Posted on 10/30/2013 1:29:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer acknowledged Tuesday that President Barack Obama and Democrats could have been more “precise” in their messaging that the Affordable Care Act would not force Americans to give up their existing health insurance policies.
The Maryland Democrat’s concession comes as Republicans have accused the White House and health care law proponents of perpetuating a false narrative that nobody would be served a cancellation notice for policies with which they were perfectly satisfied.
“I don’t think the message was wrong,” Hoyer said at his weekly briefing with reporters. “I think the message was accurate, but … clearly it should have been caveated with, ‘assuming you have a policy that does in fact do what the bill is designed to do.’
“We used [the message] trying to allay the fears of people with group policies and those with significant coverage through their employer, which was the overwhelming number,” Hoyer continued. “You could have caveated, ‘unless you have coverage that’s insufficient to accomplish the objectives of giving you quality healthcare.’”
Those objectives, Hoyer said, could only be met if “everyone … take[s] personal responsibility” for their health insurance “so it [does] not become the responsibility of the public to assist them with their health insurance.”
Some policies do not meet the minimum standard of coverage dictated by the health law and Obama and Democrats might have clarified, Hoyer said, that only policies that met that standard would not be penalized.
Rhetoric aside, Hoyer still stands firmly behind the law.
“What the bill is designed to do is give millions and millions, some 30-plus million people, access to affordable quality health care,” he said. “It’s doing it. That was the bill’s focus.”
Hoyer also said he did not “accept the premise” that “millions” of Americans are being told they cannot keep their existing health insurance policies.
But it's a lie within a lie because their end goal is to collapse the insurance industry, leaving nothing in place but a government run (IRS controlled) system, thereby eliminating any opposing political party.
I have watched Steny Hoyer here in Maryland since the 1960’s. in my opinion he is the most unctuous oleaginous political hack going. The personification of Uriah Heep
Hoyer is about as pathetic as they get but Maryland buys his lies and elects the POS every time.
Dems are scrambling.. here’s another one:
“If [the companies] changed [the insurance plans] then they have to notify the people who have to have the opportunity to have another policy,” said House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Sander Levin, D-Mich.
In fact, according to Levin, the “so-called cancellation notices” merely “help people transition to a new policy.”
“I have watched Steny Hoyer here in Maryland since the 1960’s. in my opinion he is the most unctuous oleaginous political hack going.”
Paints a picture, it does. One doesn’t hear the word oleaginous much anymore. BTW, (in my best Andy Rooney voice)
Did you ever notice that Steny is always, always sniffin right behind Pelosi? Is it just Me?
Both a pair of long time hacks. They were both Senate pages. Both need to retire
The heck with the other 320 million of us.
Dizzying isn’t it CW?
There was nothing imprecise about his repeated lies. His lies were direct and emphatic. He is a serial, pathological liar who makes Bill Clinton’s lies look tiny and white by comparison.
Yes, it most certainly is.
Maryland’s 5th Congressional District is filled with Blacks who moved out of DC as whites moved back into the city itself. These are not poor ghetto people, these are Gubmint employees working in DC and living in Maryland suburbs.
They owe their good lives and nice homes to Affirmative Action and Democrats like Steny Hoyer. Their votes have been bought and paid for by Steny’s firm hold on his 30 years in office.
When you add in the Yellow Dog Democrats who have ruled Maryland for many years , Steny is a hard man to beat.
Don’t think we haven’t tried.
Number two’s description of Steny Hoyer is totally correct, he is an unctuous Oleaginous politician. I had to look that up, it means oily, greasy. If you read the story you can see the slippery greasy way he excuses the lies of the administration. Steny got out of College ran for State office ,git it then ran for US office, got it. He wouldn’t know what a days work looked like.
Steny sniffs around her and Obama all the time.
30 some years he has been sucking at the federal tit, and at the State tit before that.
He is a consummate greasy politician.
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