Obamacare or Not Obamacare? (RATS, family members ignore Pelosi's policing)

National Review ^ | 3/21/14 | Andrew Johnson

[Libloather]

Nancy Pelosi wants to throw out “Obamacare.” Not the law itself, just the name. The House minority leader insists that we all call President Obama’s signature health-care law the “Affordable Care Act.”

Unfortunately, Pelosi’s fellow Democrats, her family members, and even the president have other ideas.

**SNIP**

“It’s called the Affordable Care Act. It’s called the Affordable Care Act. I know you didn’t intend any compliment or derogatory — it’s called the Affordable Care Act,” the California Democrat adamantly corrected. “Affordable, affordable — there’s a reason — affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable.”

[Libloather]

“Once it’s working really well, I guarantee you, they will not call it ‘Obamacare,’” he said last fall. His Organizing for Action group’s website also provides merchandise brandishing the word “Obamacare.”

It'll be Husseincare until its repealed.

[saintgermaine]

For you to celebrate the 4th anniversary of “The Unaffordable Scare Act
“ also known as Obamacare (March 23).

Affordable Boat Act

The U.S. government has just passed a new law called “The Affordable Boat
Act” declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat by April 2014.
These “affordable” boats will cost an average of $54,000-$155,000 each.
This does not include taxes, trailers, towing fees, licensing and registration
fees, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance or repair costs.

This law has been passed, because until now, typically only wealthy and
financially responsible people have been able to purchase boats. This new
laws ensures that every American can now have an “affordable” boat of their own, because everyone is “entitled” to a new boat. If you purchase your boat before the end of the year, you will receive 4 “free” life jackets, not including monthly usage fees.

In order to make sure everyone purchases an affordable boat, the costs of
owning a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way,
wealthy people will pay more for something that other people don’t want or
can’t afford to maintain. But to be fair, people who can’t afford to maintain
their boat will be regularly fined and children (under the age of 26) can
use their parents’ boats to party on until they turn 27; then must purchase their own boat.

If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding, no you
can’t). If you don’t want or don’t need a boat, you are required to buy one
anyhow. If you refuse to buy one or can’t afford one, you will be regularly fined$800 until you purchase one or face imprisonment.

Failure to use the boat also will result in fines. People living in the
desert, ghettos, inner cities or areas with no access to lakes are not
exempt. Age, motion sickness, or lack of experience, knowledge or desire are
unacceptable excuses for not using your boat.

A government review board (that doesn’t know the difference between the
port, starboard or stern of a boat) will decide everything, including when,
where, how often and for what purposes you can use your boat, along with
how many people can ride in your boat and determine if one is too old or healthy enough to be able to use their boat. They will also decide if your boat has outlived its usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories (like a $500 compass) or a newer and more expensive boat.

Those who can afford yachts will be required to do so...it’s only fair.
The government will also decide the name for each boat. Failure to comply with these rules will result in fines and possible imprisonment.

Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat,
they and their families can obtain boats free, at the expense of taxpayers. Unions, bankers and mega companies with large political affiliations ($$$) are also exempt.

If the government can force you to buy health care, they can force you to buy a boat....or ANYTHING else..

Yeah...Obamacare....it’s that stupid. Leave it up to some socialists to come up with such a monstrosity, what else would you expect? Over here in the US they prefer to be called liberals as it sounds better because it doesn’t quite have that derogatory connotation. Besides this unaffordable health care scheme has nothing to do with a compassionate government, but everything with controlling their constituents and keep the creators of this monstrosity in perpetual power.

[Liz]

It’s called the Affordable Care Act,” Democrat Pelosi said. “Affordable, affordable — there’s a reason — affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable.”

Guess this lamebrain hasn't read the latest:

O-Care premiums to skyrocket / / By Elise Viebeck, The Hill Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration. The expected rate hikes will be announced in the coming months amid an intense election year, when control of the Senate is up for grabs. The sticker shock would likely bolster the GOP’s prospects in November and hamper ObamaCare insurance enrollment efforts in 2015.

The industry complaints come less than a week after HHS Secy Kathleen Sebelius sought to downplay concerns about rising premiums in the healthcare sector. She told lawmakers rates would increase in 2015 but grow more slowly than in the past. “The increases are far less significant than what they were prior to the Affordable Care Act,” the secretary said in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee.

