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.”
Good point.
For the purpose of destroying the existing system.
THE FREE MARKET IS OUR PLAN!
Planning sucks. See Friederich Hayek, Nobel Prize Winning Economist.
No set of Planners, anywhere, can possibly direct resources as people need. Free markets can.
No Plan is therefore superior to your Plan, Mr. 0bama.
Actually, haven’t several Republicans floated health-care proposals? Which, if passed, Obama would veto. Where are the WaPo fact-checkers? Too busy fact-checking Republican jokes?
We’re just getting all the 31 changes into it before we pass it, Bammy.
Restoring the World-Class health care system that we had before it was wrecked by Obamacare would be a good start.
He's basically announcing what he's done. Give the man credit. He'll steal from the cookie jar, then, when caught, rabidly decries those awful cookie thieves.
GASLIGHT SITREP
Not at your meetings? Not on the golf course?
https://abetterway.speaker.gov/_assets/pdf/ABetterWay-HealthCare-PolicyPaper.pdf
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