[pepsionice]

It would be curious to know...this twenty-five million group who didn’t have insurance in 2008....what’s the number today, and why.

If we did all of this....disrupting the lives of millions...so that a lousy two million people got out of the insured bracket....then there’s something fundamentally wrong with the whole concept.

[pepsionice]

It would be curious to know...this twenty-five million group who didn’t have insurance in 2008....what’s the number today, and why.

If we did all of this....disrupting the lives of millions...so that a lousy two million people got out of the insured bracket....then there’s something fundamentally wrong with the whole concept.

[Liz]

NY POST REPORTS: ObamaCare dooming Democrats for the fall (O/Care's Promised Land a Dem dump site)

In 2009, retiring Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry presciently warned that ObamaCare was setting up Democrats for a huge 2010 midterm defeat; just as “HillaryCare” led to Democrat loss of 54 House seats in 1994.

Obama scoffed at such concerns; he told Berry, “Well, the big difference here is you’ve got me.”

Republicans went on to win 63 House seats and six Senate seats.....the largest swing to Repubs in the House since 1938. So Oama was right---the difference was him.

Liberals are still convinced their vision is what America wants and needs and that Obama is the right man to give it to us. Assuming Republicans don’t immolate themselves — always a possibility — that vision will receive yet another massive rebuke in November.

The question will be whether liberals question the soundness of their faith or that the fault lies with the false prophet who failed to deliver them to the promised land.

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"Those Democrats leering over my shoulder owe me bigtime. This
healthcare bill insures we have a permanent Democratic majority."

"All except those Tea Party types, swallowed hook, line and sinker my promises that they could":
(1) keep their existing health plans,
(2) keep their own doctors that they like,
(3) keep their 25-year-olds on the family health plan,
(4) never be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition,
(5) sign up instantly on my tech-savvy government Web site,
(6) buy insurance only after becoming seriously ill."
(7) save $2,500 in annual premiums in the bargain....
(8) All without any new taxes.

"Them sonovagun Tea Partiers will rue the day they criticized my wonderful bill."

[Soul of the South]

Likely the already insured who moved to Obamacare from employer or private plans did so for the subsidies. I’ve noticed a number of people in their 50’s and 60’s post on an early retirement forum they were able to lower their insurance costs through subsidies by dropping their private plans and moving to Obamacare. These people are not yet 65, and are living on savings while waiting for pensions and social security to kick in at 65-67, so they have no earned income to report.

The alleged purpose of Obamacare was to address the “tragedy” of the uninsured in this nation. If the 11% number is correct, it now appears we blew up the health care system in this country, and dramatically increased health insurance costs, to help 220,000 people.

[Pollster1]

That’s unexpected. Who would have guessed that few people who chose not to buy cheap insurance before this terrible law was forced on us would choose to buy the more expensive, high-deductible ObamaCare policies?

[ReaganGeneration2]

Um, but all of those people were previously in substandard plans. /s

[Ben Ficklin]

Murdoch confirming at Fox what he said in the WSJ.

[trebb]

Did they really expect those who didn’t have coverage, but were getting along without the hassle/cost, would actually pay in order to maintain their own particular status quo?

[Williams]

Of course and many were forced into it because Ocare cancelled their policies.

[GOPJ]

LOL