Posted on 01/06/2017 5:19:09 PM PST by mdittmar
President Barack Obama said on Friday that criticism from the left wing of his own Democratic Party helped feed into the unpopularity of Obamacare, his signature healthcare reform law.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Obama.....wut?
No President has ever acted so much like a drama queen in his final month in office.
Circular firing squad.
October 4, 2016
Bill Clinton has blasted President Obama’s signature piece of legislation — ObamaCare — as “the craziest thing in the world.”
“You’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden, 25 million more people have health care, and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half and it’s the craziest thing in the world,” the former president railed at a rally in Michigan on Monday.
Clinton also said the system is hurting moderately successful small businesses — ones that aren’t doing poorly enough to be subsidized and fall just above the line.
“On the other hand, the current system works fine if you’re eligible for Medicaid, if you’re a lower-income working person, if you’re already on Medicare or if you get enough subsidies on a modest income that you can afford your health care,” Clinton said.
“But the people getting killed in this deal are the small-business people and individuals who make just a little bit too much to get any of these subsidies,” he added. ...”
http://nypost.com/2016/10/04/bill-clinton-slams-obamacare-as-craziest-thing-in-the-world/
And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out.
A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan.
And that’s what I’d like to see.
But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.
Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”
Obama speaking to the Illinois AFL-CIO, June 30, 2003
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/barack_obama_on_sing.php
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How Obamacare Actually Paves the Way Toward Single Payer
By Noam Scheiber
January 5, 2014
https://newrepublic.com/article/116105/obamacare-will-lead-single-payer-michael-moore
(he died in 2015)
Dr. Quentin Young, Longtime Obama Confidante and Physician to MLK [Martin Luther King]--source: Democracy Now
FROM "THE OBAMA FILE"...
RE: QUENTIN YOUNG
The primary figure who delivered Obama to the single-payer camp was Quentin Young, an 86-year-old retired physician who was a longtime friend and neighbor of Obama in Chicago. Young joined the Young Communist League as a teenager in the late 1930s. From the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, he was closely associated with the Communist Party. In October 1968 he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was probing the extent of his knowledge about the riots that had erupted at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months earlier. The Committee accused Young of belonging to the Bethune Club, an organization for communist doctors; the group was named after Norman Bethune, a communist physician who devoted his services to the totalitarian regime of Mao Zedong
Dr. Young was active in the radical movements of the Sixties and Seventies and led a small delegation to Communist North Vietnam in 1972. In the late 1970s, Young became associated with a Marxist organization known as the New American Movement, which was initially convened by Michael Lerner, an America-hating radical who counseled young people to explore the use of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs as portals to a greater comprehension of socialist principles.
In 1980 Young founded the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a single-payer lobby group whose Board of Directors he chairs to this day. In 1982 Young helped establish the Democratic Socialists of America, which, as the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, asserts that "many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed." In 1987 Young co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a single-payer advocacy organization where he currently serves as national coordinator. In PNHP’s view, government-run healthcare "should be financed by truly progressive taxation."
In 1995 Young attended the now-famous meeting at the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, where Barack Obama was first introduced to influential locals as the hand-picked successor to Alice Palmer, a pro-Soviet radical who planned to vacate her Illinois State Senate seat in pursuit of a higher elected office. Young quickly became a friend and political ally of Obama, teaching the latter about the merits of single-payer healthcare.
In a 2009 interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Young reminisced about the germination of his ideological kinship with the young Obama:
"Barack Obama, in those early days [as a state senator] -- influenced, I hope, by me and others -- categorically said single payer was the best way, and he would inaugurate it if he could get the support, meaning [Democratic] majorities in both houses, which he’s got, and the presidency, which he’s got. And he said that on more than one occasion…."
Another noteworthy influence on Obama’s views vis à vis healthcare has been Dr. Peter Orris, who co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program with Quentin Young. The son of a Communist Party member, Orris in the 1960s was a leader of Harvard University’s campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the New Leftist organization that aspired to overthrow America’s democratic institutions and remake the nation’s government in a Marxist image. He later joined the Communist Party (CP) for more than two decades, before ultimately shifting his allegiance to the CP splinter group, Committees of Correspondence, where he remains a prominent figure to this day.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/QuentinYoung.htm
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: Quentin Young
An admirer of Fidel Castro, Young is proud that two of his children traveled to Cuba as members of the Venceremos Brigades to cut sugar cane and pick oranges. (The Venceremos Brigades were organized by Castro's Cuban intelligence agency, which trained "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives.)
*Longtime supporter of communist causes
* Was active in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s
* Helped establish the Democratic Socialists of America
* Co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, an advocacy organization that lobbies on behalf of a single-payer, government-run healthcare system
* Friend and supporter of Barack Obama
* Longtime friend of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
Lots more at the link:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2439
Just amazing. Every single damned thing in the universe that has ever gone wrong is somebody else’s fault! Everything! If 0bama ruled our every thought and action the universe would glow from its own inherent perfection.
“Every single damned thing in the universe that has ever gone wrong is somebody else’s fault!”........
Odumbo and Hitlary seem to have a lot in common. Blaming someone else is a demodummie “disease”
Jesus, is everyone in Chicago an anti American communist pos?.
It is fun to watch.
Under the surface you can see that Obama is thinking: “everything I did is falling apart before I even leave office and there’s no longer any way to hide it.”
He’s right. His presidency was a complete and utter failure.
it is undermined because it does NOT work
and its poorly designed
and its too damned expensive
and its compulsory (why?)
and
its unconstitutional (but we got an unconstitutional occupant in our White House foer 7.98 years and the Congress failed to do anything about it, so... our Fed govt is BROKEN, and Broke too for that matter....no more mandatory programs!)
Well, Bernie supporters are a bunch of jobless moochers so Zero may have a point- not enough people actually paying for the sh**y coverage
Drama Queen has always been Obama’s thing.
Barack O-blame-a
BarkyCare was a scam...a Ponzi scam...focused on the young people of America to make the RAT party rich...and the young people aren't a group of stupid people, they seen right through it and didn't take the bait...so now it's ‘Bernie's supporters’ that wrecked havoc with BarkyCare...oh my isn't that just a shame...
Barky is leaving just in time to have 8 years of everything he has ever done to be flushed down the toilet...along with him...
He thinks because he is a ‘great organizer’ he can cause hate and discontent for President Trump...doesn't think to clearly does he...We, the American People have President Trump's back and will while he is in office as President making America the Great Country she was before this POS was falsely ‘voter fraud ed’ into office for 8 years...
Burning all of his bridges on the way out
And meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi met with the sycophant presstitutes today, and chastised them for airing the Wikileaks Podesta emails.
It’s a beautiful thing, watching the heads of the Democrat party eating their own, and blaming the useful idiots for their own failures.
He’s quickly running out of people who haven’t let him down.
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