Posted on 10/27/2013 2:17:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 27, 2013
Robert B. Reich, liberal commentator and Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, insists in today's Huffington Post that "the Democrat's version of Health Insurance would have been cheaper, simpler and more popular" and asks "so why did we enact the Republican version and why are they so upset?"
Yes, he did. And no, there is nothing to indicate that his astonishing editorial is satire. Moreover, there is nothing to indicate in the comments sections that the Huffington Post readership manages to spot any irony in all of this either. This is the low information propaganda machine at full throttle.
Reich's thesis is that "while Republicans plot new ways to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, it's easy to forget that for years they've been arguing that any comprehensive health insurance system be designed exactly like the one that officially began October 1st, glitches and all." And in case you're not sure just which Republicans Reich is referring to, he clarifies that in the next paragraph, stating,
"...in February 1974, Republican President Richard Nixon proposed, in essence, today's Affordable Care Act. Under Nixon's plan all but the smallest employers would provide insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, an expanded Medicaid-type program would insure the poor, and subsidies would be provided to low-income individuals and small employers."
While the absurdities are too numerous to mention here, apparently, Reich is actually trying to hang the disaster of Obama Care around the necks of Republicans because a liberal GOP President thought about something similar four decades ago.....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sounds to me like the libs are getting pretty scared and desperate.Just the way I like it.
That sounds like about a 10 page law. As compared to the 100,000 pages of Obamacare.
No clicks for See Eddmund.
He's pretty much a jerk.
Courtesy ping! :-)
Once upon a time the libs thought Nixon was an ultra right wing, paranoid Red-baiter. What happened? ;)
They are just driving that much harder to push us to Single Payer NOW!!!
Ted Rall, Jon Stewart, and others have already shouted it from the roof tops.
FYI, American Thinker MUST be excerpted.
You sound awfully bitter.
Reading the writing on the wall the libs are starting to try to make the disaster that is obamacare a Republican mess. Not going to happen. Everyone remembers the “deem to pass” and other shenanigans. Oh, and the house vote with no GOP backing. obamacare is the sole responsibility of bammy and his fellow ‘rats.
They claim it is wildly successful, but if they are trying this hard to pin it on republicans, do they really consider it a success?
I don't recall having mentioned excerpting.
No it isn't. It is George Washington's fault.
(Sarcasm off)
Your post pretty much sums it up,and that’s why they’re bouncing off the walls.I’ve got to lay in a good supply of popcorn,’cause this is gonna get entertaining.
The Republicans probably actually believe that the law is a success and their “friends from across the aisle” are trying to pin their wild success on them.
They’re called the stupid party for a reason
Their desperation is bringing out the best in them! B^)
Robert B. Reich, liberal commentator and Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, insists in today's Huffington Post that "the Democrat's version of Health Insurance would have been cheaper, simpler and more popular" and asks "so why did we enact the Republican version and why are they so upset?" ...This is the low information propaganda machine at full throttle.What's his FR nick?
NO, .... it’s LBJ”s fault.
I blame Wilson and FDR. Obamacare is the end result of 100 years of progressive hogwash.
Try Andrew Johnson’s (LBJ’s Gr-Gr-Gr-Daddy) Reconstruction Gov’t, Post Cival War.
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