Posted on 07/18/2019 11:37:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Joe Biden, who was vice president when President Obama reportedly fixed everything wrong with health insurance in America by signing Obamacare into law, just this week dusted off his old boss’s line at an AARP event, telling attendees, “If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If you like your private insurance, you can keep it.”
That same line coming from Obama’s mouth was awarded “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, but what’s important is it pits Biden, the alleged moderate, against his socialist competitors who are demanding nothing less than Medicare for All and the elimination of private health insurance.
Of course, America was wondering what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought of all this, and she replied that no one would be heartbroken to lose their private health insurance. Private health insurance is a for-profit business, which makes it a bad thing … doesn’t it?
.@AOC, asked about warnings from Joe Biden on Medicare for All, says nobody is “heartbroken” at the idea of losing private insurance.
“People like their health care, they like their doctor,” she says. “But I’d be interested in what the public polling on Aetna would look like.”
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 17, 2019
No, she wouldn’t. She wants to eliminate the entire industry — why would she care what the American people think?
This keeps being passed off as a truism, but the polling on private insurance exists and is surprisingly strong. Similar to people who hate Congress, but liking THEIR member, people tend to like their plans. https://t.co/6veylWs7Zx
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 17, 2019
Example https://t.co/24ekN1MDyA
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 17, 2019
She should speak for herself.
— Ernestine (@SexyNurse0987) July 17, 2019
WRONG! AND POLITICIANS SHOULD NOT PRESUME TO TELL PEOPLE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT ANYTHING. Interestingly- support for MFA drops drastically when those being polled are told they would have to give up their private insurance.
— joy moody (@juniormoody4) July 17, 2019
For the 842nd time. Y'all really want a second term for @realDonaldTrump, don't you? https://t.co/mx3w3dVPEL
— reedgalen (@reedgalen) July 17, 2019
i absolutely love my employee provided insurance and i will take up arms if im forced to go to medicare for all, which is absolute trash https://t.co/j1uw4CGVBu
— John (@John_Faker) July 17, 2019
My family has been kept afloat for 15 years because of our insurance.
AOC again showing her spoiled and privileged, bourgeois background.
And those two statements are not in any way related to each other.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
What right does some bartender from Queens have to take away my family's insurance, or anyone else's?
The arrogance is astonishing.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
Eliminating private insurance is an extremist, unpopular position with massive economic and health ramifications.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
This "squad" of freshmen all live in a privileged bubble.
They get access to top education, live in wealthy cities, and have been surrounded by like-minded individuals their entire lives.
They need to stop proclaiming what society wants and start understanding what society is
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
Go this route and you're going to lose the majority.
IN EVERY. SINGLE. POLL. The public is fine with making Medicare universally available, NOT with eliminating private insurance.
You talk about "little guys" but want to make our decisions for us.
Get bent.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
Let me spell it out for you: your Dem +60 district is a bubble.
The country is not comprised of college towns. This is a great way to lose the suburbs you just won in 2018.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
I encourage you to get off Twitter and TV and go tour the nation.
You'll find out pretty damn quick how unpopular that attitude is.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
AOC and Co get (deserved) defenses from most people because the president is a scumbag.
Then they go and say elitist bullshit like this and discount how clear majorities of voters feel because we're "ideologically beneath" them.
— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019
Could that be the dumbest one yet? A woman who has never had to face a serious health or insurance crisis is going to tell the rest of America what it needs or wants? https://t.co/yUQYryxSkf
— LastAmericanOptimist (@bpeithmann_) July 17, 2019
Clueless https://t.co/YtJNoOql4p
— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) July 17, 2019
Well not free. Your paying for it with yours and other peoples taxes
FU, jackass. The ACA is an expensive nightmare!
Sentence was unnecessarily long.......
I don’t have a lot but I do have great health care insurance so AOC can go blow her remaining brain cells out with a pea shooter.
As long as The Squat keeps their mugs in front of a camera, they will be cemented into the American people’s minds as ‘The Face of the Democrat Party’.
President Trump will continue provoking them and they will continue to make fools of themselves. they can’t help themselves, they are leftist commies. That’s what they do.
They follow Alinsky’s Rules and Trump uses them better than they do..............
Commies cant stand it when Alinsky like tactics are thrown right back in their face
Tell our white trash 'elites' THEY have to be on the same system BY LAW and it'll be over. Even Bernie won't sit in some waiting room for 8 hours to see a doctor that it took 2 months to get an appointment with.
Corrupt liberals elites will NEVER go for this if they know it's gonna be inflicted on them and NOT just on us.
I’ve never see a dog as stupid as this woman.
I won’t be heartbroken but I’ll be really pissed off.
Just last week Idiot Joe PROMISED "If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance". He wouldn't lie, would he? /sarc
Is she exempt as usual? #exemptocrats
Wonder if she’s ever had to pay for private health insurance?
Have honest Joe mention that in his acceptance speech to the convention this campaign. Great line do it!
I’d like Occasional-Kotex to tell me which government programs, if any, have been run without vast inefficiency and widespread corruption.
Alinsky called his book “Rules for Radicals”.
He didn’t call it “Rules for Left-wing Radicals Only”..................
Female dog with a capital “C” ... as are all America-haters in positions of power regardless of how they identify their gender at any given moment.
probably not...................
When the government runs healthcare, it tells you what treatment you can have and not have. Medicare does this by paying or not paying for certain treatments.
Government has the power to decide if you live or die.
Give government the power, and it will give free care to aids patients, abortions, sex-”change” operations, and euthanasia, and refuse to pay for cancer care for those over 85.
Do not doubt me.
She means she doesn’t care
Heartbroken - what a stupid, emotional, snowflake millenial term. Nobody is “heartbroken” over loss of a service. Heartbroken is when your gal leaves, or your dog dies.
Bloody mad is what will happen. Or pissed off. Spot on, taxcontrol.
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