Don’t Like Obamacare? It Was the Republicans’ Idea, Says Liberal Democrat (Robert Reich)

Cybercast News Service ^ | October 28, 2013 - 10:12 AM | Susan Jones

[Olog-hai]

Not a single Republican voted for the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act, but one liberal Democrat is nevertheless blaming Republicans for the system that’s debuted to so much criticism.

“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 1^st, glitches and all,” said Robert Reich, who served as President Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary.

Reich says Democrats should have insisted on a single-payer system because it would have been “cheaper, simpler, and more popular.” …

[Olog-hai]

One new lie by Reich exposes the truth that the conservatives have been speaking since Obamacare was proposed.

[duckman]

BTW Hannity just announced that Moochell’s college classmate received the no-bid contract, CGI, to develop and create Obamacare.

[Snickering Hound]

[MrB]

Well, Robby - you know why they DIDN’T propose a single payer system, don’t you?

Because leftwing socialists can only succeed when they hide their agenda from the people.

[massgopguy]

“Single payer”. Yes, I want to be #300,000,000 in the call queue. Reich is another phony “Economics” professor.

[blueunicorn6]

Robert Reich
Down at the looney-bin they call him “The one that got away”.

[Argus]

I’m sure there’s an excuse for the Holocaust that blames the Jews, too.

[Sarah Barracuda]

LOL Robert, thanks for the laughs I havent laughed that hard in weeks..ahhhh single payer, I mean whats not to love, I know I hear everyday when people get sick the first thing they say is “I feel horrible, I am going to get treatment in the UK” yeah that sounds like something we hear everyday right..right../sarc

[BenLurkin]

Bingo!

[dread78645]

News flash for ya,Bobby; The Heritage Foundation != Republicans.

[sickoflibs]

Not a new lie, this one has been around since 2010 and a lib here repeats it to me every so often.

Supposedly someone in Heritage foundation suggested some sort of personal mandate decades ago.
It sounds possible.

[massmike]

Column: Don’t blame Heritage for ObamaCare mandate

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-02-03/health-individual-mandate-reform-heritage/52951140/1

[SierraWasp]

I recall with certainty that both Knewt Gingrich as well as the Heritage Foundation were proposing something almost identical, including mandated coverage back when Knewt was speaker!!!

[GeronL]

Yep.

It’s official, the demand for single payer is starting up.

There have been several news articles and op-eds in the past week saying we should do single payer now.

[fireman15]

We have a friend who lives in the UK. Her husband had a partial blockage in his heart... something that would have been fixed in a week around here. He was put on a waiting list. A year and a half later he died... still waiting.

[goldi]

So now the Democrats catered to Republican demands regarding Obamacare?
The Democrats didn’t care what the Republicans thought about their health care law. If they wanted too, they could have passed a single payer health care bill when they had both houses of congress. So, why didn’t they?

Boo hoo, the Republicans made us do it.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

There have been several news articles and op-eds in the past week saying we should do single payer now.

Yep! They should do it right now! It should sail right through the House! /S

[sickoflibs]

Robert Reich : “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,” said Robert Reich, who served as President Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary.
Reich says Democrats should have insisted on a single-payer system because it would have been “cheaper, simpler, and more popular.”
In a blog at The Huffington Post website, Reich wrote that Republicans have long argued for a health care system based on private insurance and paid for with subsidies and a requirement that the young and healthy people sign up. Democrats, he says, wanted to model health care reform on Social Security and Medicare, and fund it through the payroll tax.
Reich says President Richard Nixon in 1974, “proposed, in essence, today's Affordable Care Act.” Thirty years later, then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another Republican, “made Nixon's plan the law in Massachusetts.”

So when Obamacare fails that just means the GOP has bad ideas.

So time to try the liberals idea single payer.

‘We tried your GOP ideas and they failed. Now give ours a chance’

LOL

[DJ MacWoW]

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