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Obama dismisses renewed criticism of health care law
The Washington Post ^ | November 16, 2014 | David Nakamura

Posted on 11/16/2014 3:44:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

BRISBANE, Australia — President Obama dismissed renewed criticism of his signature health care law Sunday and disputed an assertion from a former architect of the policy who claimed the administration had deceived lawmakers.

Jonathan Gruber, an economist, suggested last year that the administration’s signature health-care legislation passed in part because of the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of transparency” over its funding mechanisms.

“I just heard about this,” Obama said at a new conference, after wrapping up two days of meetings with world leaders here at the G-20 Summit. “The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed his opinion that I completely disagree with — it is no reflection on the actual process that was run.”....

....“We had a year-long debate,” Obama said. “Go look back at your stories. One thing we can’t say is that we didn’t have a lengthy debate over health care in the United States. Every press outlet here should go back and pull up every clip and every story. It’s fair to say there is not a provision in the health care law that was not extensively debated and was not fully transparent.”......

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aca; california; davidnakamura; demagogicparty; fraud; jonathangruber; liar; lies; memebuilding; nancypelosi; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I just heard about this,” Obama said

Wow! The audacity of a bull***tter. He wants his fawning media to go back and look at their coverage of the transparency and open debates?

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41 posted on 11/16/2014 5:45:31 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Excellence
This reads like a John Semmens satire.

I must admit, I did a close double check to verify it wasn't.

42 posted on 11/16/2014 5:47:03 AM PST by onona (Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens satire.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He sure got paid a lot of consulting money from de gubmint for never working on it!

Liar!


43 posted on 11/16/2014 5:51:20 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Republican. Because we can't all be on welfare.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah, that “healthy debate” basically consisted of the administration, its cronies and the cheerleading media responding to every criticism and warning about the effects of the bill with “Will not!”


44 posted on 11/16/2014 5:52:04 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Shimmer1

He is on record as visiting the WH numerous times and that includes one-on-one meetings w/zer0. His name is on the comic book of lies written for the stupid. He received $5M in total for all his work. He appeared in closed meetings held to *inform* second-tier elitists, such as academics, and in those meetings he bragged about lack of transparency and manipulating the stupid voters. videos of those meetings are now being published.

The people deserve apologies and they just get more lies. They all really do think everyone is a dummy.


45 posted on 11/16/2014 6:07:03 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I just heard about this,” Obama said . . .

It’s fair to say there is not a provision in the health care law that was not extensively debated and was not fully transparent.”

Like everything else, Obama found out presumably on the news. He's the worst informed occupant of our White House in history. He still hasn't heard Pelosi's "we have to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill" or he'd know this was the least transparent legislation in history.

46 posted on 11/16/2014 6:07:15 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This is scary.

He is collapsing. He is forced to create alternative narratives in order to soothe the hurt he received this month.

The problem is, nobody believes a word he says anymore except for the press and the hard core Hopeychangers

47 posted on 11/16/2014 6:40:30 AM PST by LMAO (("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“I just heard about this,” Obama said at a new conference,

Words fail me.

48 posted on 11/16/2014 6:59:18 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: tinyowl

On Friday’s show Rush said his next claim will be he heard about it in the news just like everybody else.

Of course that was said here on FR the day the story broke and for several days thereafter, it seems to me this is where Rush gets material for his commentaries.


49 posted on 11/16/2014 7:58:40 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“We had a year-long debate”
If you want to see what’s in the bill you have to pass it.


50 posted on 11/16/2014 8:31:30 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: reformedliberal; All
An understandable blueprint of the sausage making: The CBO Effectively Used Gruber’s Model to Score Obamacare
51 posted on 11/16/2014 10:17:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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