I think what most people don’t get is that this isn’t about the Insurance companies or the people who buy insurance. Obama couldn’t care less about them because, for the most part, they are not his Base. Rather it is about the multitude who will use Obamacare to sign up for Medicaid. That is the sweet spot for the Dems that no one is concerned with (yet). For every 1 person who is buying insurance off these exchanges, 10+ are signing up for Medicaid. And all of these people will be good Democratic voters for the rest of their lives. The fact that it will accelerate the bankruptcy of the country and the imposition of fascist martial law (to maintain the Entitlement state) is just icing on the cake.
Silly GOP.
Maybe I'm pessimistic but I don't think it matters. obama will not sign it and there are enough Rats in the Senate, that are not up for re-election, that the votes aren't there to override a veto.
All the nonsense about being able to keep your plan for 1 more year is political cover for Rats.
The insurance companies are going to be bailed out by the protection they get from losses built into the bill (fascism). Rubio wants to kill that part of the bill but reid will never allow it to be brought up for a vote.
The GOPe does not want to kill obamacare. They just want to be exempted and in charge.
For all the talk nothing is going to be done to kill this destruction of our freedom. The Rats will take a hit in the short term, but in a couple years (after the employer mandate crisis runs it's course) the fix will be for expanding Medicare to cover everyone!
I am praying I'm wrong, but I'm so convinced I'm not I'm already investing outside the USA.
“There is a chance Obamacare could be repealed in a bipartisan vote.”
Dream on...it will not happen.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
The fact remains that at least 50% of the voting population are deadbeats with their hands out. All the rats need to do is carve out another entitlement niche from the other half.
Scroll back the clock to Oct. 1 - just six short weeks ago...and who would have bet even a dollar we’d be seeing headlines like this in — the Washington Post, of all places!
We live in interesting times indeed.
That all depends. Seems to me it's being taken for granted that there will be no more Benghazi revelations, IRS revelations, Iran terrors, or that any additional scandal will be uncovered in the Obama administration which seems unlikely.
And then what about the millions who probably won't be able to access the website for months to come...if ever? The turmoil in healthcare caused by Obama is not ending anytime soon.
Dark days? Not a chance. Elections are fake now.
Brutal!
This is another article that misses the main pitfall. The “5-7 million” new signups were going to come from from those whose policies were cancelled as “substandard.” Those were the people who would be interested in maintaining medical insurance . Without the “5 %” they publicly discount as having any importance, there is not even that fig leaf of ability to “pay for it” by new signups. The budget scoring on this is going to shoot through the roof. “ Obamacare cost rises to $ 1.5 trillion” is going to be the unavoidable headline and is likely to wake up even a lot of those who have been “So Whaters” and among the 40% who continue to approve of Obama up until now. I can’t see his being able to walk a “Medicare for all” argument past staggering numbers like that.
The pattern of deceit IS the product of frequent delusion..
“So we can rule out delusion”
No, you can’t!
Ed Rogers
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Ed Rogers is a contributor to the PostPartisan blog, and a veteran of the White House and several national campaigns. He is the chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group, which he founded with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in 1991. Rogers has been involved with numerous Republican political campaigns, including the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. In the first Bush White House, he reported to chief of staff John Sununu. In the Reagan White House, he worked in the office of political affairs.
When you lose Walter Cronkite, strike that - When you lose the Washington Post ...
Every republican running in 2014 needs to emphasize that Obamacare has just begun. The employer mandate was delayed until after the election, and will cancel far more policies than have already been cancelled.
Nope. Just something that popped into the lizard Queen's head.
President Obama announced his plan.
The cartoon channel must have added a new line up.
Dark “days”? Let’s make it “decades”, instead, okay?
Dead? No. Democrats are coyotes, fire ants, roaches, rats, microbes. Adapt, survive, reproduce, infect.