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Kay Hagan: Look, I didn’t realize people would lose their health plans ’til a few months ago
Hotair ^ | Guy Benson

Posted on 09/04/2014 12:03:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

During last night’s North Carolina Senate Debate, incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan responded to criticism over her obliterated ‘keep your plan‘ Obamacare pledge by claiming she didn’t hear about cancellations until “last fall:”

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“As soon as this came to my attention last fall…”

Step one: Blame insurers, who were forced to cancel plans that failed to comply with Obamacare, the law for which Kay Hagan furnished the deciding vote. Step two: Claim that those millions of cancellation letters fell from the sky, as if no one had predicted them. Step three: Try to claim credit for a bill that never became law because Harry Reid wouldn’t even permit a vote on it. (Fun fact: Hagan has never been a primary sponsor on any piece of legislation that went on to become law). Instead, betrayed consumers had to rely on a frantic executive rule change that was rejected by a number of state insurance commissioners because the die had already been cast. But here is a short, devastating passage from an October 2013 CNN story that exposes Hagan’s ‘I didn’t realize’ deception:

Senate Democrats voted unanimously three years ago to support the Obamacare rule that is largely responsible for some of the health insurance cancellation letters that are going out. In September 2010, Senate Republicans brought a resolution to the floor to block implementation of the grandfather rule, warning that it would result in canceled policies and violate President Barack Obama’s promise that people could keep their insurance if they liked it…On a party line vote, Democrats killed the resolution, which could come back to haunt vulnerable Democrats up for re-election this year. Senate Democrats like Mary Landrieu, Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Pryor, Kay Hagan and Mark Begich – all of whom voted against stopping the rule from going into effect and have since supported delaying parts of Obamacare.

Hagan didn’t just vote for the provision that triggered mass cancellations; when Republicans offered a resolution to spare consumers from that rule’s consequences, Hagan voted in lock step with her fellow Democrats to bury it. She was warned explicitly about this issue at the time and chose to side with Barack Obama and Harry Reid against North Carolinians. (Hagan votes with Obama 96 percent of the time). And now, she’s trying to cover her ass by shamelessly lying about her actions, just as she shamelessly and repeatedly lied to citizens by telling them they’d be able to retain their preferred health coverage under Obamacare. Republican nominee Thom Tillis needs to hold Hagan’s feet to the fire on this bogus excuse. The CNN story excerpted above is a smoking gun. While we’re on the subject of shameless Obamacare-related lies and smoking guns, check out this story in today’s Denver Post:

Republican operatives believe they have found a smoking gun against Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, who said during a 2008 debate he was against a “government-sponsored” solution for health care. The then-congressman, who was running for an open seat in the U.S. Senate, echoed arguments made by conservatives. “I’m not for a government-sponsored solution,” Udall said. “I’m for enhancing and improving the employer-based system that we have.” In a debate overshadowed by other issues — rising energy prices and the war on terror — Udall’s answer that July barely created a ripple. But in the context of Sen. Udall’s vote for the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and his tough re-election bid against Republican Congressman Cory Gardner in November, the statement takes on new meaning…”Mark Udall was elected on a lie,” Gardner said. “Mark Udall promised he would not support a government-sponsored solution and he broke that promise and voted for Obamacare.” Udall’s campaign says if Republicans believe they have found a smoking gun, they’re simply shooting themselves in the foot because Obamacare is not government-run health care. “They are grasping at straws,” Udall spokeswoman Kristin Lynch said.

Um, Udall told voters he would oppose government-sponsored healthcare solutions, and Obamacare clearly fits that bill. Team Udall can parse whether or not the new law is technically tantamount to government-run healthcare (it’s undeniably an unprecedented federal intrusion into the healthcare markets, with the government micromanaging the “private” market like never before, and requiring every citizen to buy a product), but that misdirection won’t change the fact that he vowed not to support a government-sponsored regime. During the Obamacare debate, Udall endorsed a so-called “public option,” an even more explicit form of government-sponsored healthcare. Oops. His 2008 answer also committed to “enhancing and improving” the employer-based system. How’s that working out? The Obama administration’s internal projections anticipated that 93 million Americans would be displaced from their existing coverage under Obamacare, with a key architect of the law bragging that the employer-based system is being destroyed:

“Analysts predict [Obamacare] will be the end of employer-provided insurance, with former Obama adviser Zeke Emanuel writing that 80 percent of such plans will disappear within ten years.”

