Posted on 10/28/2013 6:10:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats are trying nearly everything they can to stop the American public from completely bailing on Obamacare thanks to the massive train wreck of a roll out we've seen over the past month. Yesterday on ABC's This Week, former DNC Chairman and Democratic Presidential Candidate Howard Dean tried to argue that young people aren't needed for Obamacare to succeed, which is completely false. Dean also argued the roll out of the Obamacare website hasn't been chaos (the good parts are between minutes 1 and 8).
“It is not true that if young people don’t sign up that the program doesn’t work,” Dean said.
Despite Dean's fantasy of Obamacare working without a large number of healthy young people in the system to help pay for older sicker people, the fact is without this demographic, Obamacare collapses on itself. Even the White House has admitted this, hence the reason Health and Human Services Secretary has been targeting young people through ad campaigns, the NFL, "brosurance" and The Daily Show.
Before Obamacare became law, millenials weren't making heathcare insurance a priority in their budgets for two reasons: 1) They can't afford it 2) They don't need it. Now that Obamacare is law, millenials aren't rushing to sign up because 1) They still can't afford it, especially now that it's even more expensive than before 2) They still don't need it or see it as a priority and 3) As S.E. Cupp pointed out on This Week, they aren't going to sit on a website for hours or call a 1-800 number for coverage that is more expensive and difficult to sign up for.
“Obamacare relies on Millennials, these young invincibles, who have never bought health insurance in the past, to suddenly change their behavior and buy something they don’t think they need,” Cupp said. “But culturally, it reads as an inability to read their language…Millennials don’t meet in person with insurance brokers or travel agents, or anyone…They’re not going to be patient as the administration tweaks all of these glitches.”
“It isn’t a lie if you believe it.”
George Costanza
“I can’t say precisely how or when the transformation was complete. But it’s safe to say, it been happening for many decades and passed from American generation to generation.”
The transformation began in the late ‘60’s as the WWII generation of conservative teachers was replaced by the feel-good hippies’ from the ‘60’s cultural revolution. All the social programs still ran well even though the failed because we weren’t over spending to the extent of today. These hippies’ were taught by the JFK/LBJ accolades that a war on poverty could be won. (They just winked at the war on drugs and continue to do so.)
Black is white, white is black, up is down, down is up....UH HUH, YEAH SURE.
Is there even one Liberal Democrat out there who isn’t completely brain dead?
Are the young healthy people necessary for people to enroll in Medicaid?
This appears to be the single payer system the socialists desire.
They bring new meaning to the scripture of don’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.
they put him on when they need someone to tell the truth and lie about it in the same sentence. “we want socialism, but it’s their fault”..
Then why not allow “young people” to opt out of ObamaCare without the treat of a fine, penalty, fee or tax?
Unless your rich or a dem elite,your 75th birthday and your date of death will be the same!
Only Congress can change this by legislatioon and as long as we have a Republican House, that isn’t going to happen.LOL!
Communists live in alternative universe where everything is free and no one ever has to pay for it—except for one or two rich, white old men who didn’t deserve it anyway, because they are rich and old and white—and men. Or something.
Dean is wrong no matter how you slice it. Anyone who files an IRS form is in Obamacare, with by having insurance or paying a tax for not having insurance. Either way, they are in the system.
Not sure if anyone did, but he needs to GTH
“If you want to change a leftwinger’s mind, you have to manipulate how they feel.”
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I would like to make some of them feel as if they have just had their party symbol kicked with a steel toed boot.
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