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The Obamacare Disaster
Hearland Policy Study ^ | Sept. 10 2010 | Peter Ferrara

Posted on 11/21/2025 10:42:11 AM PST by RicocheT

The act’s supporters said it would achieve the long-sought goal of universal health insurance while preserving the high quality and freedom of choice that are the hallmarks of America’s health care system.

Peter Ferrara says the act’s supporters are wrong. “Obamacare,” he writes in the conclusion to this Heartland Policy Study, “is a disaster. Rather than liberate the American health care system from bureaucracy and waste, it blankets it with more of both, suffocating innovation and destroying freedom. The result is a system that is inconsistent with the freedom, prosperity, high living standards, and traditions of the American people.”

Ferrara has been writing books and reports on health care and entitlement reform for three decades. He served as a senior staff member in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Ronald Reagan and as associate deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush. He also has served as an associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law. He received an undergraduate degree in economics magna cum laude from Harvard College and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Peter Ferrara Peter Ferrara, J.D., is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute and an advisor for entitlement reform and budget policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: democratcorruption; democratincompetence; democrats; healthcare; nancypelosi; obamacarehealthcare; obamunism; pelosi

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ObamaCare is a disaster and funding it caused the stupid shutdown we just went through
1 posted on 11/21/2025 10:42:11 AM PST by RicocheT
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To: RicocheT

It wasn’t a fault, it was a feature.


2 posted on 11/21/2025 10:47:31 AM PST by tcox4575
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To: RicocheT

Bkmk


3 posted on 11/21/2025 10:48:19 AM PST by sauropod
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To: tcox4575

It was designed to fail. Next step is National Healthcare. Leftists play the long con.


4 posted on 11/21/2025 11:00:39 AM PST by fhayek
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To: RicocheT

And elected republicans refuse to abolish it.

They could pass a bill today. They will not. Could’ve yesterday. They did not. Could tomorrow. Not gonna happen.


5 posted on 11/21/2025 11:01:57 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: RicocheT

Literally everything connected to Obama eventually turns to corruption and destruction - from Ukraine to BLM to Syria/Libya to American Healthcare

The man is an angel of death


6 posted on 11/21/2025 11:02:46 AM PST by PGR88
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To: RicocheT

It was always intended to be a disaster to pave the way for socialized medicine.


7 posted on 11/21/2025 11:03:53 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: RicocheT

Obamacare made insurance companies billions it went as planed.

Kickbacks hid?????????????????????.

NEVER trust a democrat with anything EVER.


8 posted on 11/21/2025 11:04:11 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: RicocheT

I get a laugh with the YouTube ad showing 2 palefaces disturbed about the rising 0bama care premiums.


9 posted on 11/21/2025 11:18:10 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: RicocheT

odoofuscare was/is/always will be a demoncRAT boondoggle. Time to finish it. Erase it from our existence.


10 posted on 11/21/2025 11:22:49 AM PST by gildafarrell ("To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!")
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To: tcox4575

From the very first, I felt that both Obama & Obamacare were both a big mistake. I also felt that all that was needed to understand this was a brief instruction on both subjects. Obama as president didn’t feel right from the first, nor did Obamacare.


11 posted on 11/21/2025 11:32:41 AM PST by oldtech
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To: RicocheT

It was designed to fail. But Trump won. That wasn’t suppose to happen.


12 posted on 11/21/2025 11:44:04 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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To: RicocheT

“The Obamacare Disaster”

The Obamapresidency was a Disaster

There, fixed it


13 posted on 11/21/2025 12:14:53 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: TBP

Bingo!


14 posted on 11/21/2025 1:11:19 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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