Her comment baffled insurance officials, who said it runs counter to the industry’s consensus about next year. “It’s pretty shortsighted because I think everybody knows that the way the exchange has rolled out … is going to lead to higher costs,” said one senior insurance executive who requested anonymity. The insurance official, who hails from a populous swing state, said his company expects to triple its rates next year on the ObamaCare exchange. The hikes are expected to vary substantially by region, state and carrier. --SNIP--

SOURCE http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/201136-obamacare-premiums-are-about-to-skyrocket

[Liz]

Desperate Times for ObamaCare: Look at how How Obama’s con is pillaging America
FrontPage Mag.com | 03/21/2014 | Arnold Ahlert / FR Posted by SeekAndFind

The air of desperation surrounding ObamaCare gets thicker and thicker with each passing day. And no matter how dishonest President Obama, his administration officials, Democrats and their media allies, are in their attempt to fool the public, painful truths about this disaster can no longer be obscured.

We begin with premiums. As revealed by The Hill, they are about to “skyrocket,” with costs in some parts of the country increasing by as much as 200 percent. Unsurprisingly, this revelation runs completely counter to the Obama administration’s claims, most recently advanced by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in last week’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee. “The increases are far less significant than what they were prior to the Affordable Care Act,” the Secretary said.

Except that they’re not. A report by eHealth explains that premiums in the individual health market have risen 39 percent for individuals, and 56 percent for families, since February 2013. Minus the subsidies, the average cost of an individual plan is now $274, and a family plan is now $663 per month, up from $446 last year. And despite Sebelius’s contention, these figures are higher than those recorded between 2005 and 2013, when individual and family premiums rose at a rate of 37 percent and 31 percent, respectively.

Administration officials counter that subsidies will bring those costs down. That is certainly true, but those so-called reductions aren’t reductions at all. They merely shift the part of a premium’s cost from the individual or family insurance consumers to the taxpayers at large. This cost-shifting goes a long way towards explaining why a plan the president and his party promised would cost $900 billion over a decade when it was first introduced, quickly tripled to $2.7 trillion.

--SNIP---rest at frontpagemag.com

[plangent]

Every time the President twiddles with the ACA it becomes more and more Obama’s lawless creature. Ignoring statutes, rewriting whole sections, defying the clear meaning of words...yes, Nancy, it is truly OBAMA-care.

[Liz]

HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO WORK IN DUMMYCRAT UTOPIA
AKA
"IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN. PERIOD."

Once upon a time in Utopia, tolerant compassionate Democrats kindly conferred cheap affordable universal healthcare on us American who are total scum.

Even though we are all rank cowards on the subect of race, for the first time, we undeserving misogynist, racist, homophobic Americans were going to have our health needs taken care of by our benevolent government.

Kindly Democrats (who despise the 1%) conferred cheap health benefits on all of us Americans, not just those intolerant greedsters with money (who create all the jobs that make the economy run smoothly).

Benevolent Democrats in Capitol Hill offices dreamed of millions of formerly uninsured Americans, and their illegal brethren, marching in lockstep to the polls to vote for kindly Democrats---the givers of all good governmental things.

Kindly benevolent Democrats would sail to electoral victory b/c they stood up to the evil insurance-medical-industrial complex on behalf of us cowardly, undeserving Americans.

Peace, happiness and universal well-being would reign over the land.

And we'd all live happily ever after.....even with astronomical deductibles, drug rationing, and I-PAB Death Panels looming in the distance.

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MEMO TO 2014 VOTERS Lock-stepping Democrats, voting in obeisance to Obama, embedded all of this into law:

(1) throwing millions of Americans off affordable health plans,
(2) burdening Americans w/ ruinous deductibles,
(3) nationalizing 1/6 of the US economy,
(4) installing IPAB's (Death Panels),
(5) abandoning seniors and the chronically ill,
(6)pulling $750 out of Medicare,
(7) decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth (grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to you).

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/Obama was a fraud when he first surfaced as the 2008 candidate....said he wanted to be another Reagan (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down) portrayed as a Global Savior. canonized w/ the Nobel Peace Prize. Everything about Obama is a fraud......as far back as 2008, he duped to believe in the fraud known as Obamacare....the damage being done is palpable.

INCONVENIENT FACTOID---Ohaha was spawned from the viper pit of Chicago criminal politics---our WH is/was infested w/ Chicago criminals---these lowlifes never never met a decent, honest person in their entire lives.

INCONVENIENT FACTOID---O's 2008 PR person---Anita "Mao Kiss-up" Dunn---later said they let the media (voters) know only what THEY wanted them to know about Ohaha.

