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Obama on soaring health insurance premiums: ‘I had nothing to do with that’
Canada Free Press ^ | 10/21/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 10/21/2016 10:45:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

ObamaCare has had a disastrous effect on the health insurance market in this country, and it takes a hell of a lot of nerve for this guy to stand there and say it couldn't possibly have anything to do with him

Sure, it’s classic Obama deflection. He could probably smear dog crap on the bottom of your shoe and somehow make the case that it was all because of Republicans. He is that brazen. But it’s also a classic case of something Obama shares with many other liberals - the utter failure to understand that when the government messes around with private markets, the uninvited intervention affects all aspects of the private market. Because markets work like that.

Speaking in Florida, Obama insists that rising health insurance rates have nothing whatsoever to do with ObamaCare, and argues that most people get their health insurance from employer plans that are not ObamaCare plans. Thus, how can it possibly be his fault?


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: healthinsurance; obama; obamacare; premiums
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1 posted on 10/21/2016 10:45:40 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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2 posted on 10/21/2016 10:46:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Obama: “I didn’t build that!!”

America: “YOU LIE!!!”


3 posted on 10/21/2016 10:47:45 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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Math and economics should be the ONLY thing taught in schools.

We’d be free for the next hundred thousand years.


4 posted on 10/21/2016 10:48:02 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: TMA62

LOL! Kind of what I was thinking.


5 posted on 10/21/2016 10:48:29 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Yeah, Bush’s fault again.


6 posted on 10/21/2016 10:48:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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0bama lies and your health insurance dies...


7 posted on 10/21/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT by W. (Blue eyed murder in a size five dress...)
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PS: The analogy would be like he gets in a truck, starts it up and gets it going down the road then jumps out and when the truck crashes he says he didn’t have anything to do with that. It was the truck that crashed.


8 posted on 10/21/2016 10:50:36 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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“The other thing we’ve done is to say, what are the critical needs of small business? A lot of time, one of the biggest challenges is to make sure that you, as a sole proprietor, that you can get health insurance for you and your family. So when you hear about the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — and I don’t mind the name because I really do care. That’s why we passed it. You should know that once we have fully implemented, you’re going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that if you’re an employee at a big company you can get right now — which means your premiums will go down.”

— President Obama, campaign speech in Cincinnati, July 16, 2012


9 posted on 10/21/2016 10:51:47 AM PDT by Virginia
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Yeah, and everyone who liked their old plan got to keep it. And keep their doctors. And Obamacare saved every family in America $1800.00 per year. And healthcare costs did not increase. And Obamacare never added a dime to the deficit. And our national debt did not double under Obama. And Obama never lies. Other than that, he’s an economic genius.


10 posted on 10/21/2016 10:51:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Obama had nothing to do with obamacare? LOL


11 posted on 10/21/2016 10:52:02 AM PDT by plain talk
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Obama on soaring health insurance premiums: ‘I had nothing to do with that’

He is not only a liar, he's a f***ing idiot.

That was all you baby.

12 posted on 10/21/2016 10:55:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Yeah, Bush’s fault again.

so Bush signed it


13 posted on 10/21/2016 10:59:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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With 0bama it’s always a blame Bush scenario. You did get it, didn’t you?


14 posted on 10/21/2016 11:01:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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Look what you did.

https://youtu.be/c4tRLtOI-xM?t=18

15 posted on 10/21/2016 11:02:06 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell ( Trump is the collective voice of 100 million F UÂ’s.)
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Half truths and lies of omission. Such a good muslim he is.

He knows how business works - not that he has business experience, but from what business folks have told him how things work. He knew before obamacare passed just how screwed little people would be. On purpose.


16 posted on 10/21/2016 11:04:54 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Sooooooooo.........Premiums would have skyrocketed and insurance companies would have dropped out even if he had not signed ACA into law. Do I have that right?


17 posted on 10/21/2016 11:09:41 AM PDT by clintonh8r
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He, and his handlers, knew exactly what they were doing, and exactly the effect it would have on the American economy. They have one goal only, to destroy America.


18 posted on 10/21/2016 11:09:42 AM PDT by tisket (Circumstances don't make the man, they reveal him.)
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Obama insists that rising health insurance rates have nothing whatsoever to do with ObamaCare, and argues that most people get their health insurance from employer plans that are not ObamaCare plans. Thus, how can it possibly be his fault?

Because the same insurance companies in Obamacare, also write policies for employer-based plans. As a result of losing their ass in the Obamacare exchanges, they have to overcharge the employer plans.

19 posted on 10/21/2016 11:16:46 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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That cannot be right. Didn’t they lower premiums by up to $2500 per family?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o65vMUk5so

“You’ve been hoodwinked. Bamboozled.”


20 posted on 10/21/2016 11:21:56 AM PDT by boycott (S)
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