Yesterday President Obama traveled to Boston for some damage control on the disastrous rollout of his signature legislation. It was another typically annoying campaign style appearance. Mitt Romney slammed him before he got there, but that didn’t stop him from praising the health care law Romney passed in Massachusetts.
What was notable is that now that news outlets are reporting how many people are losing their coverage thanks to Obamacare he changed his pledge to Americans. Instead of “you can keep your plan,” he’s now saying that you get to “shop around.” He didn’t mention that usually when people “shop around” it’s not under the threat of a penalty if you don’t feel like going shopping because you don’t think the stuff you already have needs replacing.
Now, if you had one of these substandard plans before the Affordable Care Act became law, and you really like that plan, you were able to keep it. That’s what I said when I was running for office. That was part of the promise we made. But ever since the law was passed, if insurers decided to downgrade or cancel the substandard plans, what we said under the law is that you have got to replace them with quality, comprehensive coverage because that, too, was a central premise of the Affordable Care Act from the very beginning…
So if you’re getting one of these letters [canceling your insurance policy], just shop around in the new marketplace. That’s what it’s for… (Read More)
Then he babbled some more, blaming “bad apple” insurance companies for the mess, even though they are no longer allowed to sell the policies people used to like.
What really annoyed me about the speech was when he praised Romney’s health care law, saying something like how they took the progressive vision for coverage for everyone, added conservative free market principles, and passed a bipartisan law. What he failed to mention is that there was nothing at all bipartisan about Obamacare. As for free market principles, this debacle is going to destroy the free market when it comes to health insurance. But we all know that’s been the goal all along.
In related news, his approval rating is at an all time low. I guess that means we’ll be paying for him to fly around the country making even more campaign appearances. It seems to be the only thing he’s good at.
So - obama is praising Romneycare. He should have urged his fawning sycophants to vote for Romney !
Alternet has more LIES about what Heritage said
in their “25 facts ignored by right wingers” today
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4. A national universal healthcare plan based on an individual mandate to obtain coverage was advocated [7] by the Heritage Foundation in 1992 and was the subject of bills introduced [8] by Republican senators in 1994
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American Thinker has a great article debunking these
lies. It is a real eye-opener.
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oh and Bernie Sanders says - in USA Today - that we ought to raise taxes instead of balancing the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable.
I wonder if he is talking about the 100,000 gangstas in Los Angeles, and another 100,000 in Chicago - you get the picture. They should all get ‘free healthcare’ , along with the wackos who frequent gay bathhouses and pick up a dozen incurable diseases, and then want everybody else to pony up the money to cure them.
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Romneycare? Puleeez! He was rejected and one reason was healthcare. “If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it. If you like your doctors you can still see them.” That has NOTHING to do with the new “This is really what we meant” spewage. F*ckers!
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