Posted on 12/26/2013 4:06:44 AM PST by Libloather
“I think what most Americans want us to do is not repeal Obamacare, which is what our Republican colleagues are focused on, but fix it. The President is working to fix it, we are working in the Senate to fix it, we urge our Republican colleagues to join us in fixing it.” – Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Dec. 22, 2013
**SNIP**
The Pinocchio Test
Schumer’s comment was carefully worded to suggest that Democrats are working hard to improve the law while being open to Republican ideas. But his remarks leave out a significant part of the story. Senate Democrats generally have not offered legislative fixes — and the leadership often has blocked legislation backed by Republicans and even some Democrats from coming to the floor for a vote. Administrative fixes engineered by the White House can only go so far in addressing some of the problems that have emerged from the drafting of the original law.
Schumer’s comment is an example of political rhetoric that misdirects through omission and its tone, leaving listeners in the dark about the actual dynamics on the Senate floor. This comment is on the tipping point of between One and Two Pinocchios, but we don’t have 1/2 Pinocchios. Given the gap between Schumer’s rhetoric and the reality, we lean toward Two Pinocchios.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Screw the RATS. They devised this mess in secret meetings. They own it.
DITTOS. . . . .
“I think what most Americans want us to do is not repeal Obamacare, which is what our Republican colleagues are focused on, but fix it. The President is working to fix it, we are working in the Senate to fix it, we urge our Republican colleagues to join us in fixing it.” – Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Dec. 22, 2013
SCHUMER FACILITATES AN HISTORIC STRAIGHT PARTY LINE AYE VOTE FOR O/CARE: “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” (Schumer at U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/29/09)
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SCHUMER SUCKS UP FOR AMNESTY-- ON RECORD AS AIDING AND AETTING FELONIES "When people are living in undocumented status, there are times, I suppose, when they've made up identities, made up (or stole) Social Security numbers. How are they going to remember all that? (The) purpose of this bill is to bring people out of the shadows. We all know when they lived in the shadows, they had to forge documents, forge Social Security numbers, et cetera. I just don't see how, when you've lived here 10 years, and you've had many different identities, many different numbers, you're going to remember them all," said Schumer.
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The Senate "amnesty reform" bill also absolves latinos holding US public office---from prosecution for wrongdoing while in office for stuff like government fraud, graft, bribery, selling their votes for cash....the usual politician crimes that Schumer enumerated---b/c he knows them so well?
Schumer also threatened Republicans (but never delivered) massive “latino civil-rights type” marches if they didn’t shapeup.
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I just posted this comment after the WaPo article. “Like” it and thousands of libs will spew their Starbucks this morning.
Comrades, please to take “chill pill” and sit back to await developments. All is according to plan! As Dear Leader Obama said to union of AFL-CIO in 2003, ultimate goal is “single payer” National Socialist healthcare rationing, but will take maybe ten years and several stages to accomplish. Comrades, ACA also known as Obamacare is simply big step on way to goal. First, obsolete capitalist health insurance companies must be destroyed and put in graveyard once and for all. Then what option is left, comrades? Only glorious National Socialist healthcare, free for all good comrades! And best of all, commissars working 24 by 7 in ACA-NSA-IRS data-hub fusion centers will be able to find bad comrades, such as reactionary “tea party” members, and “lose” or “corrupt” healthcare files.
“Oh, so sorry Mr. Tea Party, no operation for brat kid until you get attitude corrected, and stop posting slanderous lies about Dear Leader Obama!” And if useless feeder old granny wants expensive medicine, too bad for her! As Dear Leader and top advisor Zeke Emmanuel say, old granny can just take pain pill and die sooner, for good of collective society. Glorious National Socialist healthcare rationing only for good comrades, marching forward to new dawn of social justice and economic democracy
Its the Law of the Land what is their to do. We passed it now live with it
There have been at least 14 changes made to the Affordable (?) Care Act by 'Executive fiat' , not by changes made in the Congress.
All these 'Executive' changes were made to make the Act viable and responsive to the political needs of those who passed it.
Only one party jammed this down the throat of the American people, without input, discussion, or debate.
The ACA is lawful as passed in Congress.
The ACA changes have been made without Congressional approval and therefore is ILLEGAL , and is as 'Amorphus' as is our pResident.
We knew as little about our pResidential candidate as we knew about the Afforable Care Act.
We heard "You gotta pass it,..in order to find out what's in it "
Those who passed it ,.. they OWN it !!
Let them be held accountable on election day, and let the elections fall where they may ..
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The doctor won’t see you? Analysts warn ObamaCare plans could resemble Medicaid
Published December 26, 2013
• FoxNews.com
Those signing up for private health care coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges may be in for an unpleasant surprise — they’ll have insurance, but they might have trouble getting the doctor to see them.
As hundreds of thousands enroll for coverage beginning Jan. 1, analysts are warning that the plans are likely to give them access to fewer doctors and hospitals. So much so, they warn, that the system could begin to resemble Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans.
“Indeed, I think this will eventually be like Medicaid,” said Merrill Matthews, director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
Matthews said the only way many insurers are going to be able to control costs is by “simply clamping down on the amount they are willing to pay.”
Just as with Medicaid, analysts warn that if payments get too low, many doctors might start refusing to see patients. That will leave more and more patients jockeying to see fewer and fewer doctors.
They emphasize, then, that having health insurance won’t necessarily translate into access to health care.
“About half of the physicians in many communities refuse to take Medicaid patients because the payment system is just too low,” said James Capretta, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Doug Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, suggested some of the plans on the exchanges are going in the same direction.
“If you look at something where you get a dollar by treating a private payer, you get about 70 cents out of Medicare for that same treatment, you get about 55 cents out of Medicaid for that,” he said.
He added: “You know, ObamCare started to look like Medicaid of the future, and in the Medicaid in the present, you can have the insurance but a doctor won’t see you.”
By the end of March, the Obama administration hopes to increase the number of people on Medicaid by 9 million, and the number in private plans by 7 million. New Medicaid enrollments so far have far outpaced enrollments in private plans on the exchanges.
But since Medicaid patients already have access to relatively few doctors, expanding that population while opening the door to lower payments for private insurance raises the prospect of rationing, as too many people chase too few doctors.
“These networks are going to be jammed with people,” Robert Laszewski, president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, said. “Far more than they’re treating now, and I don’t doubt that we’re going to have problems with access to these doctors. There just aren’t going to be enough of them.”
For now, the Obama administration is trying to move past a year of some ups and many downs for its health care law, and encourage people to sign up during the final three months of open enrollment. President Obama said in his year-end press conference that enrollment has picked up considerably as problems with the federal exchange website have been addressed.
Fox News’ Jim Angle contributed to this report.
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