Posted on 12/20/2013 2:27:40 PM PST by Kaslin
Speaking from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House today, President Obama delivered some brief remarks at his final press conference of the year before departing for the Hawaiian Islands for a two week vacation. Given the sorry state of his signature domestic achievement, Guy wonders why the president is leaving at all considering millions of Americans are fretting about the status of their health insurance. Will they be covered after the New Year? Some, of course, will not be. And by the time he returns from the beaches of Hawaii, it will be too late to enroll them. Fleeing the capital now might be a decision he later comes to regret.
In any case, after his initial remarks discussing the economy and next year’s budget, the president spent his end-of-the-year presser mostly defending his signature health care law and the controversial NSA program, which he promises to evaluate more fully after the New Year.
“The healthcare website problems were a source of great frustration,” he conceded. “On the other hand, since that time I now have a couple million people who are going to have health care on January 1. And that is a big deal. That is why I ran for that office.”
The president did his best to defend the much-pilloried federal overhaul. However, he did not mention anything about the millions of Americans who’ve lost their health care plans -- or might lose their health care plans -- in the New Year. He did add, however, that more than one million citizens signed up for health insurance on the exchanges over the past three weeks.
Meanwhile, he also addressed the public’s growing concerns about the controversial NSA surveillance programs.
“As you know the independent panel came back with a series of recommendations,” he said. “What we’re doing now is evaluating all the recommendation that have been made. Over the next several weeks we’re going to assess…how we might apply and incorporate their recommendations. And I’m going to make a pretty definite statement about this in January.”
He said he did not think that the NSA was “snooping” on Americans, but conceded that he understands the public is concerned about the program, and that more transparency on behalf of the government is to be expected.
Most significantly, perhaps, the president emphasized time and again that the economy is the strongest it’s been since he took office -- deflecting criticism from the Affordable Care Act -- and dodged whether or not 2013 was the worst year of his presidency.
“A lot of our legislative initiatives in Congress had not moved forward as rapidly as I’d like, which means I’m going to keep at it,” he said.
We'll see how that goes in the New Year.
Only on paper.
Huge deductibles, lack of docs, and lack of docs who will accept Odumbocare is what they'll get.
Kind of like communism .... everything is free but there isn't anything.
“....since that time I have two million...”
What an arrogant, self-obsessed preener. It’s all about him, all the time.
anyone who missed his “ My Website” comment...wont notice....anything.
Obama is America’s first and HOPEFULLY Last iPres!
He is right but 100’s of millions won’t.
...just ANOTHER lie...
...and millions more would have, if it were not for ZeroCare.
Of course.
Thought about that when I read it.
He could have said, "... since that time WE have two million..."
Or he could have said, "...since that time there have been two million..."
But nope, the narcissistic POS has got to shower himself with false praise. IDIOT!
And how many are the young, healthy people who were supposed to pay for Obamacare?
I read today somewhere that early next year there will be more people without health insurance than there was before obammacare took effect. I believe it.
What good is having health insurance for them if they can’t find a doctor who will see them as so many doctors quit, or are going to quit?
I don’t doubt it either
Millions have lost their health insurance. But this is a president that feels he can tell a lie and his minions will say that he’s right using false statistics and convoluted arguments. All the while the press nod their heads and never raises a challenge to the false reasoning and the distortions. After all, it has worked in the past.
Valerie Jarrett is blowing so much smoke up his skirt he actually believes he’s doing great!
the new Scrapple Computer iHillary....
power it up at your own risk...
rumors abound that the stock ringtones have been hacked to include iHillarys infamous you Joo Bastard...comment
And there were millions in Ukraine who Stalin didn't starve. But you still have to ask the question by what right did Stalin decide who was allowed to have food or Obama to choose who is allowed to keep his insurance policy.
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