Posted on 07/28/2013 2:30:05 PM PDT by jazusamo
Even President Obama has now given up on trying to make Americans like his health care policy. In an interview with The New York Times, President Obama said that he can’t turn around public opinion on Obamacare through a PR push, but instead people will begin to appreciate the law once it goes into affect.
Even though polls show that the majority of people do not like the Obamacare law, the president still seems to believe that once they are forced to purchase health insurance, or pay a penalty, everyone will start to love it. But it seems like that is not really going to be the case.
Once again, the President likes to blame everyone else for the lack of success he has seen when it comes to Obamacare.
"But until then, when we’re getting outspent four to one and people are just uncertain about what all this means for them, we’re going to continue to have some polls like that," Obama said. "And me just making more speeches explaining it in and of itself won’t do it. The test of this is going to be is it working. And if it works, it will be pretty darn popular.”
Even with a new PR blitz, the President can’t win over the public opinion:
"Over the course of six months to a year, as people sign up, and it works, and lo and behold, the people who already have health insurance are not being impacted at all other than the fact that their insurance is more secure and they are getting free preventive care, and all the nightmare scenarios and the train wrecks and the 'sky is falling' predictions that come from the other side do not happen, then health care will become more popular," Obama said.
It’s funny how the President seems to think that Americans are not aware of what Obamacare really has in store for us. But we are quite aware! The penalty will not be worth it Mr. President!
> English translation from neo-marxist double-speak:
” Accept Statist Totalitarian marxism. Resistance is futile. You are merely stupid sheep who will eventually obey.”
Accept the mark of the Beast or you don’t get your pudding
What is missing in these discussions is what has already happened to the doctors and nurses in this mess. Regulations already in place are sucking the life out of medical care - practioners of medicine are being forced into tight, regulated practice rules about eligibility and documentation and “quality measures”. While the national discussion is about insurance and payments and such, the soul of medical care is being ravaged.
Maybe that was the plan all along.
Out of curiousity, would it be more expensive to have Universal Health CARE like Canada or the UK, as it would be to have Universal Health INSURANCE a/k/a 0bamacare? Consider including the cost of 16,000 or so new IRS enforcement officers. This should also include consideration for all the warts of Universal Health Care in practice, even if these abuses are of a different level from what we can expect from 0bamacare.
National defense is fast becoming weaker and weaker.
Obama can only pray you’re right. He’s been desperate to get riots going since he was elected. It’s a seminal part of the Alinsky/Marxist playbook. He seized on Trayvon in hopes of igniting a race war. Embarrassingly, w all the astroturfing he only managed to get “hundreds” at the protests.
That only leaves, as you pointed out, the Greek option. You can be sure the Community Organizer is working overtime to figure out how to maximally agitate the takers against the producers. It is his last, best hope. We’ll see how it plays out.
Ask any health insurance company what their 'bottom line' would look like if they brought in millions of healthy young people and got them buy health insurance.
Obama and dems will treat this slush fund the same way they treat the Social Security 'trust' fund. Money will come in and they'll grab it out the second it hits the box and spend it on other things.
In a few years democrats will be talking about health care being an 'entitlement' - and young people who paid in all these years will be told it's going to be 'means tested' meaning they'll have to buy private insurance but the people in Detroit will be insured for free forever.
When Obamacare is implemented, it might be the last straw to further destroy the economy - then he’ll get what he wants. A reason to impose martial law - and suspend elections indefinetly.
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