Posted on 12/03/2013 1:00:22 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama declared Tuesday that ObamaCare "is working" and that "we're not going back," as the White House looked to reboot its efforts to sell Americans on the president's signature healthcare law.
Obama said that "poor execution" of the rollout of HealthCare.gov had "clouded" the benefits of the bill, but said he would not allow technical glitches to undermine a program that was providing financial security for many Americans.
"If I've got to fight another three years to make sure this law works, that's what we'll do," Obama said.
"We're not repealing it as long as I'm president," he added. "I want everybody to be clear about that. We'll make it work."
The president, flanked by supporters who had benefited from aspects of the law, vacillated between a defense of his embattled program and a sales pitch intended to highlight some of ObamaCare's benefits for ordinary families.
Obama shared stories of individuals who had been helped by provisions of the law that allowed those under 26 to remain on their parents' health insurance, or receive free preventive care.
Acknowledging that the benefits of the program had "gotten lost a little bit," the president urged attendees to tell their friends and families about the law's success stories.
"It's working better now and it's just going to keep on working better over time," Obama said.
In his remarks, the president shied away from directly addressing more recent critiques of the ObamaCare website, including reports that the portal was continuing to provide insurers with error-riddled enrollment information. Obama did say that as new problems arose, the administration would address them.
"Whatever comes up, we're going to fix it," he said, adding later that the White House had " learned not to make wild promises about how perfectly smooth it's going to be."
The president also chastised critics of the law, saying Republicans "haven't presented an alternative" that would address flaws of the pre-ObamaCare system. He singled out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), saying the Republican leader "refused to answer" when asked what his alternate proposal was.
"He just repeated 'repeal' over and over and over again," Obama said.
Earlier Tuesday, McConnell said the president's "campaign-style event won’t solve the myriad problems facing consumers under ObamaCare."
“The American people have been learning about the impact ObamaCare will have on individuals and families in the form of higher premiums, disrupted insurance, and lost jobs—more broken promises from the administration. And they’re becoming increasingly aware of the fact ObamaCare is broken beyond repair," McConnell said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that the president's event was the first of many in a "renewed effort to refocus the public and the public's attention on the benefits of the law."
Carney said that in the coming days, the president and other White House officials would talk about existing benefits under ObamaCare, including insurance plans mandating free preventive care, ending discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, and the curbed growth in healthcare costs.
The White House spokesman said that sales effort would use "a number of different venues," including press events and Internet advertising campaigns.
"This is an opportunity now that the website is functioning effectively for the vast majority of users and we are seeing high volume and high volume being handled effectively by the website and people enrolling that it's an opportune time to talk about, again, the actual benefits that are provided by the law," Carney said.
I hope that this "Captain Ahab" meets the same fate.
Yeah, but not everybody works for the gubmint or Bam's corrupt-and-crony biz friends.
HF
Away With My Heart ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKHx6NivzU
Was that in the bill or a clause recently grabbed out of Sebulius butt to add it?
Its also a form of repatriation, thats a large part of his plan.
Hope you don’t have a heart attack in the next three years while they are ‘fixing’ what took five years to create.
Phhhttt!
Obama you are narcissist idealogue that chooses to destroy freedom in America. You DO NOT keep and defend the Constitution.
You should have been impeached years ago. America is in a total uproar because of you. Go Away and take your Dem Senators with you, jackass.
zer0 guesses he wanted us more ... am ready to disappoint.
That analogy is ripe for the graphics masters.
I highly doubt that was in the bill, and like you say, pulled out of her ass.
I’d say you would have to be a rabid and insane liberal to actually vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name after taking a big one in the shorts over this fiasco. Those liberals exist, but make noise disproportional to their size.
pfl
Yeah, like the laws of the Medes and the Persians, "which altereth not". I recall Darius' czars and advisors trotting that one out when they came up with a statute purposely crafted so that Daniel could be tossed into the lions' den.
Let’s see how well people think obamare is “working’ when hundreds, thousands and maybe even tens of thousands of folks start being killed by obamacare towards the end of January when they no longer have medical insurance or medical care from their doctors because obamacare cancelled their insurance and they were unable to obtain comparable insurance or medical care.
I’m talking about chronically ill people who are being kept alive by highly specialized treatments by highly specialized doctors in highly specialized treatment centers. You don’t treat cancer, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, childhood genetic diseases, and thousands of other such diseases in the ER.
Those are the people who will truly suffer and die because their existing insurance has been cancelled and they are unable to sign up for new insurance, or unable to afford new insurance, or are offered only policies that no longer include their existing specialized care givers.
Obama and the Democrats are going to have blood on their hands if they persist in trying to implement their totally unworkable legislation when it starts to kill innocent children. We need to show the nation that blood so we can end this horror.
Good question!
Have a nice day.
And, oh yeah. The Tea Party is coming for the Democraps and Collaborators.
Thanks...no threats...but sometimes “sh*t happens€...but unlike Kennedy...nobamas on the inside...he is safe from an inside coup d’eta...but a revolution???
he wouldn’t have gotten this far with all the lies and protection in finding out who he really is if he wasn’t good with the insiders...hell we would have never been elected the first time...probably both votes were contrived...in fact he was picked by the elite insiders because he is black...and can’t be touched...to run this country and our system into the ground for the final push into socialism, one world government and the final push to end our Federation of States
and when thet do........
We've only got one with those kind of stones, and his name is Ted. We'll see if AG Abbott has anything to say about any of this. Seems to me he's been awfully quiet lately. Too quiet.
“I’d settle for only 1/2 of the administration serving prison time.”
I’d settle for 5% ever getting out alive.
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