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Obama: GOP 'rooting' for ObamaCare failure
The Hill ^

Posted on 10/26/2013 7:32:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: GOP 'rooting' for ObamaCare failure By Elise Viebeck - 10/26/13 06:00 AM ET

President Obama blasted GOP opponents of his healthcare law as hypocrites after Republicans expressed concerns about the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov.

In his weekly address, Obama suggested that the GOP's focus on the issue was in bad faith because Republicans have pushed for years to repeal, defund or dismantle ObamaCare.

Republicans "spent the last few years so obsessed with denying … people access to health insurance that they just shut down the government and threatened default over it," Obama said.

"It's well past the time for folks to stop rooting for [the law's] failure."

Obama's comments come after a tough week for the administration. HealthCare.gov, the online enrollment portal for ObamaCare coverage, remained mired in problems in its fourth week.

The rollout has drawn fire from Republicans and Democrats alike, including former members of the administration.

This week, Obama announced several steps to improve the system's functionality, including appointing former White House budget director Jeff Zients as a chief "fixer" for the site.

Federal health officials are also benefiting from a "tech surge" involving experts brought in to triage the sign-up process.

Republicans argue that the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov indicates that ObamaCare is unworkable and have promised tough oversight on the implementation stumbles.

Obama pushed back on Saturday, citing the law's more popular provisions and explaining the logic behind the insurance marketplaces.

The website "gathers insurers under one system to compete for your business," Obama said. "And that choice and competition have actually helped bring prices down."

Obama also described efforts to repair the enrollment process, urged frustrated users to try enrolling by telephone and vowed not to give up until the process is smooth.

"We're only a few weeks into a six-month open enrollment period, and everyone who wants insurance through the marketplace will get it," Obama said.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alreadyfailed; canobamacare; impeach; moneypit; obamacarebailouts
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To: Sub-Driver

Rooting? How about “accurately predicting”?


101 posted on 10/26/2013 9:52:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sub-Driver
I'm also "rooting" for 3 + 2 to equal 5.

"Accurately observing" is not synonymous with "rooting".

102 posted on 10/26/2013 9:55:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: kabar

The GOP does not have to do a thing for Obamacare to be a failure. It was designed to fail and bring in single payer. The GOP just has to point that out.


103 posted on 10/26/2013 10:06:38 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: kabar

PS Au contraire.


104 posted on 10/26/2013 10:08:28 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well duh!


105 posted on 10/26/2013 10:17:41 AM PDT by billhilly (Has Pelosi read it yet?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well duh!


106 posted on 10/26/2013 10:21:20 AM PDT by billhilly (Has Pelosi read it yet?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Damn right we are. Kill It With Fire!


107 posted on 10/26/2013 10:21:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: bmwcyle
The GOP does not have to do a thing for Obamacare to be a failure.

Perception counts for more than reality when dealing in the political realm. Obama has been an abject failure as President, but he was still reelected by five million votes.

It was designed to fail and bring in single payer. The GOP just has to point that out.

That is doing something and that is my point. We can' t allow the MSM and the Dems to define success and failure. My concern is that we are being suckered into the number signing up on the website as the metric for success rather than more substantive measures like premium costs, deductibles, co-pays, reduced payments to hospitals and doctors, job losses and the conversion to part-time work etc.

The website will be fixed and the number of enrollees will climb as more and more employers and insurance companies drop existing coverage and force people into the exchanges by tens of millions. It is inevitable.

Yes, single payer is the objective. Obamacare is the final piece joining the other single payer medical coverages, i.e., Medicare (47 million enrolled) and Medicaid (70 million enrolled counting the CHIPs program). Obamacare will add at least another 18 million to Medicaid and Medicare will continue to increase as 10,000 people retire a day and will continue to do so every day for the next 20 years.

And for those predicting the demise of private insurance, I would remind them that 9 out of 10 Medicare recipients have supplemental insurance. It is why AARP supports Obamacare.

The Reps must be proactive and not sit by and think that the failure of Obamacare will be self-evident. The Goebbels-like propaganda machine aided by the MSM will blame the GOP for the failure, particularly if the Dems are prevented from making various fixes to make the system more palatable.

108 posted on 10/26/2013 10:53:10 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
The website will be fixed and the number of enrollees will climb as more and more employers and insurance companies drop existing coverage and force people into the exchanges by tens of millions. It is inevitable.

That's what companies want.....They shouldn't be in the business of managing their employees' healthcare. They only did it, as a workaround for wartime wage controls. It's one reason companies offshore, they don't have to worry about providing insurance for Sanjay in Mumbai, who works for some Indian company they contracted with.

109 posted on 10/26/2013 10:56:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, sure, just like Cassandra was “rooting for” the destruction of Troy.


110 posted on 10/26/2013 11:00:32 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, like the Jews in 1936 Berlin rooting for Hitler’s defeat.

Of course if they did, they were never heard from again. If only Obama had gotten funding for those Boxcars and Camps.


111 posted on 10/26/2013 11:02:29 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Good news, Federal Funding for my Tagline has been restored. Crisis averted.)
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To: Sub-Driver
The Obammunist is also rooting for its failure, so he can replace it with a full-blown, no pretenses, single payer Communist system. Not just for healthcare, either...for the whole economy.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

112 posted on 10/26/2013 11:27:06 AM PDT by wku man (It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
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To: dfwgator
No doubt that businesses want to get out of the health care business. GM found that out. The only question is what will replace it--a government single payer system or the private sector. We need to contain costs and Obamacare does not do that nor does Medicare and Medicaid. Medical care will need to be rationed either by the government or the individual.

Medicare will consume the entire federal budget if it is not reformed.

113 posted on 10/26/2013 11:44:43 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Sub-Driver

Just going through the same narrative that those who oppose this law want to stop people from having health insurance, all the while people are getting notices in the millions their insurance is being cancelled due to this law.

The level of dishonesty continues to be extraordinary.


114 posted on 10/26/2013 1:20:03 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

“The level of dishonesty continues to be extraordinary.”

Obama and his handlers think we are too stupid to recognize their dishonesty. Obama thinks he is being sneaky and clever. He is way more transparent than he planned to be.


115 posted on 10/26/2013 1:53:23 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Liz; Sub-Driver; GOPJ; Grampa Dave; ken5050; thouworm; Libloather; FourtySeven
RE :”Obama: GOP ‘rooting’ for ObamaCare failure”

No...Obama blame others???? , You know I read this here before:

Democrats Newest :”It’s all Republicans fault because they are rooting for Obama-care’s failure” (10/21/2013 · by sickoflibs ·)

116 posted on 10/26/2013 7:41:16 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

By attempting to prevent its adoption by enough states and by blitzing with negative ads designed to scare citizens.

Again, I am not against these tactics because it is probably for the best, but to deny that one side is trying to derail it is akin to pretending to be blind.


117 posted on 10/27/2013 7:37:16 AM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic

Obama is trying to make a certain point - which for some idiotic reason you feel the need to try and agree with.

I am full well aware of what is going on, but fully aware of what Obama is trying to say to his lo fo voters, and the twain shall never meet.


118 posted on 10/27/2013 7:42:34 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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