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Pro-Obamacare Technocrats Present Worst Argument Ever: You Don’t Know What’s Good for You
Mediaite ^ | 12:17 pm, October 29th, 2013 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 10/30/2013 1:27:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai

As the ACA rolled out, it became clear that millions of policy holders on the individual market would be losing their plans. On Monday night, NBC News revealed that the White House knew this would be the case all along. They revealed that a promise President Barack Obama had made to the public multiple times across two election cycles—that those who like their health care plans could keep them—was an outright, premeditated lie.

Enter the modern technocrats. …

“One of the key reasons that America needed health care reform is that a lot of existing health plans were bad,” (Business Insider’s Josh) Barro explained. “There are a lot of health plans that Americans shouldn’t be able to keep. … America doesn’t have a free-market health care system and hasn’t for decades,” he adds. “With taxpayer subsidies so embedded in everybody’s plan purchasing decisions, taxpayers have a legitimate interest in ensuring that health plans serve the public interest, not just private interests.”

In fact, Barro deploys this form of logic to support the insistence that the health insurance market is a “government benefit” which should be subject to massive top-down regulation. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; obamacare; technocrats; zerocare

1 posted on 10/30/2013 1:27:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

thought that was the motto of the Democratic party??


2 posted on 10/30/2013 1:28:28 PM PDT by Farnsworth (One Big Assed Mistake America)
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To: Olog-hai

The Anti-Choice Party.


3 posted on 10/30/2013 1:29:32 PM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Olog-hai

FUBO FUBO FUBO FUBO and once more, FUBO.


4 posted on 10/30/2013 1:32:30 PM PDT by hdbc (FUBO)
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To: jimfree

LIBs/DIMs hate your Freedom. They will do anything to stifle it: Lie, Cheat, Obfuscate, Steal and Murder. Anything.


5 posted on 10/30/2013 1:33:09 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai; Revolting cat!
Hanoi Jane said that Americans would LOVE Communism and want to live under it if they only understood what it "really is".


6 posted on 10/30/2013 2:05:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Olog-hai
“With taxpayer subsidies so embedded in everybody’s plan purchasing decisions, taxpayers have a legitimate interest in ensuring that health plans serve the public interest, not just private interests.”

WTH is this idiot talking about?

7 posted on 10/30/2013 2:08:34 PM PDT by MortMan (We've gone from ‘failure is not an option’ to ‘failure is not an obstacle’.)
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To: a fool in paradise
this just in

Hanoi Jane Named Head Cheerleader..for the Newly Rebranded Washington Putzes!!

develop-ping




8 posted on 10/30/2013 2:10:01 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/)
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To: Olog-hai
Stock Marxist vanguardism. You really don't, you see.
9 posted on 10/30/2013 4:13:34 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: MortMan
WTH is this idiot talking about?

Maybe once he removes his mouth from ObeyMe's.... body.... we might be able to understand him.

10 posted on 10/30/2013 4:15:43 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: hdbc

And everyone who voted and/or kowtows to him.
**spit**


11 posted on 10/30/2013 4:16:47 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: MortMan
WTH is this idiot talking about?

What he means is that once the government gets involved the customer only gets to choose what the government wants on the menu. But he can choose "freely".

Irony abounds.

12 posted on 10/30/2013 4:18:39 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Olog-hai
When you're fired or laid off from your job, you're not really losing paid employment, you're simply being helped to transition to your next job.

It's all in the messaging.

13 posted on 10/30/2013 4:44:14 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Olog-hai

Now these insurance plans that people can sign up for through the healthcare exchange, are these plans offered through private companies? Or are these government run programs? And if these plans are through private companies, are these the lousy companies that no one in a free market wants to buy insurance from? And how are their earnings now? And who are their investors? And if they are government run programs, how in the world will this ever be afforded? It won’t. I’m suspect that in MA at some point in the future, probably when Duval Patrick is out of office, the RomneyCare miracle will turn out to be like the Dukakis-Miracle that wasn’t.


14 posted on 10/30/2013 5:08:55 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: Olog-hai

It is a feature of leftist hubris that they always know what’s good for people better than people know for themselves.

We’ve seen it for decades in the abortion industry, where accurate information about abortion is withheld from prospective clients because it might influence them to make the wrong decision.

Why should we expect any different when it comes to leftist control of health care?


15 posted on 10/31/2013 4:08:25 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Olog-hai

Nothing new here. It’s the same old argument that has been used by Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Khrushchev, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, etc.


16 posted on 10/31/2013 4:11:46 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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