Emanuel insists that the implosion of the employer-based system will be “better for people.” In fairness, some conservative policy wonks have been seeking to transition away from the employer-based system for some time, in order to make health coverage portable and enhance cost-controlling competition — but none of that nuance was anywhere to be found in Democrats’ Obamacare sales pitch. The public was assured over and over again by people like Hagan and Udall that they could keep their plans. Period. That promise has been, and will continue to be, exposed as absolutely false. Polling indicates that roughly twice as many Americans say they’ve been personally hurt by Obamacare than helped, with most people responding that they haven’t been affected. Let’s see how the numbers on that last category move as employer-provided plans start to vanish.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: bs; kayhagen; northcarolina; obamacare; senate
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To: F15Eagle

The stunned look on the faces of liberals who will see their 40-hour work weeks cut to 28 hours or less.

And most ... still ... won’t ... be ... able ... to ... figure ... it ... out.


You are exactly right. The blame will NEVER be placed where it belongs by libs.


21 posted on 09/04/2014 12:26:11 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure You didn’t Kay, You RAT!


22 posted on 09/04/2014 12:26:24 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Yet, here's the result of the latest poll:

Polling in U.S. Senate race shows Hagan, Tillis locked in a tie
23 posted on 09/04/2014 12:28:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We tried to tell you, idiot.


24 posted on 09/04/2014 12:29:56 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Lord, what FOOLS these mortals be"
25 posted on 09/04/2014 12:30:03 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: SeekAndFind

Lying EXEMPT, who made themselves EXEMPT, with
their families and their staff, and ALL MOSLEMS.


26 posted on 09/04/2014 12:30:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: SeekAndFind

People have also lost the money they were supposed to save with the 0bamacare scam.

Then, there’s the whole income tax thing that’s going to ramp up from 2015 on.

But sure, she didn’t know. She didn’t know the people have caught on.


27 posted on 09/04/2014 12:30:40 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: SeekAndFind

DIMs/LIBs are chronically dishonest. Such liars will lie. What’s new under the sun?


28 posted on 09/04/2014 12:33:47 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind

You are a democrat, so we know you are lying. It is the democrat way...sorta like...”If you like your health-care plan you can keep it.”, and, “If you like your doctor you can keep it.” The most exasperating thing is why the rest of the country cannot understand that to continue to vote democrat is just going to bring more of the same.


29 posted on 09/04/2014 12:35:20 PM PDT by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, democrats and especially Kagan are lying pieces of garbage. Everybody knows that.


30 posted on 09/04/2014 12:35:53 PM PDT by subterfuge (Hey NSA snoop, get a real job you idiot!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Kay Hagan, Lying Idiot


31 posted on 09/04/2014 12:42:59 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess she passed the bill to find out what was in it


32 posted on 09/04/2014 12:46:17 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: leapfrog0202

If Obama loses the Senate, he will put off the Employer Mandate until after the 2016 election.


33 posted on 09/04/2014 12:49:16 PM PDT by Phil
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To: Gen.Blather

Any background info on that deciding vote? I don’t recall hearing about that before.


34 posted on 09/04/2014 12:51:18 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: ken in texas

It was from an article I read on it at the time (2006). The article was on the stances and reasoning of the people who had voted. I recalled that the rep from Detroit had made the comment, quoted in the article, and how ridiculous it seemed. Here’s an article about the CAFE standards from that time.

http://grist.org/article/cafe1/


35 posted on 09/04/2014 12:56:17 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ScottinVA

OTOH, I haven’t seen any anger about Obamacare leading up to the November elections. The Repubs are simply incompetent.


36 posted on 09/04/2014 12:59:40 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Gen.Blather

Thanks.


37 posted on 09/04/2014 1:05:52 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: RightGeek

Yikes! She is ugly too.


38 posted on 09/04/2014 1:06:22 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Phil

You’re right. I hope to heavens that if he loses the Senate, the Rs can find their cojones and put this man in jail, along with Holder.


39 posted on 09/04/2014 1:08:05 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: F15Eagle

She must be as dumb as a post—if she didn’t know this—Don’t vote for dumb people! Take this vow—Repeat after me: “I will never in this life, ever , vote for a Democrat again!” Now write it down and post on your bathroom mirror—say it 10 times each day til November 3rd.


40 posted on 09/04/2014 1:33:45 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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