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.
Darn straight Skippy. We agree on something.
Obama and I actually agree on something, though actually, I want his entire agenda to fail. I’ll choose individual freedom over government every time!
I am afraid that sounds about right
It’s a lot like rooting for the Jacksonville Jaguars to lose. It doesn’t really matter, the end result is known.
As Patriots we must end this destruction of America by any means possible. For me nothing is off the Table - remember 1776!
Was he bullied by kids in Kenya because he was a loser or because he was half white?
As they should be.
IT GETS BETTER---Silicon Valley techies say the botched healthcare.gov rollout was emblematic of what's called "state-of-the-art incompetence" .......the dated, old-school approach to the site's development, which relies on a management system known as the "waterfall model," and whose back-end database appears to run on Oracle software, had all but ensured it would run over-budget, late, and riddled with technical problems.
You could have taken any SV engineer and asked them, 'I have a friend — don't mention the government — who's thinking about a five-year, $100 million Oracle installation, and they've hired an outsourced contractor (crony-ridden CGI-Canada)to build it for them. It's going to be proprietary, hosted in their own data center, Oracle-based, with waterfall management."
" What are the odds that it's working on Day One of the rollout? "
And everyone in SV will tell you: zero percent.
There isn’t enough money to make it work.
At over $17 trillion in debt, we’re running out of countries/people to lend us money.
It’s going to come crashing down one way or another.
The partisan Affordable Care Act was passed by Democrats, some unwillingly, if not many. The complex, convoluted, unfair, and contradictory law was not read or digested by the legislative body, was blindly passed into law, and continues to be blindly supported by Democrats in spite of the overwhelming evidence that it is a disaster.
President Obama knows that the passage of the Affordable Care Act was contentious and characterized by coercion, bribes, threats, and promises to many Democrats. Few, if any, read or fully understood what was in the law. Now, as Pelosi, says it is opening like a flower so we can all see how hundreds of thousands of citizens are losing their health care while the economy and health industry are being destroyed.
President Obama himself has unilaterally delayed portions of the bill.
The Main Stream Media have their heads in the sand. Administration officials are tight lipped about its problems and damage to the economy. The administration has had three years to solve the start up problems.
The MSM has failed to tally the damage to jobs, citizens, and the economy produced by an unworkable, unfair, and ineffective law.
The hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on the failed start up could have been used to provide health insurance to many the uninsured.
Could be, but I just think there is not enough money to keep it going. He spent more money in his first four years than all the previous administrations, going back to Washington, Combined.
And on what? Buying voters?
We know it is unsustainable to have more takers than creators, and that’s where it is now, and growing rapidly.
He has to support 90 million people out of work.
Whether the media reports it or not, those people have to get paid.
This man operates on the assumption that it’s sensible to take three Air Force aircraft to transport a family of four. He earns about $420,000 as president and takes $5 million vacations every six months.
This is his economic sense.
He ‘doesn’t want to hear’ when his staff tells him the money is not printing fast enough.
And that he can’t just hide trillion dollar expenditures in a transparent budget.
With this type of thinking, he has created Obamacare, which he does not have to predict nor report the budget for, because he is allowed to be king, but one can assume it is at least the entire expenditure of his first four years, sped up to a yearly price.
He thinks his imperialism has taken hold already and that he can order workers and the wealthy to cooperate with giving hundreds of dollars every month, and increase the penalty in a few years if they refuse, while they are losing their jobs and private businesses are failing at a rapid rate.
He thinks that if we print money, other countries won’t notice and move in and, with the cooperation of the pork minded republicans, who are as deluded, move in Mexican workers to keep the businesses afloat, while we pay for everything.
This is his economic sense.
It is not logical, and the immature republicans just fork over to every whim, pretending the media is in charge.
But Obamacare is built on an insane notion and it will not sustain itself. The cost predictions are as off as Obama is in every one of his plans in office.
The money just is not there.
The GOP does not actively have to do a thing, as you say.
The question, then, is why are they scrambling to get amnesty in? Pulling Obama into the project.
Do they want Obamacare to succeed? It can’t succeed without workers?
Read, think, have faith.
Something's happening here.
You bet’cha, genius.
It’s up to 10,000 pages and the predictions of its cost are so high, just from a common sense view, that if we really knew... but we won’t, if Paul ryan, Issa and the GOPe, the greatest supporters of this thing, have their way and import enough workers to sustain it
He is always the victim
Le mot juste.
Well of course we are.
My sister works at a big name department store. She told me that people are devastated. They have watched hours get cut below 30. They now work two part time jobs, some cleaning toilets to make ends meet. This mandate to buy is freaking them out.
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