Posted on 02/11/2014 6:43:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ron Fournier, one of Obamacare's staunchest defenders, wants us to know he is "getting sick" of defending the law, writing that it was "getting difficult and slinking toward impossible" to advocate for it.
For the second time in a year, certain businesses were given more time before being forced to offer health insurance to most of their full-time workers. Employers with 50 to 99 workers were given until 2016 to comply, two years longer than required by law. During a yearlong grace period, larger companies will be required to insure fewer employees than spelled out in the law.
Not coincidentally, the delays punt implementation beyond congressional elections in November, which raises the first problem with defending Obamacare: The White House has politicized its signature policy.
The win-at-all-cost mentality helped create a culture in which a partisan-line vote was deemed sufficient for passing transcendent legislation. It spurred advisers to develop a dishonest talking point-"If you like your health plan, you'll be able to keep your health plan." And political expediency led Obama to repeat the line, over and over and over again, when he knew, or should have known, it was false.
Defending the ACA became painfully harder when online insurance markets were launched from a multibillion-dollar website that didn't work, when autopsies on the administration's actions revealed an epidemic of incompetence that began in the Oval Office and ended with no accountability.
Then officials started fudging numbers and massaging facts to promote implementation, nothing illegal or even extraordinary for this era of spin. But they did more damage to the credibility of ACA advocates.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ronny, my girl, you own it.
Employer Mandate Delay VOID If You Fire Workers/Cut Hours
Ain't tyranny grand, Ron? And just think -- you voted for it all.
Evidently, Mr. Ron Fournier has yet to figure out that no matter how hard one tries, one cannot defend the indefensible. It must really suck to be him.
Sick of ObamaCare? Is that covered?
“Liberal columnist ‘getting sick’ of defending Obamacare”
Liberal communist ‘getting sick’ of defending Obamacare...
there... fixed it.
Honestly... where DID “O” supporters THINK this would all end?
You back a lame horse and spend the rest of your natural life making excuses for why he can’t win!?
Really!
Settling for mediocrity will invariably DO this to you! There’s a lot to be said for picking the best man for the job, expecting excellence and VETTING candidates!!!
GET IT?
Don't tell me your eyes are suddenly open to the tyranny of Obama, Holder, and Jarret. Funny how when the alligator starts nipping at your feet you start to whistle a different tune.
What did you write when Obama and Democrats rammed this law down our throats with NO Republican support and used all types of illegal political payoffs to get Obamacare passed? Why didn't you and your Journ-O-Lists howl then. You know if Bush and the Republicans had done something similar you and your buddies would have screamed bloody murder.
Ron Fournier, Obamacare was wholly enabled by YOU and your corrupt media brethren.
Voted for it? He PROMOTED it! Lots of people are going to lose everything they own either because they have no coverage (because the policies they could afford were cancelled) or because they have no jobs and this guy is one of the people who are at fault.
Sleep while you can Ron, someday you will be afraid to close your eyes.
Indeed.
The MSM go first.
This fournier creep needs to crawl across the US covered in ashes and dressed in sackcloth (and beg for forgiveness) before he is even slightly forgiven for promoting nobamacare.
before 0bamacare: $110/mon + $500 deductible
with 0bamacare: $600/mon + $13,000 deductible
thanks 0bama!
Poor Ronnie is just job-locked, and he doesn't realize it yet.
Ronnie, you don't have to keep defending the indefensible law, just quit. You feel trapped in your job; free yourself from those shackles, and stop writing for a living. Stop with the endless need to come up with excuses. You don't need to work for healthcare benefits, that's what Obamacare will get you.
Ronnie, you’re like the Sisyphus of intellectual defense.
GETTING sick?
Is that like being a little bit pregnant?
What's it gonna take for you to be TOTALLY sick, TOTALLY fed up?
You're a weasely little journalista toadie....we're not deceived.....we know very well that your pathetic musings about your emperor are written more in sorrow than in anger.
Heal thyself.
Leni
“Slink” is the operative word for anything this JournOlist piece of filth does.
Hey Mr. Ron Fournier - even the A-listers don't like it. It's so bad even the toadies are catching on...
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