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Why Obama lied about Obamacare
Chicago Tribune ^ | November 1, 2013 | By Eric Zorn

Posted on 10/31/2013 9:38:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

"We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." — President Barack Obama, touting the Affordable Care Act in a June 15, 2009, speech.

This was not true, period.

I call that a lie.

And look. I admire the president. I support the Affordable Care Act insofar as it was clearly the most ambitious expansion of coverage that could possibly have eked through Congress.

And it's tempting for me to spin Obama's lies as omissions, oversimplifications or plain old political salesmanship and rhetorical inflation. Means that justified the ends.

The result is a greater threat to the future of heath care reform than a glitchy website or balky millennials ignoring the insurance mandate — a loss of trust. Period.

(Excerpt) Read more at my.chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; obamacare; rinocare; socialism
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1 posted on 10/31/2013 9:38:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can’t read the article but I get the gist of it. Eric, you might want to put come ice on that...


2 posted on 10/31/2013 9:40:04 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The link goes to other articles. Not your fault.


3 posted on 10/31/2013 9:42:50 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: bigbob

couldn’t read the article either.. requires sign up.


4 posted on 10/31/2013 9:42:56 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t it the case that the original law did grandfather in most plans but 2010 regulations mandated the additional coverages, so it would have been true at the time...?


5 posted on 10/31/2013 9:43:14 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

So the author admires a liar???

Okayyyyeeee...


6 posted on 10/31/2013 9:44:44 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fascism is what fascism is, Eric.


7 posted on 10/31/2013 9:45:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why Obama lied about Obamacare

Cause his mouth was open?

8 posted on 10/31/2013 9:48:39 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It would never have passed otherwise.


9 posted on 10/31/2013 9:50:35 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As soon as the treasonous bass turds on Capitol Hill pass “immigration reform”, the commie ‘RATS will have 50 million Mexican Nationals to indulge in the “shopping experience” at the BIG Gubmit Marketplace.


10 posted on 10/31/2013 9:51:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Have you had your ObamaCare Marketplace shopping experience today?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Try this link:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-oped-1101-zorn-20131101,0,186221.column


11 posted on 10/31/2013 9:56:31 PM PDT by upchuck (I've got maternity care via Obamacare! Now, if I could just figure out how a male gets pregnant...)
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To: bigbob

“Eric, you might want to put come ice on that...”
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So, poor little Eric thinks it is good because it came from his messiah.
Never underestimate the stupidity that now prevails in the new USSA.


12 posted on 10/31/2013 9:57:50 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obamacare is just part of the plan to "fundamentally transform" us all into nice little marxists:

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we are going to have to change our traditions, our history.

We're going to have to move into a different place as a nation to provide the kind of future we all want desperately for our children."

Michelle Obama
May 14, 2008
Speech in San Juan Puerto Rico

A different place?

13 posted on 10/31/2013 9:58:40 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama lied, people are going to die.


14 posted on 10/31/2013 10:04:26 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t care why a liar lies.


15 posted on 10/31/2013 10:04:42 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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Objectives:
(1) Raise more tax revenue; call it healthcare but cutting costs, denying benefits, and using death panels on senior citizens will allow the system to be more profitable
(2) Create national citizen registry conisting of personal and financial inormationl
(3)!used as pretext to install implants into citizens for myriad of reasons inluding tracking, automated access to itizen information, and control / compliance measures as needed
(4) implement on worldwide level to assist implementation of New World Order With Zunited Znations acting as central governing authority.


16 posted on 10/31/2013 10:06:00 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: KittenClaws

Socialists would never win without lying

and when they finally can win without lying, we get mass murder


17 posted on 10/31/2013 10:08:17 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Objectives:
(1) Raise more tax revenue; call it healthcare but cutting costs, denying benefits, and using death panels on senior citizens will allow the system to be more profitable
(2) Create national citizen registry conisting of personal and financial inormationl
(3)!used as pretext to install implants into citizens for myriad of reasons inluding tracking, automated access to itizen information, and control / compliance measures as needed
(4) implement on worldwide level to assist implementation of New World Order With Zunited Znations acting as central governing authority.


18 posted on 10/31/2013 10:08:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Objectives:
(1) Raise more tax revenue; call it healthcare but cutting costs, denying benefits, and using death panels on senior citizens will allow the system to be more profitable
(2) Create national citizen registry conisting of personal and financial information
(3) used as pretext to install implants into citizens for myriad of reasons inluding tracking, automated access to citizen information, and control / compliance measures as needed
(4) implement on worldwide level to assist implementation of New World Order With United Nations acting as central governing authority.


19 posted on 10/31/2013 10:12:43 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: erlayman

Did you sign up here right after the 2008 election to be able to make excuses for Obama to conservatives?


20 posted on 10/31/2013 10:13:25 PM PDT by Defiant (GOPe Strategy: We have to fund Obamacare in order to see how bad it is. Good idea, guys!)
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