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CBS: White House warned three years ago that ObamaCare was running off the rails (Video)
Hot Air ^ | 8:41 am on November 4, 2013 | by Ed Morrissey

Posted on 11/04/2013 10:27:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Remember when you’re watching this that it pertains to the same people who now argue that they know better than you about what kind of insurance coverage you need.  CBS News reports that an internal memo warned the White House three years ago that the Healthcare.gov project was turning into a disaster, and that no one with any expertise had control of the project:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obamacare; zerocare

1 posted on 11/04/2013 10:27:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
As a Tea Party member you qualify for the 'special' setting.
2 posted on 11/04/2013 10:34:42 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Fearful of constant attacks from congressional Republicans, the White House became secretive about the law's complexity and regulatory reach.

The term is "overreach" and they were right to be concerned about it. It was and remains nothing less than a particularly crude attempt to nationalize an industry. It was botched because the people doing it were political thugs and professional liars, and it will remain botched because they're still the ones in charge.

3 posted on 11/04/2013 10:35:27 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama should have started with something smaller....like an ice cream shop.

/smirk


4 posted on 11/04/2013 10:43:01 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: Billthedrill
"It was botched because the people doing it were political thugs and professional liars, and it will remain botched because they're still the ones in charge."

Those are very apt terms for political and media relations staff.
5 posted on 11/04/2013 10:43:57 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: DeFault User

Everyone would be required to buy a cone with at least one scoop. You would have to pay the cost of another scoop, before you were allowed to actually eat some of your ice cream.


6 posted on 11/04/2013 10:45:54 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It is supposed to run off the rails. It is supposed to destroy the private health care market. That is its purpose.

The likes of Obama and the DNC intended all along to go to total govewrnment supplied health care. Where everyone is covered by the government and the cost is taken out of the pay of those who produce as a tax.

Why do you think it was essential for the Supreme Court to find that ObamaCare was a tax? When it was never written that way and would never have passed that way?

Roberts looked sick that day...very sick. There is no doubt in my mind that they somehow either threatened or blackmailed the man and got him to turn.

Now the precedent has been set. ObamaCare will fail and the dems hope to save us all with complete government health care.

That has been their aim from the beginning.

Better shout it from the roof tops.

And this is only one of their “plans,” with which they are destroying this Republic. Think immigration reform. Think the PRISM and NSA programs. Think the entire abortion industry and the destruction of the American family. Think the endless debt ceiling and printing of faux currency...the entire economic situation. Etc., etc. These are all engineered to destroy this Republic as she was founded over the long haul.

America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm


7 posted on 11/04/2013 10:47:04 AM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Billthedrill

If the ACA had been a commercial endeavor, its CEO would have made sure that the most knowledgeable and fully qualified personnel were tasked to implement the program, because to do otherwise could lead to failure, collapse of the bottom line, no profit for its investors, and the CEO would lose his job.

But, as it is, the ACA is a government program and no one in the history of government service has ever been hired based on what they know; they’re always hired based on who they know.


8 posted on 11/04/2013 10:49:05 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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