Posted on 03/25/2015 9:25:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Five years after the passage of his signature healthcare law, President Obama took a jab at the Republican party for still lacking their own plan to replace it.
“We have been promised a lot of things these past five years that didn’t turn out to be the case,” Obama said at a White House event marking the healthcare law’s progress.“Death panels. Doom. A serious alternative from Republicans in Congress.”
He also joked that ObamaCare could not have happened without the help of Republicans. He said his law was influenced by healthcare reform plans from “a guy named Mitt Romney” and the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation.
“The Affordable Care Act was their plan before I adopted it,” Obama said. “If they want to take credit for this law, they can. I’m happy to share it.”
Obama has consistently chided congressional Republicans for voting more than 50 times to repeal pieces of his healthcare law without offering a full replacement plan. Republicans argue that they have introduced several frameworks for healthcare reform.
The GOP push for an ObamaCare "plan B" has intensified in the wake of a Supreme Court case that threatens to gut the healthcare law this spring. A half dozen plans are now underway from senior Republicans including House Ways and Means Committee Chairmen Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.).
At the White House gathering to mark the law’s fifth anniversary, Obama said it is working “without a shred of a doubt.”
“It’s working despite countless attempts to repeal, undermine, defund and defame this law,” Obama said, rattling off numbers that show the country’s declining uninsured rate and the declining costs of the country’s healthcare overall.
He also warned the “folks who are basing their entire political agenda on repealing the law” to get a new strategy – an unstated reference to the Tea Party and 2016 candidates like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
“You’ve got to explain why kicking millions of people off their insurance is somehow going to make us more free,” he said. “Or why forcing millions of families to pay millions of dollars more is somehow going to make us more secure.”
“We have been promised a lot of things these past five years that didn’t turn out to be the case,”
MAKE THAT SIX YEARS!!
If the system was working (before Obama and the Democrats destroyed it), then why would you need a “plan?”
Well, giving Iran the bomb isn’t going to fit in anybody’s healthcare plan.
I hope the RINOS don’t play into this BS. The purpose of government isn’t to have opposing healthcare plans or to see who can be the bigger sugar daddy or who can out lib whom.
His mouth is moving again.
He is such a LIAR. I really wanted to use curse words to describe what kind of LIAR he is but just use your imagination.
The Republican Congress put a Healthcare Bill forward years ago and it went nowhere. Obama lies again.
Oh, the RINOs fully ascribe to big gov’t, preferably with them in charge.
That the gov’t shouldn’t be involved is as foreign to them as it is to the Dems.
Here is the problem. It’s not the government’s job to create heathcare plans in the first place. Neither side of the aisle seems to know that. That in itself is grounds to have them removed from office.
“You’ve got to explain why kicking millions of people off their insurance is somehow going to make us more free,” he said. “Or why forcing millions of families to pay millions of dollars more is somehow going to make us more secure.”
This is what ObamaCare has done is it not?
“You’ve got to explain why kicking millions of people off their insurance is somehow going to make us more free,”
Back at ya, A-Hole! Millions that HAD insurance were kicked off the plans they liked for your more expensive mandated plans, or none at all because they couldn’t afford them.
Psst! Dude, you shouldn’t campaign for president until you convince congress to amend the constitution to allow a third term.
IT called the free market plan.
Here’s THE PLAN
Go to the Dr. when you are sick.
Pay cash for services rendered on your way out the door.
If you are an illegal alien and you get sick go back home.
(in fact - go back home even if you aren’t sick)
New day, new lie...
We already had a healthcare plan until you destroyed it.
Who’s going to stop him?
Industrial Grade Stupidity:
Believing Barack Obama’s promise that health care will cost less if you insert a $3 Trillion Dollar Healthcare Insurance industry and a $2 Trillion dollar bloated government bureaucracy in the system between the patient and the doctor.
Hillary.
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