Obama Urges Republicans to Drop Health Law Fight (NEVER! We are not a Communist Country!)

ny times ^ | 10/1/2013 | Jackie Calmes

[tobyhill]

Flanked by new beneficiaries of his health law, President Obama on Tuesday publicly admonished Republicans in the House to “reopen the government” rather than continue to block federal spending to battle the three-year-old Affordable Care Act.

“As long as I am president, I will not give in to reckless demands by some in the Republican Party to deny affordable health insurance to millions of hard-working Americans,” Mr. Obama said, adding with a gesture toward his guests in the sunny Rose Garden, “I want Republicans in Congress to know – these are the Americans you’d hurt if you were allowed to dismantle this law.”

The president’s televised appearance captured the split-screen aspect of the first day of October: The first day of a new fiscal year dawned to a government shuttered for lack of new funding, yet for the first time putting into effect a key piece of the health-care law that is at the center of the budget showdown between the parties. Tuesday was the first day that uninsured Americans, about 15 percent of the population, could start enrolling in the state-based insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, created by the 2010 law.

[mrsmel]

I don’t know if they could even get MSM, which includes Fox, to cover them if they did have the brains or the will to hold such a press conference.

[Billthedrill]

The American people never "voted for" 0bamacare - it was never on the ballot, and polls have run against it for quite some time now. These people voted for it. There are no Republicans in the group, it was passed without a single Republican vote:

Remember the smirking triumphalism of the Democrats who crammed this thing down our throats? And they lost their majority in the House as a result. That's how a representative government works. The people the American people DID vote for are now digging in their heels against a 2000-page monster never read by the people who voted for it. That's also how a representative government works.

Laws once passed are not written in stone, they are subject to review, as this one is. It isn't passing it.

Nevertheless, the idea that once in place the law can't be rescinded lest it "hurt people" is a clear indication that the Democrats know perfectly well they're creating a dependent class that will consider itself beholden to them and forced to vote their way lest they lose their benefits. There is something so cold and immoral about that that it defies description.

Kill 0bamacare. Now.

[alloysteel]

The “few” were not that hurt by the failure to have health insurance coverage. They still had access to some kind of assistance in gaining most services. It just was not a “free pass”, they had to jump through a few hoops (ok, a LOT of them, sometimes), but assistance could still be found.

As for just about everybody else, they had already been prudent enough and with sufficient foresight to obtain either coverage for themselves and their families, or had made other arrangements for whatever health care needs that may arise, including adaptation to chronic conditions or drawing upon their personal resources to satisfy their needs for that purpose.

Health care is not a dedicated right conferred by the Constitution, nor is it an obligation of the employer. It is and always has been the duty and responsibility for the individual to secure his or her own good health, described as a state of not being ill or so badly damaged as to unable to function.

There are a lot of ways to throw away good health, and one of the most pernicious is to depend upon others to make sure somebody (or several somebodies) other than yourself are doing what should be done to avoid the consequences of bad behavior on your part.

Not every bad behavior ends with negative impact on one’s health, but poor prognosis on health is almost always because of some bad behavior which led up to the condition.

Which gets back to my belief that some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced. The other 5% or so is because of getting the way of somebody else’s temper tantrum.

[mrsmel]

They want as many people dying earlier than necessary as possible to lessen their time on earth and hence their chances for salvation. Abortion seems to contradict this premise, but was a necessary step in the degradation of human life. Anti-abortion is the one conservative position which has more younger adherents than previously.

[MrB]

“They want as many people dying earlier than necessary as possible to lessen their time on earth and hence their chances for salvation.”

“They” probably don’t understand this motivation,
but it IS the motivation of their ideology’s founder.

[rrrod]

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!”

[mrsmel]

Yes, the father of lies is their father, though they may not know it.

[Arrowhead1952]

The American people never "voted for" 0bamacare - it was never on the ballot, and polls have run against it for quite some time now. These people voted for it.

The people who voted for that piece of crap should be the ones on 0 bummer care. I'd like to see that big gavel stuck up pig lousy with the end of the handle sticking out.

[Travis McGee]

[CSM]

“As long as I am president, I will not give in to reckless demands by some in the Republican Party to deny affordable health insurance to millions of hard-working Americans,”

If I am not forced to buy something then I am being denied that something? What is not banned is required!

[petitfour]

But he would deny millions of Americans from the freedom to not have health insurance? Insurance is not health care.

What kind of American would force that on his fellow citizens?

[LibLieSlayer]

Bugger off kenyan... you know you will!

[JimRed]

(NEVER! We are not a Communist Country!...YET.)

[IronJack]

Let’s do the same thing. Have Ted Cruz round up some useful tools then claim they’re among the billions of hard-working Americans who have already lost their healthcare benefits because of obamascare. Might not hurt to bring out a little crippled boy (think Tiny Tim), a blind black dwarf lesbian, a grizzled WWII vet (complete with American Legion barracks cap) and maybe an earnest-looking illegal immigrant or two.

[rrrod]

Tell em to stand tall and fight!

http://www.speaker.gov/contact

[Farnsworth]

Sorry to say Republicans don’t have the guts or the backbone to stand against this BS. They will fold, they always do.

[Justa]

No way. We already know how this ends.

Epic FAIL

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Poor, poor, doofus.

[Wanderer99]

I'm seeing children being murdered by the state in Europe. It's already happening there.

The second Amendment was created for a reason. Under no circumstances should conservatives EVER give in to pressure to give that up. You are better off losing your life savings then losing your only means to protect your family from Obama's evil murderous power.

[Wanderer99]

The message about what their real intentions are needs to be heard by every citizen in the U.S. that is too stupid to figure it out on their own.

The reelection of this idiot proved that we have an entire nation of idiots. If we fail to fight back against Obama then it will be more rational to flee the country for a more productive society than stay here and live in crushing poverty. Who in their right mind would work their arses off and miss the formative years of their children's lives just so that they can appease the insatiable lust of an ungrateful and worthless leftist mob? I refuse!