Uh.... President Reagan may have said this but I think that by any protocol, it's required that the person who originally said it gets credited.
Posted on 12/21/2015 3:56:12 AM PST by rootin tootin
Yes, yes. I know. Only a RINO or a (Trumphradites may insert preferred epithet for thinking Republicans here) would claim that the House omnibus spending bill contains anything conservatives can applaud. It does, nonetheless, include such a provision. As Ronald Reagan (who signed several omnibus bills himself) famously said, facts are stubborn things. And one of the most intransigent facts about this bill is that it imposes a deadly dose of fiscal restraint on Obamacare. It requires the law's risk corridor program to remain budget neutral. This is far more dangerous to the Affordable Care Act than most observers realize.
Specifically, it thwarts the Obama administration plan to indiscriminately use taxpayer funds to revive Obamacare’s moribund insurance exchanges. These marketplaces are facing extinction because they have failed to hit their enrollment goals and the individuals who have signed up are far sicker, on average, than expected. Thus, insurers selling coverage through the exchanges are incurring unsustainable losses ... Senator Marco Rubio led a successful effort to insert language that forbade HHS to use general appropriations or Medicare funding to finance the risk corridor program.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
“excess profits”
Fascist Alert!!!!
Who the hell gets to define “excess profits”???????!!!!!!?????
The GOP owns nothing other than reminding the administration that they have to follow the original law, which required the risk corridors to be revenue/budget neutral.
What frosts my gourd is that the wimps in the GOP would allow HHS/Obama to run amuck and raid taxpayer funds to prop up the insurance companies in the first place. Further, if the GOP allows the “owners” of Obamacare, the Democrats, to blame them for this, then shame on them. The way the GOP operates, I’ll just go ahead and say it ... shame on them for not standing up & making the case, because if they would, it’s a winner.
“Trumphraditesâ€, why the need to use that term?”
I cannot remember a presidential race where the major candidate’s supporters are demonized along with the candidate.
“Very difficult to read beyond the name calling”
I stopped on the first sentence, after reading the slur on me personally as a Trump supporter.
I disagree. Taking the side of the taxpayers against the “greedy insurance companies” is always a political win.
Republicans just need to make the case that Democrats want to take taxpayer’s hard earned money and use it to bail out insurers. “Risk corridor” is a term meant to obfuscate, but everyone understands the term “bailout” and they don’t like it.
“... if the GOP allows the ‘owners’ of Obamacare, the Democrats, to blame them for this, then shame on them.”
It is a matter of perception. The DNC always has and always will blame the ‘G’ OP for every change in the weather.
Your point is arguably valid but now the ‘G’ OP is leading the charge for a strict budget mandate while the DNC keeps pushing for more spending. So far as the DNC is concerned, the last spending bill matters most — who cares more is who spends more tax money.
The reason Obama-care is unpopular is founded on our traditon of successful earthshaking economic history — free enterprise. When we get lost in the weeds of budgeting, people want to spare no expense to stay healthy, and ‘a curse on’ whoever opposes that.
Oh, come on.
You can smell their fear. It's glorious.
The untrustworthy thing about 1000 page bills is that it says whatever you want it to say. It may say no new tax money for exchanges on page 743 but prove to me it doesn’t unsay that on page 525 and 893.
This will backfire and the GOP will feel compelled to offer bail-outs to Zero-care until this failed plan is ended, but they should remind everyone that it is a failing system.
Return to the philosophical debate.
‘I cannot remember a presidential race where the major candidate’s supporters are demonized along with the candidate.’
You might after Hellery loses.
“I disagree. Taking the side of the taxpayers against the ‘greedy insurance companies’ is always a political win.”
That is just attempting to shift one lie to another lie. Like Rush says, we need to educate the voter. Interestingly, this is an educational race so far. Cruz and Trump both keep educating people.
Also, the ‘G’ OP is hungry for large-sized donations. They won’t villify insurance companies [nor are they willing to shake them down mobster-style the way the DNC does].
“Republicans just need to make the case that Democrats want to take taxpayer’s hard earned money and use it to bail out insurers.”
It’s more compelling to show Granny and Junior getting their plugs pulled. Death panels trump wasteful spending. And the DNC could nitpick the paperclip budget or some frivolous expense, such as the bottled water they buy for Capitol Hill. In other words ‘lost in the weeds’ — that’s what happens with budget debates unless you have a pure agenda and are willing to cut all frivolous expenses.
It was dangerous to let Zero-Care last so long. The strategists of that dangerous plan are mostly gone from congress now, BTW. They thought it was a campaign voter-getter and didn’t want to end the ‘fun’.
But we can still win the debate, just not by being the Scrooge. We must be pro-free-market. Pro competition. Pro successful healthcare already proven to be the best systems on earth in different nations.
“... everyone understands the term “bailout†and they don’t like it... “
That is why every healthcare bailout should sound distasteful and needs a nation-wide call-to-sanity along with it.
BTW ... we already have annual bailouts. Called the ‘Docfix’ bill. End that and a lot of doctors would abandon us.
BINGO, we have a winner.
Bastiat Bump!
He got it in the 1840’s. ComDem B_tards still don’t. They think they do, but miss reality.
and now for something completely different......
RE: David Catron
the line dividing East Tennessee from South west Virginia also divides the Ketrons from the Catrons. In Tennessee, in Bloomingdale, along the very old road present from the beginning in the late 1700’s and Daniel Boone, live the Ketrons. Across the Holston river in Virginia, along the same very old road live the Catrons.
I don’t know what pissed them off but there was tumult such that they couldn’t stand to have the same name even though they had the same blood
Spectator pimps Rubio....hmmmmmm
Oh, so the Republicans will shut down the government if its not neutral. I get it
At first I thought it was “Lethal Injection for Obama”. But... never mind.
Uh.... President Reagan may have said this but I think that by any protocol, it's required that the person who originally said it gets credited.
Isn’t the real plan for Obamacare and the insurance companies to fail? Then bring in single payer by the government.
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