Posted on 10/26/2013 4:23:05 AM PDT by markomalley
President Obama in his weekly address Saturday said he was proud to be a “salesman” for Obamacare despite criticism over the glitch-filled rollout of the law’s insurance exchanges.
“Some people have poked fun at me this week for sounding like an insurance salesman. And that’s okay,” said Obama. “I’d still be out there championing this law even if the website were perfect.”
Obama’s comments came after another week of withering criticism over the administration’s rollout of a new website designed to enroll consumers in the health care law’s public insurance exchanges.
Obama said at an event Monday that he is frustrated with the website and vowed it would be fixed, but also defended the health care law as a “good deal” for the public.
Opponents of the health care law criticized Obama, saying he was forced to resell the public on supporting his signature legislative achievement.
Obama on Saturday said he welcomed the role as salesman-in-chief and touted the law’s benefits.
“I’ll never stop fighting to help more hardworking Americans know the economic security of health care,” he said.
The president also mocked Republicans’ criticisms of the website and concern for consumers, saying they had “spent the last few years so obsessed with denying those same people access to health insurance.”
Obama again argued, as he has all week, that the health care law is more than just a website.
“We did not fight so hard for this reform for so many years just to build a website. We did it to free millions of American families from the awful fear that one illness or injury — to yourself or your child — might cost you everything you’d worked so hard to build,” he said.
“We have already delivered on part of that promise, and we will not rest until the work is done,” Obama added.
Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients, who has been tapped to repair Healthcare.gov, said Friday that the issues would be resolved and the website functioning “smoothly” before December.
Republicans have seized on the glitch-filled rollout of the website and say it highlights the unworkability of Obama’s health care law.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is slated to testify before Congress next week.
In the GOP weekly address, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., vowed to investigate the botched rollout and press for a delay of the law’s individual mandate.
“Despite hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars invested, the website still does not work for most,” said Upton.
“At a time when we can do everything from ordering a pizza, flowers, or airline tickets, or banking and paying bills, they expect the same reliable service from healthcare.gov — and it’s still not ready for primetime.”
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The problem with the wussy Republican Party is that it insists on taking the high road. It is reluctant to blast its opponents, while the communist left has no problem lying or overblowing every Republican misstep. The Republicans have so much they can pin on the leftists — Obamacare, Benghazi, IRS, Fast & Furious and so on. Republican candidates should learn from their leftist counterparts. Get out there and remind the voters frequently of the evils of this administration, including Obanacare.
-——Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients, who has been tapped to repair Healthcare.gov-—
Simple Sibelius is fired. She now gets paid for looking spiffy flanked by spiffy looking minions recruited for the photos. Spiffy is by current definition wearing something that exhibits regular patterns of black on white.
Unstated but supremely important, who is Zients going to tap for brains and practical dirty hands know how? The world knows one thing....... the existing US government has no one that possesses the ability to do the job. Finding someone with those abilities and stupid enough to take the job is not going to be easy.
“The nitwits that votedfor him, which includes the massed media, would blindly buy fence post holes and sailboat fuel from Idi Obama.”
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I missed my chance to get into the post hole business, we used to have a lot of the old hand dug wells that had been abandoned in this area and I thought I could probably cut them up in little pieces and sell them for post holes but they have all been filled in lately. I think someone is selling sailboat fuel though, I notice these little cans with a trigger that you pull and the air puffs out through a little stem.
I don’t think the one has any “practical” understanding of anything! He is however a world class master of the IMpractical. Few can compete with him in that category.
It is so sad that he won’t embrace the role of leader.
I looked out my window this morning and saw a large gaithering of Redcoats marching in the direction or Concord. Wondering what that could mean? Maybe I will wake my son and go see what I can do to help.
Make Ready!
“Salesman” means whatever Obamacare’s design fault, Buraq does not bear responsibility.
He could be just as “victimized” as you and me, that he was deceived by his people ...... I hate that guy.
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