Posted on 01/12/2020 10:35:16 AM PST by John Semmens
Striving to burnish his image as the sole sane contender for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination, former Vice-President Joe Biden tried to explain his support of Obamacare to a questioner at a campaign stop in Iowa. The voter recounted Obama's promises prior to the health care law's passage that "you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan, your costs will go down. None of these promises were kept. Why should we keep Obamacare?"
Biden responded saying that "there's two ways people know when something is important. One is when it's so clear when it's passed, that everybody understands it. The other is when it is so complicated that no one understands it. Well, we passed the Affordable Care Act bill in order to find out what was in it. Now, here we are almost ten years later and still no one understands it. My question back to you is how can we repeal a law no one understands? I don't think we should risk losing the benefits just because we're ignorant of how the law is supposed to work."
Rival candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt) used Biden's remarks as a rationale for "why we need universal health care. The great flaw in Obamacare was the expectation that health consumers should choose their own insurance. Since by Joe's own admission, no one understands Obamacare, rational choice among plans is futile. Health is a collective benefit. Decisions on how much care each person should get need to be made by dispassionate government experts. Only socialized medicine can achieve this objective. People need to have faith that the government will do what's best for society even if that doesn't work out in their favor."
In related news, Biden also came out in favor of a total ban on plastic because "I don't understand that either. We all need to lead simpler lives. Humans have used reed baskets and clay pots for millennia. If these were good enough for our ancestors I don't see why they shouldn't be good enough for us."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=388320.0
It would be a bigger effing deal If it was repealed.
It's pretty mean-spirited to require Brainless Joe to understand much of anything. He has a lot of stuff he has to lie about, and he's failing miserably at that.
Remember when DEMOCRAT Nancy Pelosi said you had to pass the bill to find out what's in it???
His ONLY 2 remaining marbles are crashing into each other every time he moves his head.
That sound bite will be a TREASURE for Trump’s campaign ads.....
While we are on the topic of not understanding things....
How can Mike Flynn be sent to prison for lying about something that was not even a crime?
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