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Bloomberg could fix Obamacare
CNN.com ^ | November 5, 2013 | By MIchael Zuckerman

Posted on 11/05/2013 3:14:10 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Liberals and conservatives don't agree on much these days, but many agree on this: The Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov rollout has been a debacle. That's reason enough for President Obama to replace agency Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and he should go with an unconventional choice: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

He's a credible, creative and confirmable nominee who would offer the president (whose approval ratings have just dipped to 39% in the latest Gallup tracking poll) one of the few chances he'll get to turn the page on the current HealthCare.gov mess.

That would do a lot to safeguard health reform for the long haul -- and begin to restore some much-needed faith in good government

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; failure; obamacare; rinocare
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Editor's note: Michael Zuckerman is a writer at the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously worked as the research assistant to CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen and on several political campaigns, including in Ohio for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.
1 posted on 11/05/2013 3:14:10 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So could Hitler!


2 posted on 11/05/2013 3:14:45 PM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If ocare requirement was a major medical type policy, it might work, but forcing everyone to have Cadillac care is crazy.


3 posted on 11/05/2013 3:15:12 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They still think the only issue with Obamacare is the website


4 posted on 11/05/2013 3:15:45 PM PST by LMAO ("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bloomberg and Obama could never work together — it’d be Dueling Dictators!


5 posted on 11/05/2013 3:16:35 PM PST by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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Good grief...it never ends with them does it?


6 posted on 11/05/2013 3:18:26 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

First, take away all the large size drinks.


7 posted on 11/05/2013 3:24:18 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, it does take a village idiot.


8 posted on 11/05/2013 3:25:51 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Yeah, we don’t need no one fixin’ nothin’...
This is how we want it workin’ ...
The peeps are fixin’ for a hurtin’...
While we work our magic behind the curtain...
Yeah, we don’t need no help...
We just keep lyin’...
And the fools keep believin’
We really are tryin’
But we ain’t fixin’ nothin’...
Just goin’ to keep on spinnin’...
so just keep hopin’...
While we deal that changin’...


9 posted on 11/05/2013 3:27:22 PM PST by Sioux-san
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Does Bloomberg have a hammer and sickle tattoo on his forehead, or does he just come across that way?
10 posted on 11/05/2013 3:29:11 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

bloomies money would last about 3 seconds under obamacare... he is only a billionaire after all.


11 posted on 11/05/2013 3:29:51 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bloomberg couldn’t fix a line of cocaine without breaking the mirror and slicing himself with the razor blade.


12 posted on 11/05/2013 3:32:49 PM PST by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

KILL IT !


13 posted on 11/05/2013 3:35:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: lavaroise

“First, take away all the large size drinks.”

Bloomberg would absolutely cut health care costs:

0. No bullets. No bullets, guns don’t matter.
1. No smoking. Anything. Punishable by death.
2. No drinking alcohol.
3. No sugar drinks.
4. Anyone more than 10% overweight (measured every six months at government-run facilities) is immediately sent to a camp with healthy meals suggested by Ms. Obama.

What a rotten old fart. I PRAY every day that his vintage Sans-A-Belt pants fall down in public.


14 posted on 11/05/2013 3:35:45 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BloomingIdiot would simply outlaw private medicine then tax everyone $25,000.


15 posted on 11/05/2013 3:37:06 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

16 posted on 11/05/2013 3:37:50 PM PST by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bloomberg would lower rates by banning Big Gulps nationwide.


17 posted on 11/05/2013 3:43:52 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Maceman

But what do you REALLY think?


18 posted on 11/05/2013 3:44:43 PM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It doesn’t need “fixing”. It needs destroying.

Bloomberg needs a third world country somewhere to run. A place that still believes in dictators - like Kenya.

Maybe he can pair up with America’s first affirmative action president to do it


19 posted on 11/05/2013 3:48:53 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The website could run flawlessly. Obamacare would still be broken.

It ain’t the website!


20 posted on 11/05/2013 3:49:17 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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