Posted on 12/01/2013 3:39:31 PM PST by Libloather
President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law will “work really well” by 2017, former White House senior advisor David Plouffe said Sunday.
“This program was designed to be implemented by the states, and in most of the states that are running their exchanges, it’s going quite well,” Plouffe told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
“You talked about Medicaid expansion,” Plouffe continued. “I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid. And I think it’ll work really well then.”
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Any screaming should be saved up for election day.
“Working really well” = stealing another $1 Trillion annually from the producers to give to the leeches and other parasites without raising taxes a thin dime.
By 2017, 49% of the country will be on Medicaid, 20% on Medicare and the balance paying for the latter.
It’s going to be “very, very popular” too, right Davy boy? LOL! You idiot. Who is going to pay the medical bills for the 30 to 50 million amnestistas on the Freeway to the Big Pinata? Where’s that money going to come from?
Comrades! At the end of our current 5 year plan a socialist nirvana will have been reached.
All hail the revolution!
And this expansion of Medicaid (the probable direction of the course of events), this will be accomplished - how?
The individual states would have to extract the necessary funds from their own residents, as whatever “subsidies” that would be offered by the Federal government will be entirely inadequate and swiftly eaten up by the exponential growth in the number of enrollees. Fine, so maybe fifty cents on the dollar, or maybe ten cents on the dollar, or even less, will actually get distributed, because the Federal government is having a huge crisis of its own.
The “death panels” will be operating at full speed and with ruthless efficiency within days of this collapse. Almost ALL care will be denied, with a political triage going on, is this person worth saving to preserve our position or power, or not? If not, cutoff is immediate.
If any Democrats ARE elected to office after this travesty, then election nullification is fully justified.
It’s always going to work really, really well after an election....yeah, right.
If Obamacare hasn't been repealed by then, that is, repealed...come what may...this nation is done...done.
Plouffe has been smoking that wacky tabacky again!
I tend to agree with you. At the rate we are going, by 2017 there will not be an economy left for this country to do a damn thing.
In 2017 the fine is 2.5% of your income
Isn’t this the same “advisor” who told the Kenyan to lie and say anything the fainting buffoons wanted to hear in order to get himself elected? Sorry Davy. ZERO credibility.
There’s the story about the nail factory in the old Soviet Union. The manager was given a yearly production quota in tons of nails to make. As the end of the year came, he realized that he wasn’t going to make his required quota. So, he made one ten ton nail. That’s how Obamacare is going to work. Success won’t be measured by improved healthcare, it will be measured by how many people sign up. It’s like asking how many refrigerators a refrigerator plant produced and then the manager says, “Well, we had a hundred thousand orders!” It’s smoke and mirrors.
We cannot wait until 2017. By then we will be I water way over our heads, drowning with no hope of Rescue.
Obamacare must be dumped before the 80- million Corporate insured lose their insurance. If we wait until after that we will have 80 million people being robbed by the insurance companies.
robbed by the insurance companies?
You realize the money they are overcharging is to be used to subsidized the “poor”
Obama has turned health into a welfare program
They always promise things will be fine after the next election. The idiots actually believe them. Now they are promising after the next two elections. LOL.
Tufta, it’s how you pad the quota.
He’s a liar. Oregon has ZERO enrollments. 60% of NY doctors passed on the exchange. Vermont has only one provider. And on and on.
This thing is a POS.
Unicorns, Rainblows and Skittles...
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
- Margaret Thatcher
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