from us in an effort to blindside us and deceive us into being forced into accepting his plan for our country, which is a lesser nation than others. He is a textbook example of why people can't trust politicians.
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