Posted on 10/26/2013 7:32:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: GOP 'rooting' for ObamaCare failure By Elise Viebeck - 10/26/13 06:00 AM ET
President Obama blasted GOP opponents of his healthcare law as hypocrites after Republicans expressed concerns about the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov.
In his weekly address, Obama suggested that the GOP's focus on the issue was in bad faith because Republicans have pushed for years to repeal, defund or dismantle ObamaCare.
Republicans "spent the last few years so obsessed with denying … people access to health insurance that they just shut down the government and threatened default over it," Obama said.
"It's well past the time for folks to stop rooting for [the law's] failure."
Obama's comments come after a tough week for the administration. HealthCare.gov, the online enrollment portal for ObamaCare coverage, remained mired in problems in its fourth week.
The rollout has drawn fire from Republicans and Democrats alike, including former members of the administration.
This week, Obama announced several steps to improve the system's functionality, including appointing former White House budget director Jeff Zients as a chief "fixer" for the site.
Federal health officials are also benefiting from a "tech surge" involving experts brought in to triage the sign-up process.
Republicans argue that the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov indicates that ObamaCare is unworkable and have promised tough oversight on the implementation stumbles.
Obama pushed back on Saturday, citing the law's more popular provisions and explaining the logic behind the insurance marketplaces.
The website "gathers insurers under one system to compete for your business," Obama said. "And that choice and competition have actually helped bring prices down."
Obama also described efforts to repair the enrollment process, urged frustrated users to try enrolling by telephone and vowed not to give up until the process is smooth.
"We're only a few weeks into a six-month open enrollment period, and everyone who wants insurance through the marketplace will get it," Obama said.
Rooting? How about “accurately predicting”?
"Accurately observing" is not synonymous with "rooting".
The GOP does not have to do a thing for Obamacare to be a failure. It was designed to fail and bring in single payer. The GOP just has to point that out.
PS Au contraire.
Well duh!
Well duh!
Damn right we are. Kill It With Fire!
Perception counts for more than reality when dealing in the political realm. Obama has been an abject failure as President, but he was still reelected by five million votes.
It was designed to fail and bring in single payer. The GOP just has to point that out.
That is doing something and that is my point. We can' t allow the MSM and the Dems to define success and failure. My concern is that we are being suckered into the number signing up on the website as the metric for success rather than more substantive measures like premium costs, deductibles, co-pays, reduced payments to hospitals and doctors, job losses and the conversion to part-time work etc.
The website will be fixed and the number of enrollees will climb as more and more employers and insurance companies drop existing coverage and force people into the exchanges by tens of millions. It is inevitable.
Yes, single payer is the objective. Obamacare is the final piece joining the other single payer medical coverages, i.e., Medicare (47 million enrolled) and Medicaid (70 million enrolled counting the CHIPs program). Obamacare will add at least another 18 million to Medicaid and Medicare will continue to increase as 10,000 people retire a day and will continue to do so every day for the next 20 years.
And for those predicting the demise of private insurance, I would remind them that 9 out of 10 Medicare recipients have supplemental insurance. It is why AARP supports Obamacare.
The Reps must be proactive and not sit by and think that the failure of Obamacare will be self-evident. The Goebbels-like propaganda machine aided by the MSM will blame the GOP for the failure, particularly if the Dems are prevented from making various fixes to make the system more palatable.
That's what companies want.....They shouldn't be in the business of managing their employees' healthcare. They only did it, as a workaround for wartime wage controls. It's one reason companies offshore, they don't have to worry about providing insurance for Sanjay in Mumbai, who works for some Indian company they contracted with.
Yeah, sure, just like Cassandra was “rooting for” the destruction of Troy.
Yeah, like the Jews in 1936 Berlin rooting for Hitler’s defeat.
Of course if they did, they were never heard from again. If only Obama had gotten funding for those Boxcars and Camps.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Medicare will consume the entire federal budget if it is not reformed.
Just going through the same narrative that those who oppose this law want to stop people from having health insurance, all the while people are getting notices in the millions their insurance is being cancelled due to this law.
The level of dishonesty continues to be extraordinary.
“The level of dishonesty continues to be extraordinary.”
Obama and his handlers think we are too stupid to recognize their dishonesty. Obama thinks he is being sneaky and clever. He is way more transparent than he planned to be.
No...Obama blame others???? , You know I read this here before:
By attempting to prevent its adoption by enough states and by blitzing with negative ads designed to scare citizens.
Again, I am not against these tactics because it is probably for the best, but to deny that one side is trying to derail it is akin to pretending to be blind.
Obama is trying to make a certain point - which for some idiotic reason you feel the need to try and agree with.
I am full well aware of what is going on, but fully aware of what Obama is trying to say to his lo fo voters, and the twain shall never meet.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.