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Dayton: Health Law 'No Longer Affordable'
KSTP.com ^ | 10/12/16 | AP

Posted on 10/12/2016 12:21:00 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Minnesota's Democratic governor said Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act is "no longer affordable," a stinging critique from a state leader who strongly embraced the law just a few years ago.

Gov. Mark Dayton made the comments while addressing questions about Minnesota's fragile health insurance market, where individual plans are facing double-digit increases after all insurers threatened to exit the market entirely in 2017.

They follow cost concerns and criticism nationwide, including President Bill Clinton saying last week that the law was "the craziest thing in the world" before he backtracked.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; 0careoutofcontrol; dayton; markdayton; mngovernor; obamacare; obamacarecosts; obamacareinsurers; obamacarepremiums
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Even Governor Goofball finally figured it out.
1 posted on 10/12/2016 12:21:00 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Last ditch coordinated attempt by Dems to save Hillary, by admitting it is a failure to try to take the issue away from Trump... Too Little too late.

Bubba floated the its okay to critique it in Ohio last week... the rest are not following suit.


2 posted on 10/12/2016 12:23:19 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
This is from back when the so-called Blue Dogs were doing their Hamlet act about whether to vote for Obamacare or not:



I'd just like to say - I told you so.
3 posted on 10/12/2016 12:25:05 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No longer? It’s been an issue for many since its inception.


4 posted on 10/12/2016 12:25:48 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Well, the Democrat activist types managed to get their AIDS drug cocktails paid for by the white middle class - so I guess that’s all that matters.


5 posted on 10/12/2016 12:27:05 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

That dolt Dayton should have known this when Nazi Pelosi said we have to pass it before we tell you what’s in it.


6 posted on 10/12/2016 12:29:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Following the Democrat script.
Time to pivot to Single Payer.

“We thought we could work with the private insurance industry to provide all Americans with affordable health care. But they were too EEEEEVIL and GRRRRREEEDY. So time
for us to take it over.”


7 posted on 10/12/2016 12:30:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Drip, drip, drip. One more think that makes us all less secure.

Constant tension, constant uncertainty, constant turmoil. Why hasn’t someone recognized we have all the makings of traumatic stress as a nation, at least for the taxpayers of us.


8 posted on 10/12/2016 12:35:06 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Unaffordable for whom?

Certainly unaffordable for those who pay their own premiums and deductibles.

But for those getting subsidies or on expanded Medicaid, the unaffordability is for the taxpayers.


9 posted on 10/12/2016 12:35:41 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

It has clearly and demonstrably driven up healthcare costs and insurance premiums, both, while sending many doctors into early retirement.


10 posted on 10/12/2016 12:41:39 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

It wasn’t designed to be affordable. It was designed to be disruptive.


11 posted on 10/12/2016 12:46:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So, Mr. 55%-Approval-Rating lied to us?

Oh, ye suckers.
- G. Gordon Liddy


12 posted on 10/12/2016 12:47:29 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No he knew. This is just moving to phase 2 as planned.

Moving on to single payer, as always planned from the beginning. This time was needed togive them plausible denial/excuse to go there.

Most here knew this was the strategy.


13 posted on 10/12/2016 12:56:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Trumpcare is the only thing that looks like it has a chance of reversing this bureaucratic parasite job now.


14 posted on 10/12/2016 1:11:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Congress exempted themselves from obamacare. You pay for their healthcare along with a big fat pension if and when they retire.


15 posted on 10/12/2016 1:18:08 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “They just didn’t understand how we could save money on this by adding more people to the system, how it was going to impact them in terms of their premiums and their access to care.”


16 posted on 10/12/2016 1:19:36 PM PDT by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., “The more people find out what’s in there, the happier they are.”


17 posted on 10/12/2016 1:25:02 PM PDT by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No Republican fingerprints on the disastrous Obamacare fiasco - tee hee hee. Dayton pushed for this and it’s another Democrat fail. What’ll happen to the USA if Hillary gets in the White House? I hate to think.


18 posted on 10/12/2016 1:46:03 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Obamacare is solid gold for Trump. Give EO 8 year waver. Next elections if Dems win then the taxes go up 10 fold again.


19 posted on 10/12/2016 2:21:42 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Oh, Please, Dayton knew the deal from the get go. It was never meant to work. He knows that. The only one who didn’t seem to know that was Chief Judas Roberts.


20 posted on 10/12/2016 2:23:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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