Posted on 11/02/2013 5:55:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
At the same time as dozens of Obamacare enrollees were being signed up, millions of other Americans were having their health insurance canceled — including so many pundits of left (Kirsten Powers), right (Michelle Malkin), and center (David Frum) that the Pulitzers should introduce a prize for Best Suddenly Uninsured Writing. Among their number was Matthew Fleischer, who wrote in the Los Angeles Times:
Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act.The reason he didn’t realize it is because the president lied to him, not just once in a casual aside, but on dozens of occasions, and very bluntly: “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan. Period.” But the entire premise of Obamacare was that, in order to cover (some of) the uninsured and (in many cases) uninsurable, other Americans were going to have to pay significantly more. Obamacare was always intended to be the Great Disruptor: Avik Roy reports that, by 2010, administration officials knew that 93 million Americans would lose their current plans under Obamacare. Small businesses are cutting back on full-time workers; medium businesses are dumping employees’ spouses and children from their plans; and the largest businesses are eating nine-figure bottom-line increases. Delta Airlines claims that it will spend an extra $100 million on health-care expenses next year: Even with cutbacks on complimentary mini-pretzels, a tenth of a billion is a big sum to recover. Meanwhile, the Obamacare plans won’t recognize your preferred doctor, and major hospitals won’t recognize the Obamacare plans.We just didn’t realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we’d be the ones paying for it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
He is either malevolent enough to be an AntiChrist or stupid and naive enough to be Chauncey Gardiner.
Lately, I am tending toward Chauncey...but then?
But it’s not Obama’s fault. It’s those greedy insurance companies, employers, etc. etc.
I’d be surprised if Obama knows anything about all the executive orders he’s signed.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” - Barack Obama Oct 30, 2008
Unfortunately the majority of voters believed the utopian vision that this would be a great improvement. The meaningless slogan Hope and Change was grasped as the mantra of wish fulfillment.
It’s all been by design, IMHO.
Yesterday a liberal told me that Obama was intelligent. I told him that I have never heard him say anything that resulted in my believing he was intelligent; what did he say that convinced YOU that he is intelligent?
"Well, he's smarter than Bush."
I HOPE someone can CHANGE it back.
He only LIED to our face for our own good, cause he we probably would not vote to enslave ourselves.
ACTION NOW........get a summary of the pro-policyholder Republican amendment, with a list of EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT who voted against protecting policyholders, and use it in upcoming elections....in letters to the editor, ads, fliers, bumper stickers, lawn signs, etc..........
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THEY CAN RUN--BUT THEY CANT HIDE
The O/Care debacle is looking more and more like the House check-kiting scandal years back. Dems--even in safe seats-- were tossed out by angry constituents (cackle).
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Democrats Scramble to Distance Themselves from Obamacare (RATS want a refund)
Breitbart | 10/30/13 | Wynton Hall / FR Posted November 01 by Libloather
**SNIP** Other Democrats now say they agree with Republicans that a delay of the individual mandate may be the only way to salvage the disaster and save face. "I think the administration is going to have to look at it [delay of the individual mandate]. and I'd encourage them to do so," said Rep. Gene Green (D-TX).
Five Democrats have now asked for the Obama Administration to seek a refund from the contractors responsible for the Obamacare website fiasco.
GUILTY CONSCIENCES FROM VOTING FOR O/CARE? Reps. Ron Barber (D-AZ), William Enyart (D-IL), Pete Gallego (D-TX), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Filemon Vela (D-TX) wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging the reimbursement effort.
That's exactly what they're betting. "They," including all the special-interest groups with waivers, all the Congresspersons and their staffs, and all the just plain rich people are also betting that they'll die before the system completely implodes.
Right now, the richest and most powerful can expect that they'll continue to get the best medical care for as long as it matters to them. However, at some point, everything is going to trend downhill. No matter how much money you have, you can't make someone invent a drug for what's going to ail you 50 years from now. You can't make someone invent the medical device that you're really going to want in 2035.
Innovation is going to grind to a halt, and when it does, maybe the Global Elite can try IV injections of money, because that's all they'll have.
-——including so many pundits———
What was brought to light is Kirsten doesn’t have an employer. She is free lance, independent contractor, not having a real job.
Despite the fact that he was suppose to be a reporter and people had been screaming at him what was going to happen he kept skipping along with his fingers in his ears singing, "lalalalalala I can't hear you."
No slack will be cut for this bunch.
They knew.
They chose not to report because they didn't think it would hit them.
They were the special people.
And as they were being offered the blindfold they kept telling people it would not happen.
I find it funny in a very grim sort of way.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the registration of all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to
develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
And you though you were protected by the Bill of Rights? Well, yes, if Congress ever chose to review and nullify any of these orders -but they don’t so they stand as the law of the land.
We have the ignorant, racist, anarchist, anti-government, KKK Tea Party astroturfers, who figured Obama out in 2008. They figured out that the porculus was a slush fund. They figured out that ObamaCare would totally disrupt the health insurance industry and access to healthcare. They knew this was going to be a man-made catastrophe (terrorism?).
Then we have every Democrat in the US Senate, millionaires, college grads all, who voted on the bill and couldn't figure it out. We have all these masterminds outside supporting the Democrats in the government, in the media, in the political power complex and in academia, who didn't figure it out until it hit their own mailbox.
Who are the ignorant rubes again?
I think Ted Cruz should file a bill to repeal ObamaCare in toto.
Steyn ping.
Mark Steyn ping.
Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.
Thanks for the ping Servant of the Cross.
Who received an MBA from Harvard without benefit of affirmative action.
There is, in fact, no evidence that Obama exceeded Bush in intelligence. Bush was, demonstrably, more articulate off-Teleprompter.
BTTT
Some people simply have mutton in their brain cavity and are absolutely enthralled by the nonsense their television tells them.
Yep, just like the $2.00 @ gallon gas. Once that barrier was broken and doomsday and chaos did not ensue, it was a pure sailing to $3.00 @ gallon & up...............
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