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AOC doesn’t think anyone will be ‘heartbroken’ over losing private health insurance
twitchy.com ^ | 6:22 pm on July 17, 2019 | Brett T.

Posted on 07/18/2019 11:37:37 AM PDT by Red Badger

Joe Biden, who was vice president when President Obama reportedly fixed everything wrong with health insurance in America by signing Obamacare into law, just this week dusted off his old boss’s line at an AARP event, telling attendees, “If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If you like your private insurance, you can keep it.”

That same line coming from Obama’s mouth was awarded “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, but what’s important is it pits Biden, the alleged moderate, against his socialist competitors who are demanding nothing less than Medicare for All and the elimination of private health insurance.

Of course, America was wondering what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought of all this, and she replied that no one would be heartbroken to lose their private health insurance. Private health insurance is a for-profit business, which makes it a bad thing … doesn’t it?

.@AOC, asked about warnings from Joe Biden on Medicare for All, says nobody is “heartbroken” at the idea of losing private insurance.

“People like their health care, they like their doctor,” she says. “But I’d be interested in what the public polling on Aetna would look like.”

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 17, 2019

No, she wouldn’t. She wants to eliminate the entire industry — why would she care what the American people think?

This keeps being passed off as a truism, but the polling on private insurance exists and is surprisingly strong. Similar to people who hate Congress, but liking THEIR member, people tend to like their plans. https://t.co/6veylWs7Zx

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 17, 2019

Example https://t.co/24ekN1MDyA

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 17, 2019

She should speak for herself.

— Ernestine (@SexyNurse0987) July 17, 2019

WRONG! AND POLITICIANS SHOULD NOT PRESUME TO TELL PEOPLE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT ANYTHING. Interestingly- support for MFA drops drastically when those being polled are told they would have to give up their private insurance.

— joy moody (@juniormoody4) July 17, 2019

For the 842nd time. Y'all really want a second term for @realDonaldTrump, don't you? https://t.co/mx3w3dVPEL

— reedgalen (@reedgalen) July 17, 2019

i absolutely love my employee provided insurance and i will take up arms if im forced to go to medicare for all, which is absolute trash https://t.co/j1uw4CGVBu

— John (@John_Faker) July 17, 2019

My family has been kept afloat for 15 years because of our insurance.

AOC again showing her spoiled and privileged, bourgeois background.

And those two statements are not in any way related to each other.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

What right does some bartender from Queens have to take away my family's insurance, or anyone else's?

The arrogance is astonishing.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

Eliminating private insurance is an extremist, unpopular position with massive economic and health ramifications.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

This "squad" of freshmen all live in a privileged bubble.

They get access to top education, live in wealthy cities, and have been surrounded by like-minded individuals their entire lives.

They need to stop proclaiming what society wants and start understanding what society is

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

Go this route and you're going to lose the majority.

IN EVERY. SINGLE. POLL. The public is fine with making Medicare universally available, NOT with eliminating private insurance.

You talk about "little guys" but want to make our decisions for us.

Get bent.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

Let me spell it out for you: your Dem +60 district is a bubble.

The country is not comprised of college towns. This is a great way to lose the suburbs you just won in 2018.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

I encourage you to get off Twitter and TV and go tour the nation.

You'll find out pretty damn quick how unpopular that attitude is.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

AOC and Co get (deserved) defenses from most people because the president is a scumbag.

Then they go and say elitist bullshit like this and discount how clear majorities of voters feel because we're "ideologically beneath" them.

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) July 17, 2019

Could that be the dumbest one yet? A woman who has never had to face a serious health or insurance crisis is going to tell the rest of America what it needs or wants? https://t.co/yUQYryxSkf

— LastAmericanOptimist (@bpeithmann_) July 17, 2019

Clueless https://t.co/YtJNoOql4p

— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) July 17, 2019


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aoc; healthcare; insurance; thesquad
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To: GOPJ

‘medicaid for all’

Berniecare would cover custodial nursing home care, which Medicare doesn’t cover.


61 posted on 07/18/2019 12:55:24 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Red Badger

OAC should use her government health plan and have her face sewn on to her butt.


