Posted on 11/03/2013 1:13:38 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
In its Sunday paper, The New York Times editorial board defended President Barack Obama from criticisms that he had intentionally misled the public when he had claimed if an individual likes their health insurance plan, they could keep their health insurance plan.
The paper’s board also attacked congressional Republicans for stoking fear and confusion, writing that Obama “clearly misspoke” when he repeatedly claimed Americans could keep their health insurance plans as he fought to pass the law and defend it during the 2012 election.
“Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that,” the editorial read. “By law, insurers cannot continue to sell policies that don’t provide the minimum benefits and consumer protections required as of next year. So they’ve sent cancellation notices to hundreds of thousands of people who hold these substandard policies. (At issue here are not the 149 million people covered by employer plans, but the 10 million to 12 million people who buy policies directly on the individual market.)”
Later in the editorial, the Times described Obama’s contradicted claims as an overblown controversy.
“This overblown controversy has also obscured the crux of what health care reform is trying to do, which is to guarantee that everyone can buy insurance without being turned away or charged exorbitant rates for pre-existing conditions and that everyone can receive benefits that really protect them against financial or medical disaster, not illusory benefits that prove inadequate when a crisis strikes,” the editorial said.
Misspoke? When is someone, ANYONE in the enemedia going to grow a big enough pair and tell it like it is; 0bama effing LIED! When he said “you can keep your current plan, blah blah blah..., he did not “misspeak” he knew damn well he was full of Shiite. Surely, lying by omission constitutes bearing false witness. Oh, that’s right he’s a muzzie at heart, so that taquiia thing takes precedence over the Ten Commandments. my bad.
Not picking a non-fight with you FRiend, just pointing out what The WORD says. YMMV
He “misspoke” for 110 days in a row on the campaign trail.
The King James version has “with her.” The Septuagint has the Greek words that mean “with her.”
I would expect nothing else from the NYT, or any others in the media for that matter.
read the link, it was a phrase added on in translation.
In other words, Obama didn’t lie; he’s just an idiot.
I’m supposed to think it’s okay, then? The guy in charge of a 3 trillion dollar government and enough nukes to set the world on fire is a babbling moron and that’s okay?
He’s a bald faced GOD D*** LIAR.
Maybe so, I've never read it. But I was referring to the old Soviet era. The MSM organs today with their faithfulness to the ruling regime resemble that "Pravda."
Oh, Indeed. And the irony is that “PRAVDA” means “TRUTH”. eek.
WELCOME TO OBAMA’S ANIMAL FARM
“Comrades!” [Squealer the pig] cried. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a privilege of selfishness and privilege. Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole managment and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we failed in our duty? Jones would come back! “ George Orwell Animal Farm
THE most dangerous gov’t is the one that forces laws on the basis of compassion and goodness. This is from Ludwig von Mises Institute:
“The happy voter is the one who refuses to grasp the obvious point that government serves as a vehicle for the worst in society to play out their violent fantasies. As Hayek put it, “the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful” in operating the machinery of total intimidation. It is always from the throne of authority that the worst deeds are accomplished. This includes mass aggression against property as well as the truth. The productive capacity of society is decimated enough by government’s necessarily parasitical operation; the public’s concept of verity is challenged by the various ministries of agitprop that disguise their actions as beneficial rather than schemes of plunder.”
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan… If you like your insurance plan, keep that… If you like what you’re getting keep it, If you like your doctor, you keep it, no one’s forcing you to shift… period! Barack Hussein Obama
Fact: The White House knew in 2010 that up to 93 million workers would lose their company health plans under Obamacare.
Fact “40 to 67 percent of customers will not be able to keep their policy.”
The Democrats new solution – force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicare (socialized medicine Cuban style)
(snark:)
“Obama mis-spoke when he said you could keep your guns...”
Word games don’t have much impact until certain words are substituted. Then suddenly it’s all very clear.
The socialists have effectively confiscated the disposable income of millions of Americans via a stroke of a pen
The backlash against these red sons of bitches is going to be unprecedented
They done effed up real bad
http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/3
“You can keep your own insurance”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/18/yes-you-can-keep-your-health-plan
“Yes, You Can Keep Your Health Plan
The bottom line is that the Act allows people to keep the insurance they have, while also providing more and better options for all.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/proposal/titlei
“For Americans with insurance coverage who like what they have, they can keep it. Nothing in this act or anywhere in the bill forces anyone to change the insurance they have, period.”
I pay $500 a month and my employer pays $1000
Just got word that in patient hospitalization has gone from 100% covered to $6000 coinsurance
The take away is that millions of Americans who get insurance through their employers are going to avoid going to the hospital, people will start giving birth at home again
Thanks you demented communist scumbags, you have created a national crisis for no good reason, and all manner of hell is coming your way
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