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Obama: Health care act is law, US can't go backward
Associated Press ^ | Dec. 2, 2016 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/02/2016 3:39:02 PM PST by mdittmar

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To: mdittmar

Hide and watch.


81 posted on 12/02/2016 4:04:09 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: CyberAnt

I am sure he knows, he just knows how stupid many people are. So he speaks to play us all for fools.


82 posted on 12/02/2016 4:04:16 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: mdittmar

BS!!!!


83 posted on 12/02/2016 4:04:31 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: mdittmar

Slavery was Law.


84 posted on 12/02/2016 4:04:58 PM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: yldstrk

There is no government that is bound by the previous decisions of the government thatproceedednthem if they’re willing to fight. Obama, my personal message to you is STFU.


85 posted on 12/02/2016 4:07:16 PM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: mdittmar

Obama clearly believes the old Goebbels maxim that “if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”


86 posted on 12/02/2016 4:07:20 PM PST by PGR88
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To: mdittmar

This POS cant get gone fast enough.


87 posted on 12/02/2016 4:07:47 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: mdittmar

“President Barack Obama is urging the public to help save his health care law, which is in serious danger of being repealed under President-elect Donald Trump.”

Uh, yeah, right, obama. The “public” is gonna fight REAL hard to keep health insurance plans that cost a family of four $30,000 a year, has a $20,000 deductible, whose premiums rise 40%-120% every year, is available from a sole provider (if available at all in some cases),and has a network limited to a few doctors who aren’t taking new patients.

The “public” is gonna fight REAL hard to keep that, by golly!


88 posted on 12/02/2016 4:07:49 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: mdittmar

“helped millions” says he ... “hurt hundreds of millions” says everyone else.


89 posted on 12/02/2016 4:08:06 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: mdittmar

Here’s an idea...

Obamacare may not have to be repealed...

Just create the replacement health-care program...

And...

Don’t fund Obamacare, and just fund the new replacement...

while, transferring the Obamacare members to the, hopefully, better options in the new system...

Eventually, Obamacare will die from lack of use, and the new program will be all that’s left,

and sometime in the future, the Obamacare “law” can be removed from the books as a “quaint and unused and useless” law.


90 posted on 12/02/2016 4:09:49 PM PST by adorno (w)
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To: TYVets

Mr Trump ran and won on the issue of cutting taxes to help the forgotten American and get the economy going again . . . just think about repealing Obozocare as a tax cut for the middle class. . . . And we all know Congress has a history of raising and cutting taxes through legislation. The issue has a different appearance now, doesn’t it?


91 posted on 12/02/2016 4:10:42 PM PST by Susquehanna Patriot (Do Leftist/Liberals Really Believe That Dissent = Highest Form of Patriotism?)
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To: mdittmar

“Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.”


92 posted on 12/02/2016 4:11:28 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!)
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To: mdittmar

Slavery was law too, but we “went backward” and got rid of that horrible institution. It’s okay to repeal terrible, destructive, and inhumane laws - especially another harmful institution like Obamacare.


93 posted on 12/02/2016 4:11:31 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: mdittmar; All
Obamacare actually took the states backward because corrupt Congress scandalously established it by ignoring the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state supermajority.

So if all that Trumpcare amounts to is getting rid of unconstitutional federal regulations and taxes that are an obstacle to affordable INTRAstate healthcare, then that is good.

But if Trumpcare requires new federal powers then Trump needs to do the following. He needs to work with state lawmakers to propose an appropriate Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution to the states, the states not obligated to ratify any proposed constitutional amendment.

94 posted on 12/02/2016 4:12:03 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Jack Hammer

I think, now, he’s just doing a lot of ‘whistling past the graveyard’...


95 posted on 12/02/2016 4:12:13 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: mdittmar

I got this email from Consumer Reports yesterday:
Subject: Kicking families off their health care

Consumers Union

Dear Mark,

Six years ago, we fought hard to secure health coverage for millions of Americans. We won. Thanks to the power of consumers banding together, more than 20 million people are now covered under the Affordable Care Act. The number of insured Americans soared to a record high!

But the gains we’ve made are in grave danger. A new government takes power in Washington in just two months. And some in Congress are already threatening to repeal the key health reforms that expand access and protect consumers. That would devastate the millions of Americans who rely on these programs for coverage.

We cannot allow Congress to turn back the clock on progress.

Tell Congress: Don’t repeal important health programs that cover millions of Americans. We can’t afford to play politics with so many lives at stake.

Add your name »

It’s easy to forget how bad things were before we passed this law. But six years ago, almost half of all Americans were at risk of being denied access to health care because of pre-existing conditions. Insurance companies could deny coverage to children with cancer. Millions of young adults left college with no way to afford insurance. Families couldn’t get coverage for preventive cancer screenings. And insurance companies spent inordinate proportions of our health premiums on marketing, administration, and CEO salaries instead of actual care.

We can’t go back to that broken system. Our right to affordable health care should not fall victim to Washington’s partisan politics. I know we can win this fight if enough of us speak out:

Add your name to tell Congress: don’t play politics with our health care coverage. We won’t go back to the way things were before reform.

When consumers band together, we’re an extraordinarily powerful force for good. That was true in 2010 when we secured these protections in the first place. It remains true today.

Thank you for signing our petition. This is just the beginning of the struggle to protect our health care access and protections in the new year, and it’s heartening to know you’re ready to fight with us.

After you add your name, please forward this email to friends and family so we can grow our movement and send a more powerful message to Congress.

Elizabeth Foley
Consumers Union, Policy and Action from Consumer Reports

Add your name »

Consumers Union, 7020 Easy Wind Dr, Austin, TX 78752


My reply:

It was built on lies!
You can keep doctor—LIE!
You can keep your plan—LIE!
You will save $2,500.00/year—HUGE LIE!
It needs to be done over.


96 posted on 12/02/2016 4:13:01 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know.? -Homer Simpson)
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To: mdittmar

I wish we could go backward and have him never elected - twice.

If we could go back further I would have him been born a woman, whose mother was married to a Christian Pastor from Texas.

We could go back even further and he could have been born when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.


97 posted on 12/02/2016 4:13:09 PM PST by funfan
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To: mdittmar

Better analogy is get out of a hole.

Obama heavily modified it by executive order. So should Trump.


98 posted on 12/02/2016 4:13:15 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: mdittmar

We went backward on Jan 20, 2009.


99 posted on 12/02/2016 4:13:35 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: SpaceBar
Spoken like a democrat circa 1865 but with slightly different subject matter.

Yep. Democrats have not been this pissed off since the Republicans freed all of the Democrats' slaves.

100 posted on 12/02/2016 4:13:49 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!)
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