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Morning Bell: President Says Obamacare Is Going Great
Heritage Foundation ^ | 5/1/2013 | Amy Payne

Posted on 05/05/2013 4:26:09 AM PDT by IbJensen

Obamacare is “working fine,” President Obama said yesterday in his press conference. It’s made health insurance “stronger, better, more secure than it was before.”

There are just a few slight details left to be implemented, but we shouldn’t worry about those, according to the President.

Right. There’s nothing to worry about, which is why Members of Congress are trying to exempt themselves and their staffs from Obamacare.

In reality, health insurance premiums are rising, and states—meaning taxpayers—are staring down some astronomical expenses. A new study from the Government Accountability Office cites Obamacare and Medicaid costs as budget busters for states that are just starting to get their budgets in order.

One of the biggest ways Obamacare planned to cover the uninsured was expanding Medicaid, the government health care program for low-income children, disabled Americans, pregnant women, and seniors. But this program isn’t quality care, and it needs major reforms. Heritage’s Nina Owcharenko, the Preston A. Wells, Jr. Fellow, has explained that expanding Medicaid is bad for patients and taxpayers alike. “Greater dependence on federal dollars tangles the states in bad fiscal policy and bad health care policy,” Owcharenko says.

Yesterday, President Obama dismissed Obamacare opposition from the states as political. But it’s a very real bottom-line issue. Heritage research shows that 40 of 50 states would see increases in costs due the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. In just three years, costs would exceed any potential savings that have been suggested.

A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that more than half of Americans (53 percent) “approve of efforts by opponents to change or stop the law ‘so it has less impact on taxpayers, employers, and health care providers.’”

It sounds like Americans know better than the President how Obamacare is really going.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; evilobamaregime; incompetence; obamacare; phonypresident; zerocare
Another startling revelation: Obama lies. This is what he does on everything his incapable hands come into contact with. Pelousy famously said "We have to pass it to see what's in it". There were so many little bombs hidden in the massive and most terrible piece of legislation to ever slither out of the evil central socialist government. This is the gift that will keep on giving until the final collapse of this decadent incompetent government.

General Custer sent back a rider, saying that although his patrol was doing well, there were just a few little details to complete before returning home.

1 posted on 05/05/2013 4:26:09 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Who are you going to believe.

Obama or your lying eyes.


2 posted on 05/05/2013 4:28:42 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: IbJensen

From his first “birth certificate” to his last
“Executive Order”, this pRes_ _ent cannot tell the truth.

Lucky for him that the US Congress loves Communism
and Islam more than America, truth, justice, and freedom.


3 posted on 05/05/2013 4:29:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: IbJensen
Obamacare is doing precisely what he wanted it to do -- it's crashing and burning.

Single Payer, here we come!

4 posted on 05/05/2013 4:30:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (T)
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To: IbJensen

5 posted on 05/05/2013 4:31:02 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Obamacare is doing precisely what he wanted it to do -- it's crashing and burning."

Exactly!. Cloward Piven strategy in action.

6 posted on 05/05/2013 4:33:04 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: IbJensen

Edward Smith, Captain, RMS Titanic radio telegraphed to New York:

Making good headway. Expect to arrive early. No problems foreseen.

Wait...

What did the lookout say?

Ice... what?


7 posted on 05/05/2013 4:33:46 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: IbJensen


8 posted on 05/05/2013 4:45:48 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

LOL!!!!!


9 posted on 05/05/2013 5:19:08 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Bagdad Bob! LOL


10 posted on 05/05/2013 5:22:51 AM PDT by gattaca ("Empty heads are fond of long titles" Old German Proverb.)
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To: Venturer
Like the POS said...."fundamentally change the United States of America."
11 posted on 05/05/2013 5:26:19 AM PDT by True Grit
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To: IbJensen
"...It’s made health insurance “stronger, better, more secure than it was before...”

Notice he didn't mention the "affordable" facet of the "Affordable Care Act".

Funny, that.

12 posted on 05/05/2013 5:45:04 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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To: True Grit

“Like the POS said....”fundamentally change the United States of America.”

One of the very few times he actually told the truth. And most people dismissed it as campaign rhetoric.


13 posted on 05/05/2013 6:05:51 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: IbJensen

Is the Prezzy dropping Acid now, too?


14 posted on 05/05/2013 6:22:30 AM PDT by Shady (Libya shows us how Americans rate...)
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To: IbJensen
Lying *&*^$#$^*^$#$*& is saying that the economy is doing great and that we have defeated al qaeda and ended the WAR ON TERROR. Does anyone else see a pattern?

LLS

15 posted on 05/05/2013 8:12:55 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

It’s a giant waste of your time to ever listen to anything that mac daddy evr says because it’s nothing but lies.


16 posted on 05/05/2013 1:57:21 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: chiefqc

KNOW thy enemy... someone has to listen to tokyo rose.

LLS


17 posted on 05/06/2013 4:25:06 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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