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Obamacare Is Now on Life Support
The Fiscal Times ^ | 10 Dec, 2015 | Edward Morrissey

Posted on 12/10/2015 6:58:51 PM PST by MtnClimber

Democrats gained the political muscle to push the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through Congress on three basic arguments.

First, they argued that the United States had too many uninsured people, with estimates ranging from 30 million to 45 million.

Second, the rise in costs for health care outstripped inflation, and the market required an intervention that would bend the cost curve downward.

Third, Democrats claimed that insurance companies made too much profit and shorted most consumers on care, while those with generous health plans - so-called "Cadillac plans" - drove up utilization rates and costs for everyone else.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albartross; deathcare; elections; epicfail; gope; hillary; hillarycare; obama; obamacare; romney; romneycare; socialism
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To: MtnClimber

Demonrats will continue to defend it. Nothing is more important than deflecting criticism from their votes and the first half Black President whom hailed the great achievement. Country be damned.


21 posted on 12/10/2015 8:11:38 PM PST by DAC21 (.z)
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To: Zhang Fei

It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if you took both of them out.

Bring back major medical and make it truly affordable. For the low income uninsured, the states could offer sliding scale subsidized premium of the same product.

It should be totally means tested.

The uninsurable should be covered by a high risk pool.


22 posted on 12/10/2015 8:13:10 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: headstamp 2

“All at the barrel of a gun of course”

And unelected Black Robes, FU Roberts.


23 posted on 12/10/2015 8:15:21 PM PST by DAC21 (.z)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Just saying. We didn’t have everyone covered, so Obamacare came along. If we had everyone covered, it wouldn’t have.

Do you really think obamacare is about providing health insurance coverage?

24 posted on 12/10/2015 8:21:57 PM PST by fellowpatriot
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

“Bring back major medical and make it truly affordable.”

AMEN!

I had a nice Hospital policy that covered virtually everything after a 5K deductible for under 300 a month before Sh**Care.

I’ll take care of the doctor office visits myself.


25 posted on 12/10/2015 8:22:26 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: MtnClimber
Probably designed to fail so the Dems can implement "single payer" government run so-called health care.

That is exactly my own view!

26 posted on 12/10/2015 8:56:55 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: AmericanExceptionalist
0bama said he wanted single payer, but the realities show it will take a few steps.

In Venezuela, the socialists blame the country's failure on "not enough communism."

27 posted on 12/10/2015 9:00:46 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: fhayek

There are already more Republicans in office than at any time since 1928. There’s another election next year. We’ll see how many more Dem office holders are removed by the voters.


28 posted on 12/10/2015 9:18:48 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: MtnClimber

This is exactly so. “Obamacare” was designed to fail so as to create a clamor for conventional government-delivered socialized medicine. That was the plan all along. That is why they didn’t care that they passed it in the dead of night. It is why our last chance to slow the American decline toward socialist tyranny was the 2012 election, and we missed.

It is over except for the crying. The death of America is baked into the cake.


29 posted on 12/10/2015 10:10:28 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: MtnClimber
0bama said he wanted single payer, but the realities show it will take a few steps.

I think that a single-payer system is a horrible idea--but probably not quite so bad as ObamaCare.

If we get a Republican president next, I do hope that the ACA can be repealed...

30 posted on 12/10/2015 10:34:28 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“We didn’t have everyone covered, so Obamacare came along.

If we had everyone covered, it wouldn’t have.”

You’re delusional if you don’t think that everyone had their medical needs met pre-Obamacare! A lot of people went to the emergency room, and then stiffed the hospital for the costs, but they received care. Now with Obamacare, the one’s being stiffed are all of us who work for a living through the exhorbitant premiums Obamacare brought with it. But hey, as a 75 year-old male, I can get an abortion, so life is good right?


31 posted on 12/10/2015 10:49:47 PM PST by vette6387
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To: vetvetdoug

Try liberty health share. Google it. You might just love it. I learned about it from FReepers too.


32 posted on 12/10/2015 10:52:24 PM PST by Yaelle (Trump Cruz 2016)
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To: MtnClimber

But we shouldn’t be rooting for it to fail? Because then we get single payer?


33 posted on 12/10/2015 11:04:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: MtnClimber

i used to be covered by my firm. This past June they stopped because they were only covering some workers and they would have been fined had they continued. I now pay $1200 a month for coverage with no offsetting compensation. Obamacare gave me a $14,400 a year pay cut. Its made every month a struggle to stay afloat. Not a month by now where i don’t have to worry about having enough to make rent.


34 posted on 12/11/2015 1:09:39 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: vetvetdoug

That’s awful, it’s an abomination.

Every single one of my friend’s insurance rates are at least doubling in 2016, wi
th one friend’s insurance, for his wife, son and himself, is going from $780 a month to $1,500 a month, almost ruinous.

How come we aren’t screaming at the barricades, demanding this atrocity be overturned??

Is it only a few people being affected? How come we haven’t heard a general hue and cry about this??

Ed


35 posted on 12/11/2015 1:41:29 AM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: MtnClimber
ANYTHING OBAMA SAYS is worthless.
Watch what he does, and not what he says.
The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants ~ and is DIRECTING the policies that regulate ALL health care plans
in the United States ~ TO FAIL !
NEVER FORGET THAT !

Many of us have said for many years that Obama is doing this INTENTIONALLY.
He using the old Soviet Plan from 1934 or earlier.




Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
AND NOW, WE CAN ADD "Establishment Republicans" TO THAT LIST, ALSO!
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are "Collapsing the System".
And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE "SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM". They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!

Lets review:

Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

So Democrats,
Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ... It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...

36 posted on 12/11/2015 1:42:54 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: MtnClimber

“Probably designed to fail so the Dems can implement “single payer” government run so-called health care.”

No Probably about it - intentional from the start


37 posted on 12/11/2015 2:55:54 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: MtnClimber

Won’t pass, they were barely able to get Osamacare through a 60% rat Congress.


38 posted on 12/11/2015 3:49:13 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: MtnClimber
Too big to fail...


39 posted on 12/11/2015 3:52:57 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: MtnClimber

So long as there is a Dem or RINO in the White House, CJ Roberts on the bench and McConnell and Ryan running the show on the hill, Obamacare is fine and dandy.


40 posted on 12/11/2015 5:20:10 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Hillary - Ethically sleazy and politically stupid)
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