Posted on 10/14/2014 9:53:21 AM PDT by John Semmens
In a debate with GOP opponent Ed Gillespie, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va) expressed little concern over the reported 250,000 Virginians who lost their health care insurance coverage due to Obamacare.
“Look, every battle has casualties,” Warner blandly commented. “What we need to do is weigh these against the gains achieved by the Affordable Care Act, of which I believe there were many.”
Among the gains cited by Warner were coverage for preexisting conditions, equal prices for men and women, and keeping children on parents' plans until age 26. As good as these provisions may sound to Obamacare advocates, they yield no benefit to the 250,000 Virginians who lost coverage due to the ACA.
Warner blamed “penny-pinching business owners for putting profit ahead of the public policy that all be insured. Saying that the costs of the ACA would bankrupt them is no excuse. They should have faith that the government would eventually cover their losses if that becomes necessary for the nation's overall well-being.”
In related news, Logan Clements, producer of the film “Sick and Sicker: ObamaCare Canadian Style,” has been hit with an IRS audit. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen insisted that “the selection of Clements for audit was completely random. Unfortunately, the documents verifying this were among those lost due to one of the many computer crashes that have plagued our agency.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,150964.0.html
Will Obamacare cover a patient for Ebola, since Obama’s administration seems to think that Ebola doesn’t exist?
if 250,000 people lost insurance in every state... that would be 12.5 million who lost it... that may actually be more than gained it!
So ... where’s the satire?
Obamacare has done little to reduce the total number of uninsured, and supporters apply cognitive dissonance to brush off the failure of that primary goal with some form of “no, really, we’re all better off”.
And don’t get me started on the IRS audits 100% targeting right-wing taxpayers.
Parts of the “satire” may be made up, but they’re functionally indistinguishable from longstanding news.
Lol, what satire? The Political Class could give a damn about the producer class. We are but a money tree to be shaken as needed.
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