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Bill Clinton: 'President Should Honor the Commitment' and Let People Keep Their Insurance Plans
The Weekly Standard ^ | November12,2013 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 11/12/2013 7:28:00 AM PST by Hojczyk

Former President Bill Clinton said that President Obama should keep his pledge to allow people to keep their current health care plans, if they like them, under Obamacare:

"So I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got," said Clinton in a recent interview.

Clinton has, in general, been a strong supporter of Obamacare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9yVy-RXhxQ


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: billclinton; youcankeepit
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To: Hojczyk

Millions of cretinous and amoral Americans still admire Bill and Hillary Clinton, the two foulest amoral slimebags that have ever besmirched the White House. These two foulmouthed and lying psychopaths have been, and still are, blindly supported by masses of non-clinical morons, diehard Democrats, and whorish liberal journalists and their editors.

The Clintons’ habitual lies, gutter language, anti-Semitic outbursts, and anti-black slurs have been documented by reliable writers but have been — and still are — routinely suppressed by the so-called liberal media. This article serves to counter and expose that shameless misleading of the public about the true character of America’s two supreme actors and how they talk in private.

http://emptysuit.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-clintons-jews-and-niggers-warning-graphic-language/


21 posted on 11/12/2013 7:36:30 AM PST by PLD
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To: cotton1706

That is how I read it too.

Two campaign issues for Republicans:

“We have to pass this bill to find out what is in it.”

and you can keep your plan.

A good number of people are fed up with Obamacare.


22 posted on 11/12/2013 7:37:16 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Hojczyk
Hey Obama. How does it feel to be the one thrown under the Hillary 2016 bus. Huh?
23 posted on 11/12/2013 7:38:02 AM PST by McGruff (Obama lied. Period!)
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To: Hojczyk

Look for the knives to be more cutting and more often as 20016 comes closer.

Bubba still remembers South Carolina 2008.


24 posted on 11/12/2013 7:38:22 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Hojczyk

25 posted on 11/12/2013 7:39:32 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: tanknetter
What’s the Clintons’ end game on this? They’re not dumb people and would know that this will undermine the exchanges and solvency of the program further and faster. Maybe the “Its not working because we’re not the ones doing it” gambit in support of Hillary’s 2016 campaign?

I think it's a combination of distancing Hillary from Obama and setting up a "single payer" proposal from the Hillary 2016 machine. See, if we had single-payer, then all of this insurance mess - which we all know is the eeeeevil insurance companies' fault anyway - goes away, because insurance is superfluous when the nanny government already takes care of the bills.

26 posted on 11/12/2013 7:41:31 AM PST by kevkrom (It's not "immigration reform", it's an "amnesty bill". Take back the language!)
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To: All

And so it begins...

Dem. Rep.: ‘I Think the President Was Grossly Misleading to the American Public’

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dem-rep-i-think-president-was-grossly-misleading-american-public_766938.html


27 posted on 11/12/2013 7:42:08 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hojczyk


28 posted on 11/12/2013 7:44:51 AM PST by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment; Hojczyk; Liz
RE :”This is going to be interesting.”

More than interesting.... fun to watch.

The idea above undermines the success of Obamacare exchanges to work. In *theory* people would eventually go to the exchanges to get the subsities but in practice without a large risk pool from the start the exchange insurance companies must charge high rates keeping people away, whole thing blows up.

Of course if Obama caves on this then why shouldnt we be able to buy ANY policy we want? Not just existing ones?

Sounds like Dems have some headaches,

29 posted on 11/12/2013 7:45:37 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: Hojczyk

Last week it was Jimmah Carter jumping on The O.

Now, it is BJ.

Poor Bambam. He’s having a tough time. And his approval numbers are tanking.

If this continues, I may need a tissue.


30 posted on 11/12/2013 7:50:00 AM PST by TomGuy (.)
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To: Hojczyk

Slick likes to stir the pot.


31 posted on 11/12/2013 7:54:08 AM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Hojczyk
0bamacare is dying.
32 posted on 11/12/2013 7:58:45 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Hojczyk
So it begins


33 posted on 11/12/2013 7:59:08 AM PST by McGruff (Obama lied. Period!)
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To: Hojczyk

It’s the “settled law of the land.” How can he change it? Isn’t that what they’ve been saying?


34 posted on 11/12/2013 8:07:58 AM PST by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: PA-RIVER

So, what HAVE we heard from the insurance companies about Obamacare’s effects? What have any CEO’s said publicly?


35 posted on 11/12/2013 8:16:57 AM PST by polymuser
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To: Hojczyk

clunton talking about honor?


36 posted on 11/12/2013 8:17:05 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: sickoflibs
I think Clinton's statement is just an early indicator of the focus of the 2014 campaign.

Democrats, led by Bill and Hillary, are going to try to put themselves in the position of trying to save ObamaCare. As Jesse Jackson might say, they want to mend it, not end it.

So, all these Democrats who voted for the bill, (and didn't know what was in it, obviously) are going to run as reformers of a law they put in place. Ordinarily, you might think it's an uphill battle. But with a complaint media, and so many low information voters, it's a strategy that might work. Underestimating the Democrats is like underestimating the devil himself.

37 posted on 11/12/2013 8:28:10 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: Hojczyk

Nice to see a Dem stabbing another Dem in the back...


38 posted on 11/12/2013 8:31:17 AM PST by stboz
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
RE :”So, all these Democrats who voted for the bill, (and didn't know what was in it, obviously) are going to run as reformers of a law they put in place. Ordinarily, you might think it's an uphill battle. But with a complaint media, and so many low information voters, it's a strategy that might work. Underestimating the Democrats is like underestimating the devil himself. “

Obviously Dems are in a much worse position now then anyone imagined they would be, with the website and the cancellations going together with Obamas past promises.

The way I would phrase what you are getting at is that even though Dems own this mess they will try to go to voters and say :
At least we tried to fix things with this reform and get the uninsured the health care they need.. Yes we are very frustrated with the rollout but we are trying as hard as we can to fix the bugs in this so the bill helps you. We are the only adults in the room trying to make things better. On the other side the GOP is just rooting for failure and trying to break things to make our President look bad”

For the time being the GOP should avoid bringing too much attention to themselves. Keep the spotlight on Dems.

39 posted on 11/12/2013 8:52:22 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: sickoflibs
I guess that over the years, I have heard so many Democrat lies, and have been amazed how how easily they have been believed, that I'm not as gleeful as some are by this latest effort of the Clintons to distance themselves from problems they helped create. He's not called Slick Willie for nothing!

The best thing the GOP can do at this point is to concentrate on cutting spending and reducing the size of government. Restoring freedom to the citizens should be the underlying message of every issue.

40 posted on 11/12/2013 9:05:38 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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