Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Reid: More funding needed to prevent ObamaCare from becoming 'train wreck'
The Hill ^

Posted on 05/01/2013 5:16:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Reid: More funding needed to prevent ObamaCare from becoming 'train wreck' By Alexander Bolton - 05/01/13 05:45 PM ET

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he shares colleagues’ concerns that the Affordable Care Act could become a “train wreck” if it’s not implemented properly.

Reid warned that people will not be able to choose health insurance plans on government health exchanges if federal authorities lack the resources to set them up and educate the public.

“Max said unless we implement this properly it’s going to be a train wreck and I agree with him,” Reid said, echoing a warning delivered last month by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.).

Reid warned the federal government is not spending enough money to implement the law because of Republican opposition to ObamaCare.

“Here’s what we have now, we have the menu but we don’t have any way to get to the menu,” Reid said.

Reid made his comments during an hour-long interview on The Rusty Humphries Show broadcast Wednesday afternoon from Las Vegas.

The shortage of funding to implement the law has forced President Obama to shift funds from other parts of the law.

“The president is taking money, I wish we had the money just to do this on its own but he’s agreed, he’s determined he’s going to take money from some of the other things that he feels are less important in the healthcare bill and put it on letting you and others know what’s in the bill,” Reid told a caller to the show.

Reid defended the need for the law, which dramatically expanded federal healthcare subsidies for the uninsured.

“I believe that a country of our size, the only superpower left in the world — it’s not right that we have 50-60 million people … with no health insurance,” he said. “We have to have a program where health insurance shouldn’t go to people who are rich, people who are upper-middle class. I believe the middle class and people below the middle class deserve to go to the hospital when they’re sick.”

Reid said he was well familiar with the law, which spanned as long as 2,000 pages when it was a bill, before it passed.

“Of course I read it. I didn’t sit down on a Friday evening and read it. This legislation was drafted over a period of months and months,” he said. “I can pass a test on it, I knew the law pretty well.”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0carecosts; 0carenightmare; abortion; deathpanels; obamacare; obamacarecosts; reid; zerocare
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last
To: Viennacon
“....Reid said, “We have to have a program where health insurance shouldn’t go to people who are rich, people who are upper-middle class.”.

O.K. dumb ass, get on board and put yourself and all the rest of you're colleuges under odumbocare or SHUT UP ALREADY!.

21 posted on 05/01/2013 5:33:07 PM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver; All

It looks like government is trying to turn its constitutionally indefensible remedy, Obamacare, a remedy for a government-manufactured crisis, into another government manufactured crisis. In other words, Obamacare was arguably a Trojan horse remedy containing another government-manufactured crisis.


22 posted on 05/01/2013 5:33:12 PM PDT by Amendment10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Shut to hell up Harry......you should have read the bill.


23 posted on 05/01/2013 5:33:35 PM PDT by True Grit
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

let it wreck


24 posted on 05/01/2013 5:34:33 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
The shortage of funding to implement the law has forced President Obama to shift funds from other parts of the law.

If we're too spineless to actually defund this monstrosity, we need to at least hold the line and strictly account for funds being spent where allocated. I can never forgive anyone who contributes to ObamaCare becoming a "successful" entitlement that reaches stable implementation.

25 posted on 05/01/2013 5:36:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Throw more money at it Harry

That’s this administrations answer to everything. Toss more money at it.

This isn’t just your regular train wreck.

This is two passenger trains filled to capacity headed head on at 100 mph each.


26 posted on 05/01/2013 5:37:08 PM PDT by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
Isn't it called the "AFFORDABLE" health care act? 'Affordable' for who? Only those who get it for free? Surely not the small businesses/tax payers who will be bankrupted by paying for it! ROFL!!!

Hey Reid, aren't you EXEMPT from 0bamacare? A-HOLE.

27 posted on 05/01/2013 5:37:24 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

REID: I believe the middle class and people below the middle class deserve to go to the hospital when they’re sick.

Hey Dingy, where ya been? For years now, ANYBODY can go to the hospital and be guaranteed care. Whasmatterwityou?


28 posted on 05/01/2013 5:43:07 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
I am not surprised that lame-brained Reid would go to the old canard of "not enough money". I mean, isn't that what liberals always go to, to explain the failure of their policies? Not enough money.

Obamacare is a train wreck; but, no amount of money can help right that train.

29 posted on 05/01/2013 5:45:11 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Progov
Anyone who is already part of a qualified medical insurance program doesn't need to go into the pool a.k.a. 'exchange'.

The 'exchange' is not OBAMAKKKARE ~ there's a whole package of oppressive and ruinous taxes that are actually OBAMAKKKARE.

Every Democrat politician in America should fear for his life and safety as those taxes begin to rip the heart out of everyone.

Getting involved in the 'put them in the exchange' debate isn't the route to satori in real time ~ rather, it wastes our time and agitates folks who need to keep targeted on the ENORMOUS ObamaKKKare taxes AND the death panels.

30 posted on 05/01/2013 5:51:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
No comment, I'd be banned..........

same here. I will not put down in words what I am thinking concerning reid..

Let's just with each passing day I more clearly feel the passion our Founders had for Freedom and the righteous anger they felt against government tyranny.

31 posted on 05/01/2013 5:53:18 PM PDT by sand88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: upchuck

ol’har is trying to say he thinks medical care is wasted on the rich. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates should pay him a visit ~ arrange for a blanket party or something.


32 posted on 05/01/2013 5:53:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

DeathCare is the next Holocaust in my opinion. Ya think these RAT goons would have been at home in the Fuhrer’s inner circle?


33 posted on 05/01/2013 5:53:52 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Just remember where the funds would come from (see tag line)... If Harry gets it, it is because Republicans gave it to him. Our problem isn’t Harry, our problem is the republicans that fund him.


34 posted on 05/01/2013 5:55:30 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pollster1

Sequestration is the answer!


35 posted on 05/01/2013 5:55:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Obama’s ...........Chickens are coming home to roost!


36 posted on 05/01/2013 5:59:57 PM PDT by Kryn-Man (Self-righteous, gun-totin', military-lovin', redneck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Col Frank Slade

It will never be enough.


37 posted on 05/01/2013 6:01:29 PM PDT by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Unlike most political failures initiated by the progressive statists, Obamacare cannot be pinned on conservatives.

Troubling indeed for those who passed it and made promises about how it would make unicorns and rainbows appear everywhere.


38 posted on 05/01/2013 6:03:00 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ExTexasRedhead
DeathCare is the next Holocaust in my opinion. Ya think these RAT goons would have been at home in the Fuhrer’s inner circle?

What possible parallel could there be between Germany's national socialists seizing absolute power because they thought their vision of the country would be better than freedom, and Obama's socialists seizing absolute power because they thought their vision of the country would be better than freedom?

39 posted on 05/01/2013 6:04:54 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
Sequestration is the answer!

The main problem with the sequester is that it doesn't go far enough. Still, it's a good start.

40 posted on 05/01/2013 6:08:17 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson