Posted on 12/03/2013 1:00:22 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama declared Tuesday that ObamaCare "is working" and that "we're not going back," as the White House looked to reboot its efforts to sell Americans on the president's signature healthcare law.
Obama said that "poor execution" of the rollout of HealthCare.gov had "clouded" the benefits of the bill, but said he would not allow technical glitches to undermine a program that was providing financial security for many Americans.
"If I've got to fight another three years to make sure this law works, that's what we'll do," Obama said.
"We're not repealing it as long as I'm president," he added. "I want everybody to be clear about that. We'll make it work."
The president, flanked by supporters who had benefited from aspects of the law, vacillated between a defense of his embattled program and a sales pitch intended to highlight some of ObamaCare's benefits for ordinary families.
Obama shared stories of individuals who had been helped by provisions of the law that allowed those under 26 to remain on their parents' health insurance, or receive free preventive care.
Acknowledging that the benefits of the program had "gotten lost a little bit," the president urged attendees to tell their friends and families about the law's success stories.
"It's working better now and it's just going to keep on working better over time," Obama said.
In his remarks, the president shied away from directly addressing more recent critiques of the ObamaCare website, including reports that the portal was continuing to provide insurers with error-riddled enrollment information. Obama did say that as new problems arose, the administration would address them.
"Whatever comes up, we're going to fix it," he said, adding later that the White House had " learned not to make wild promises about how perfectly smooth it's going to be."
The president also chastised critics of the law, saying Republicans "haven't presented an alternative" that would address flaws of the pre-ObamaCare system. He singled out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), saying the Republican leader "refused to answer" when asked what his alternate proposal was.
"He just repeated 'repeal' over and over and over again," Obama said.
Earlier Tuesday, McConnell said the president's "campaign-style event won’t solve the myriad problems facing consumers under ObamaCare."
“The American people have been learning about the impact ObamaCare will have on individuals and families in the form of higher premiums, disrupted insurance, and lost jobs—more broken promises from the administration. And they’re becoming increasingly aware of the fact ObamaCare is broken beyond repair," McConnell said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that the president's event was the first of many in a "renewed effort to refocus the public and the public's attention on the benefits of the law."
Carney said that in the coming days, the president and other White House officials would talk about existing benefits under ObamaCare, including insurance plans mandating free preventive care, ending discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, and the curbed growth in healthcare costs.
The White House spokesman said that sales effort would use "a number of different venues," including press events and Internet advertising campaigns.
"This is an opportunity now that the website is functioning effectively for the vast majority of users and we are seeing high volume and high volume being handled effectively by the website and people enrolling that it's an opportune time to talk about, again, the actual benefits that are provided by the law," Carney said.
We have to destroy the middle class in order to save it. < / sarcasm >
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Old progressive victim baiting line.
Good news! If it’s as truthful as “If you like your plan you can keep it”, we’re going back.
It is “working”, it’s destroying things just as it was meant to do.
In other words, “We’re doubling down on stupid.”
Fixed it for him.
Fixed it for him.
FU jug ears.
“We’re not repealing it as long as I’m president,”
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That can be taken care of Impech this CS’er.
Any Democrats up for reelection should be scared to death by having to run on Obama’s “legacy” of failure. Obama is an ideologue and will not compromise even if it takes down the country. He is so into himself he cannot or will not see the impending disaster of Obamacare.
Unlike marriage between a man and a woman, or the second amendment.... when leftists do something it is unchangeable....
lol
He'll work that for another week.
Truth is, Barry is such a bubble boy in the WH that he may not even be aware of what a monumental cluster he's unleashed, and that has his name all over it. In fact, I'd bet that his aides spend a significant amount of each day trying to prevent him from knowing just how awful this thing is.
Poor poor Barry. Poor lying manipulative affirmative action narcissistic arrogant egomaniac sheltered Barry.
He just doesn't know what's coming.
Exactly. Prez Stompy Feet had declared it.
They will be trying to spin this, with the MSM helping, as the greatest achievement in the history of mankind.
We’ll see, butthole.
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