Posted on 01/13/2015 12:47:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The recent successes of the Affordable Care Act pose a challenge for the right, at least in theory. The more “Obamacare” works effectively, and the more Republican predictions are discredited, the more difficult it should be for conservatives to deny what is plainly true.
And yet, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) doesn’t seem to mind. The Texas Republican delivered some predictable red meat at the Heritage Action Conservative Policy Summit yesterday, taking aim at the health care law he loves to hate.
Obamacare, he asserted, has wrought “devastation.” He called it a “train wreck” that has cost millions of Americans their jobs or access to doctors of their choice, and forced employers to roll back working hours.
I find rhetoric like this fascinating because it’s so completely detached from reality. If the ACA were really causing “devastation” – and “millions” of U.S. job losses, as Cruz claimed yesterday – it’d be pretty obvious.
It’s not. What is obvious is the law has quickly improved the uninsured rate while producing impressive results on premiums, customer satisfaction rates, the lowest increase in health care spending in 50 years, the growing number of insurers who want to participate in exchange marketplaces, high enrollment totals with consumers who paid their premiums, the efficacy of Medicaid expansion, the efficacy of the medical-loss ratio, and reduced medical errors system-wide....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
Well, I have a new experience; my new doctors are convinced I’m about ready to keel over any minute now and they can’t abide the fact that I might fall and break my hip.
Never mind that in 2010, I broke not only my ankle, but I shattered all the bones in my left foot. I went back to work in 3 months.
But .. just to make it a little more scary .. they have both told me I have to take prescription drugs that have the same warning: “Severe/rare allergic reaction - swelling of the face, throat and tongue”. I’ve already been there and done that .. and I will not take these meds.
So, according to ObamaCare - they expect me to take two medications which will most probably make me choke to death .. BUT HOPEFULLY WHEN I FALL OVER FROM LACK OF OXYGEN - I WON’T BREAK MY HIP.
Now .. the doctor I used to have .. he was so wonderful .. and aware of this allergy .. and gave me other tools to help me get through my life without drugs.
I’m, of course, refusing to take this stuff .. and I may have to change doctors. Don’t know yet .. I’m just too damn mad to talk to anybody right now.
He and pajama boy have matching bathrobes and slippers.
” Obamacare, he asserted, has wrought “devastation.” He called it a “train wreck” that has cost millions of Americans their jobs or access to doctors of their choice, and forced employers to roll back working hours.
I find rhetoric like this fascinating because it’s so completely detached from reality. “
Has this moron asked the smart people at harvard about obama care?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3244425/posts
Or has he actually talked to the working poor that have had their hours cut precisely because of Obama Care????
Freekin Idiot!
Who or what is he married to? That silly @zz grin suggests it may not be to a woman.
WTH is that thing?!?
“Steve Benen is a producer for MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and an MSNBC contributor.
Before joining MSNBC, Benen was a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly, headlining the “Political Animal” blog. His background includes writing for a variety of publications, including Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, and Salon.com. He is also the former publisher of The Carpetbagger Report.
Benen has been a frequent on-air media guest, appearing on several national television and radio programs. In July 2009, The Atlantic named Benen one of the top 50 most influential political commentators in the United States.
Benen got his Master’s degree at the George Washington University while interning in President Clinton’s White House. He has experience writing for several congressional campaigns and having been part of the communications department at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.”
There is no good in this rat.
My families insurance tripled in cost and the loser across the way pays nothing for theirs. That is a cluster F.
It's actually a sculpture. It was made to look wicked and put into a bottle. I figure that it represents Zerocare close enough.
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