62 posted on 07/18/2019 12:58:18 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Red Badger; All
"AOC doesn’t think anyone will be ‘heartbroken’ over losing private health insurance"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Constitutionally clueless AOC is exploiting low-information voters, trying to win their votes with promises of unconstitutional national healthcare imo.

More specifically, regardless what the misguided Roberts Supreme Court wants everybody to think about Obamacare and insurance mandate, the Roberts Court wrongly "overlooked" that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified the following about so-called national healthcare.

The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to dictate policy, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate healthcare. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions made by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices.

Regarding healthcare insurance, justices had also clarified that regulating insurance contracts is not within the scope of Congress's limited Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), regardless if buyer and seller are domiciled in different states.

"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphases added] of indemnity against loss.” —Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)

The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government that misguided AOC is unthinkingly promoting…

Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president by doing the following.

Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT's vision for MAGA, but will also promise to surrender state powers that previous congresses have been stealing from the states back to the states.

And to make such changes permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in working with the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great)

63 posted on 07/18/2019 1:02:14 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Brian Griffin

“Catastrophic-only coverage results in catastrophes.”

Catastrophic insurance is created to cover catastrophes. Catastrophic insurance will cover cancer as long as the person buys the insurance before the person gets cancer.

A person without insurance that develops cancer used to be able to qualify for the high risk state pools, but after 0-care they are gone now. If the person is indigent, there is Medicaid coverage.

So what’s the problem. You want crappy federal government insurance that will be paying for all those bureaucrats determining what drugs and treatment you can get? You like the government surveillance on your medical record? Turn in you guns if you have a psych diagnosis or the government doctor doesn’t like you.

Honestly, if you are going to rely on sh**ty government insurance, you should make every effort to stay healthy. You know, people on Medicaid actually had worse outcome than patients without insurance. So you get what you pay for.


64 posted on 07/18/2019 1:09:54 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: Red Badger

I am heartbroken when it’s last call. She needs to go back to being a drink pusher.


65 posted on 07/18/2019 1:14:34 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Red Badger

A-hole On Crack, with her golden Congressional health care package, can suck raw sewage!


66 posted on 07/18/2019 1:20:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Brian Griffin

What is the purpose of insurance?


67 posted on 07/18/2019 1:20:20 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: Red Badger

They want to take away your private health insurance and your 401k. Repeat and keep Repeating!


68 posted on 07/18/2019 1:28:23 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: bray

You may be heartbroken when they disallow your child life saving heart surgery.
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I have a son with brain cancer and a wife with kidney cancer.
Without their very good private plans they would be gone by now.


69 posted on 07/18/2019 1:49:25 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: I want the USA back

Change that to 75 and I will believe you.

The sooner you die the sooner you stop collecting Social Security and Medicare


70 posted on 07/18/2019 3:31:34 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

There is no gov health care. The insurance comes from private companies.


71 posted on 07/18/2019 7:01:53 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Red Badger

Better yet let 65 yr olds out of Medicare.


72 posted on 07/18/2019 9:18:27 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray

It should be ‘optional’ With no penalties for not signing up or signing later............


73 posted on 07/19/2019 6:13:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Brian Griffin

Bernie’s a commie. Nothing he says can be trusted against reality...


74 posted on 07/19/2019 6:35:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
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To: Henry Hnyellar
There is no gov health care. The insurance comes from private companies.

Most people understand that the term "Gov Health Care" is a euphemism - a verbal shortcut - for health care performed by private companies who are reimbursed by the government with money extorted from taxpayers.

Most people.

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75 posted on 07/19/2019 7:10:39 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (My Corps, Your Corps, Our Corps, Marine Corps!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Red Badger.

76 posted on 07/22/2019 1:47:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

My premiums more than tripled from 400 a month for a family of five to 1470 a month

From 2010 till now under Obamacare


77 posted on 07/22/2019 8:31:00 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: bray

She’s too important to carry a baby to term


78 posted on 07/22/2019 8:31:54 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: SunkenCiv

AOC is wrong again...


79 posted on 07/22/2019 9:07:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Joe Biden in 1987:"We (Delawareans) Were on the South's Side in the Civil War". Back in chains Joe?)
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To: Red Badger

What a presumptuous little bitch.


80 posted on 07/22/2019 9:08:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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