Posted on 10/28/2013 8:11:35 AM PDT by don-o
Incoming from Democrats:
"Dem Party is F****d." That was the subject line of an email sent to me Sunday by a senior Democratic consultant with strong ties to the White House and Capitol Hill. The body of the email contained a link to this Los Angeles Times story about Obamacare "sticker shock:"
"These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the healthcare market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years."
"Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama's signature legislation."
In his story, reporter Chad Terhune also quoted a letter sent to a California insurance company executive. "I was all for Obamacare," wrote a young woman complaining about a 50 percent rate hike related to the health care law, "until I found out I was paying for it."
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The Democratic consultant said none of this is news to him, but he wonders why Obama wasn't honest with Americans. He predicted surprise and outrage over higher costs and lesser coverage. "We will own this problem forever," the Democrat wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
If the Democrats’ upper-middle-class educated urban liberal base deserts them, who will they have left?
Of course, many of these people have insurance through their employers and will not be impacted. But just try ‘tax reform’, with the elimination of the deductions that these people typically use.
The Dems needn’t worry; the middle class will never figure out what hit them.
The ‘Rat party is not necessarily “F’d”-up.
At some point, they pass the rubicon, where nothing that the remaining Patriots/TPs/Conservatives do matters anymore, where the fed leviathon can just quickly grow/print/borrow and get massively more hard-tyrannical.
If/when that point is reached, no manner of shark-jumping need matter anymore. The ‘Rats and GOP-E rule. Hard Rule.
Pain is known to be an excellent teacher.
As long as it affects the other guy no one is concerned. Within the next few months everyone is going to know just how much this is costing them. This is the handwriting on the wall.
Not to worry. The ‘main stream’ GOP will ensure the democraps are never labeled with this failure.
Mexicans.
“I wanted my Obamacare check every month. Now they tell me I have to pay!!!”
Sounds like SerpentHead.
He is a dangerously loonie person but he does a good job at identifying problems EARLY before they become big problems.
Not true!! many people who remain on their employers policy will see their rates explode!!
changing tagline
They will lose middle-class women. That’s going to KILL them.
And what candidates do we have to offer the Dems as an alternative. Therein lies the problem.
"I was all for Obamacare, until I found out I was paying for it."
Gee kind of makes Ted Cruz look like the genius he is now doesn’t it? At least HE was smart enough to know that a government shutdown over a stand AGAINST Obamacare would make an impact into peoples heads that Obamacare was ALL Democrat.
“Dem Party is F****d.”
Just in time for the midterms.
That point has already been passed. The tipping point was likely allowing the ACA to be called “Constitutional”. Even without that travesty we were well on our way to ruin.
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