Posted on 12/20/2015 5:28:56 AM PST by Libloather
Clinton claims rising health care costs and deductibles since the passage of Obamacare are just 'glitches'
Hillary Clinton said tonight that cost-raising problems with the nation's health care reform law are mere 'glitches,' which she blamed in part on GOP governors.
In the Democratic debate, held this evening in Manchester, New Hampshire, ABC News' Martha Raddatz informed Clinton that costs for Americans who already had health care before Obamacare have risen 27 percent in the last five years.
'Deductibles are up 67 percent,' Raddatz said. 'What's broken in Obamacare and needs to be fixed right now?'
'I would certainly build on the successes of the Affordable Care Act and work to fix some of the glitches that you just referenced,' Clinton replied.
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Those glitches are devastating the family budgets and healthcare of millions of Americans
Thank you GOP and all of the obamacare- exempt congress and USSC, and have a very merry Christmas stuffing your overpaid faces
Well, if your ultimate goal is fully government-controlled, single-payer health care, then these inconveniences — the death and financial mayhem — are indeed merely glitches on the way to the democrat socialist utopia. Cracking a few eggs, don’t you know?
People keep throwing around the term “ single payer”
I haven’t seen or heard of the plan to make all doctors government employees
Liberalism is the USA’s biggest glitch.
That is one heck of a glitch. Wait until tax time when people are scrambling for their 1095 forms. Employers can get two automatic extensions so some will not receive them until late March.
Everything every Democrat says (and true for an increasing number of Republicans) should only be publicized as satire or semi-serious news.
I’ve put an additional $26,000 AFTER TAX in my pocket since the inception of Obamacare, Jan 1, 2014.
How did I do it? I cancelled health care insurance. Total health care expenses since then are just under $500.
Americans need to wake up. We don’t actually NEED health care insurance, though it can be great for if you get a catastrophic disease. And if you watch your health, avoid fast food, etc. The risk of that is so low that insurance is nowhere near worth the cost. I’d get a bronze plan for $75 a month, but anything else is overpriced so, as a free american, I choose not to buy it.
Good luck with that.
While that is what the left would really like, they really don't need to go that far.
Single payer makes them all defacto government employees because if they don't conform to a list of rules which Uncle Sam dictates, they don't get paid. Just look how the HR Departments of many corporations enforce political correctness in hiring and discipline decisions. The HR manager is essentially the government's commissar, but paid by the company under threat of ruinous lawsuits.
It’s an unadvertised goal. They want to bankrupt the system and make insurance for people so high they are willing to let government take it over like Medicare/Medicaid - for everybody. They’ll do it because they will “tax only the Rich for it”.
If one had kept up with Hillary’s Health Task Force back in the early 90s before the Contract With America put Clinton in a predicament and forced him to the right, they’d have seen that her plan was to make it a crime for a doctor to take private payment (and be forced to accept the ‘government’ reimbursement rate). That is essentially making the health care workers ‘employees’.
This is also coming for ObamaCare, and the simpering RINO House and Senate will go along with it. “Please Sir, May I have another? [beating]
Her new campaign motto: “Witches for glitches”.
There’s a ‘Marie Antoinette’ -like statement if I ever heard one.
Doctors don’t have to be government employees to implement single payer. Medicare and Medicaid are essentially single payer.
Yep. The $250,000 a speech ‘ordinary’ person has just provided the Republican candidate's campaign another soundbite. Amazing how the party that has convinced many that they are the ‘party of the people’ is actually tone deaf to the people.
“and work to fix SOME of the glitches”
Fix just SOME of the glitches? I guess the other “glitches” must really be features then, right Hillary?
“Doctor’s don’t have to be government employees to implement single payer. Medicare and Medicaid are essentially single payer.”
I agree, and both Medicare and Medicaid often pay a fraction of what it actually costs for services, and only a fraction of that is actually a physician fee. At the same time Obamacare’s mandates and structures have led to a huge increase in the bureaucracy of medicine, with an explosion of middle managers and others who have nothing to do with direct patient care. Just like in every other aspect of the market, the more ‘middlemen’ you have in the mix, the more the price goes up.
Not one, single, republican voted for Obamacare at its inception, and now - somehow - they’re surprised that no republicans support it, governors, or not.
That’s real progressive thinking right there!
We didn’t ask for it, we didn’t want it then, and we don’t want it now.
Hillary can belch all the fire she wants, I ain’t buying lt! She tries to shame us for not being fools.
Obamacare is an abomination.
Huma is right. Clinton is confused a lot. Confused and totally clueless. A regular ditz.
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