defiance of Pres. Reagan's policy objectives in Latin America.
ESAD, commie scum!
Posted on 12/03/2014 1:30:15 PM PST by tobyhill
Chuck Schumer isn’t the only Democrat suffering from buyer’s remorse from March 2010. Outgoing progressive Senator Tom Harkin, whose seat will be filled by conservative Joni Ernst in large part because of voter unhappiness with ObamaCare, told The Hill that the Affordable Care Act was a huge mistake — but not quite for the same reasons Schumer believes. While Schumer belatedly lamented the lost opportunity to boost the middle class rather than climb on the Democratic hobby horse of health-insurance overhauls, Harkin regrets not doing more to demolish the health-insurance industry:
He wonders in hindsight whether the law was made overly complicated to satisfy the political concerns of a few Democratic centrists who have since left Congress.
“We had the power to do it in a way that would have simplified healthcare, made it more efficient and made it less costly and we didn’t do it,” Harkin told The Hill. “So I look back and say we should have either done it the correct way or not done anything at all.
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These people are becoming more disgusting, more obnoxious and just plain more stupid every day.
IMHO
If he really means that, he's dumber than I thought.
The health-insurance industry loves ObamaCare because they can charge schlubs like me for crap we will never use, like "free" mammograms, substance abuse treatment and other crap for his favored constituents.
What's not (for the insurance industry) to love about jacking up my premiums, leaving me with little recourse and saying that I have to pay for those benefits which I will never, ever use because they are mandated?
Sorry guy - WE TOLD YOU how awful this thing was and you lied to us and called us names.
Eat it.
buyer’s remorse is very tasty isn’t it Harkin? Hope you have someone to perform the Heimlich for you.
So Harkin is throwing his hat in the 2016 presidential ring. Not a single democrat regrets Obamacare. They are positioning themselves to say they are the moderate democrat that will fix Obamacare and bring us in to the glorious revolution of single payer.
Let the dems all take a large bite out of that Sh@t sandwich, voting public included.
Well, Tom, you had to pass it to see what was in it, no?
Embrace the suck, Tommy!
Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes, too.
GET GOVERNMENT OUT of healthcare!
Same as when you eat a lot of kernel corn for dinner.
Here is the dirty little secret nobody wants to talk about. Access to health care is NOT a right!
If your slothfulness and lack of discipline means you find yourself without health insurance, it’s not my problem. If you later find out that your inattention to your health has resulted in your getting a bad disease, like cancer, that is ALSO not my problem.
Stay healthy. It’s not such a hard concept. And if you think you need health insurance, then, damn it, get a JOB and PAY for it, or get it as part of your compensation.
But don’t make me pay if you refuse to take care of yourself, refuse to work and then find out the hard way that those things have consequences. I do nor make the rules. The wages of sin is death. That’s literally true.
ESAD, commie scum!
They’re never going to be repealed.
The GOP doesn’t want to be seen as adverse to seniors and it doesn’t want to be accused of lacking empathy for the poor.
Medicare and Medicaid can be reformed but doing away with them is courting political suicide.
For the GOP, its important to show its not the party of Big Business and Wall Street - that it responds to the concerns and needs of Main Street America.
He claimed once that he had flown combat missions over Vietnam. Evidently non-stop from Japan where he was actually stationed. Pretty rangy.
People should take care of themselves. We have had too much of the government “responding to the concerns” of everyone with his hand out. ENOUGH! We are creating a weak society that is dependent on the nanny state for every damned thing.
In a time when people had large families, there could always be a safety net in place that didn’t rely on government.
When families have single children as is often the case, that kind of safety net isn’t there. Hence, a limited welfare state remains indispensable.
Tom Harkin must have known that ObamaCare was about to destroy his fellow pro-Obama Democratic Senators like Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagan when he decided not to join them in seeking re-election.
But it’s one thing to leave a sinking ship; it’s even worse when, having gotten himself safely to shore, he gives interviews condemning ObamaCare, which the remaining Democrats will have to live with and suffer from for the foreseeable future, since Obama will veto any attempts at repealing it.
The best thing any Democrat can do now is to never mention the word ‘’ObamaCare’’ in public again, and to hope that in the upcoming Supreme Court ObamaCare case, Chief Justice Roberts won’t fail them by once again injecting a whole new lease on life into this terrible law.
I don’t believe Rats like Schumer and Harkin are making any statements that have not been cleared from the top. It’s all a bunch of malarkey meant to distract the public from what the Soros Administration is doing to this country.
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