Posted on 11/16/2013 8:57:16 AM PST by Hojczyk
Is the president’s Obamacare “fix” part of the Obama administration’s pattern of deceit or a product of its frequent delusion?
A cursory discussion with almost anyone who knows anything about the insurance business would have alerted the president to the fact that his proposal is unworkable. The initial take from experts on both the right and the left is that the president did not fix anything yesterday. Insurance industry experts agree that the very idea that canceled health policies can be renewed or extended for one year is laughable —
especially with the cumbersome rules that would have to accompany any such temporary reinstatements or extensions. One must assume the White House consulted experts before President Obama announced his plan. So we can rule out delusion. Surely this was an informed decision … right?
Meanwhile, this is the administration that felt compelled to affirmatively announce twice on camera in the past week that they are “not stupid.” Well, if Team Obama is so certain they aren’t stupid, maybe they think we are all the stupid ones. Or, maybe the president thinks he can sell this to the American people — deceiving them at least until after the 2014 elections.
But the tide has not shifted: Democrats could soon conclude that blaming Republicans for depriving 48+ million Americans of health care is better than having 114+ million American households furious at your meddling with their health insurance and ridiculing your hallmark accomplishment. The big punt is still possible. There is a chance Obamacare could be repealed in a bipartisan vote.
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I wouldn't call them silly for focusing on the website and cancellations. This has been a successful strategy and those are the very things that have caused Obama to "apologize", lose popularity, and reverse course on one of his key planks.
Now, if you want to begin talking about how the GOP wants to "take away Medicaid funds from the minorities, women, and poorest among us" at the exact time Obama is losing his mojo be my guest but be prepared to see Obama grab the reins again and recover his popularity as the Dems successfully remind the public how unfeeling conservatives are.
I’ve chopped up a few downed trees, let’s start a bonfire and cook up some congress critters and senate scum,
Not to mention that smarter than dirt Marxist mooselimb punk poser.
I don’t think they even need to vote anymore... think it’s done ‘for them’.
You've got a good point there. The dead get it done 'for them' too.
But just in case, they have the Navigator/ACORN scum, er, employees or the website to sign them up anyhow. Failing that, when they apply for their free EBT/SNAP credit cards, they get the same wonderful service.
America! Hey, is this a GREAT country, or what!!??
Trouble with that is that Obama has already cut people’s healthcare.
He’s only cut healthcare- or raised it’s price- for working people.
The majority who don’t work are coming out ahead. They don’t care that there’s no way to pay for what they’re getting. They never have.
They’ll never vote for a ‘fix’ for Obamacare that means they’ll get less and only the Dems can promise that.
JohnGalt is up against it in 2014.
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