INCONVENIENT FACTOID---O told Putin he'd have more flexibility AFTER his 2012 election---knowing he would win when the campaign had not even begun.

INCONVENIENT FACTOID--- O's political henchman David "I'm Harmless" Axelrod took CBS-TV on a weird tour of 2012 campaign hdq. But nothing was happening. The shady voter fraud work was being conducted in swing states.

THE CHICAGO WAY

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Romney never looked more stupid than when he sap-happily conceded the 20012 race election night---uttering not a word about Repubs being put through Ohaha's massive voter fraud meat-grinder.

[txrefugee]

Where is our family’s $2500 that King Barky promised us?

[bert]

I call it Obamadon’t care

[ronnie raygun]

Affordable care act is a lie wanting so bad to be the truth

[abclily]

You are exactly correct! I thought the next dictated product purchase would be an Obamapanel for turning the sun’s energy into electrical energy.

Which other products might we be ordered to buy? That will depend on which products Obamafriends are manufacturing.

[Junk Silver]

Interestingly enough, I never refer to this particular lady as “Nancy Pelosi”. (Since this is a family forum that’s all I can say...)

[wayoverontheright]

It’s a mistake for the Dems to want us to ditch “Obamacare” for the “Affordable Care Act”.

The word “affordable” is the problem. People now know that the one thing it is not, is affordable. So, in trying to eliminate the taint from the President by virtue of this monstrosity, they further remind people of how they’ve been duped.

It’s the American Cadillac Health Care Mandate. All the bells and whistles, whether you want them or not.

[GBA]

Poor Nancy is becoming quite the freak show in her elder years and perhaps needs a change of prescription or is ready for assisted care.

[VerySadAmerican]

During the debate Obama told Romney he was proud to call it “obamacare”.

[Flick Lives]

“It’s called the Affordable Care Act. It’s called the Affordable Care Act. I know you didn’t intend any compliment or derogatory — it’s called the Affordable Care Act,” the California Democrat adamantly corrected. “Affordable, affordable — there’s a reason — affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable.”

OK, Nancy, lets let this nice man in the nice white suit put this nice little white jacket on you; and take a little sip from this nice little cup; it will help calm you down.

(Right. Got it. FUBOcare, it is!)

[GOPJ]

That’s wonderful... thanks for posting...

Affordable Boat Act

The U.S. government has just passed a new law called “The Affordable Boat
Act” declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat by April 2014.
These “affordable” boats will cost an average of $54,000-$155,000 each.
This does not include taxes, trailers, towing fees, licensing and registration
fees, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance or repair costs.

This law has been passed, because until now, typically only wealthy and
financially responsible people have been able to purchase boats. This new
laws ensures that every American can now have an “affordable” boat of their own, because everyone is “entitled” to a new boat. If you purchase your boat before the end of the year, you will receive 4 “free” life jackets, not including monthly usage fees.

In order to make sure everyone purchases an affordable boat, the costs of
owning a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way,
wealthy people will pay more for something that other people don’t want or
can’t afford to maintain. But to be fair, people who can’t afford to maintain
their boat will be regularly fined and children (under the age of 26) can
use their parents’ boats to party on until they turn 27; then must purchase their own boat.

If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding, no you
can’t). If you don’t want or don’t need a boat, you are required to buy one
anyhow. If you refuse to buy one or can’t afford one, you will be regularly fined$800 until you purchase one or face imprisonment.

Failure to use the boat also will result in fines. People living in the
desert, ghettos, inner cities or areas with no access to lakes are not
exempt. Age, motion sickness, or lack of experience, knowledge or desire are
unacceptable excuses for not using your boat.

A government review board (that doesn’t know the difference between the
port, starboard or stern of a boat) will decide everything, including when,
where, how often and for what purposes you can use your boat, along with
how many people can ride in your boat and determine if one is too old or healthy enough to be able to use their boat. They will also decide if your boat has outlived its usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories (like a $500 compass) or a newer and more expensive boat.

Those who can afford yachts will be required to do so...it’s only fair.
The government will also decide the name for each boat. Failure to comply with these rules will result in fines and possible imprisonment.

Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat,
they and their families can obtain boats free, at the expense of taxpayers. Unions, bankers and mega companies with large political affiliations ($$$) are also exempt.

If the government can force you to buy health care, they can force you to buy a boat....or ANYTHING else..

[Luigi Vasellini]

Great O care facts libs will hate