“If you like your current health plan, you can keep your current health plan.” – Barack Obama
How many times has our esteemed president said that, do you think? For how long has he been saying it?
Did you know that every time he’s said it in the past three years, he’s known it wasn’t true? He’s known that his signature policy would cause millions of people to lose their current health insurance. NBC News—hardly a bastion of editorial conservatism—has the investigative piece here. (Updated: Well, that lasted about five hours. It’s been taken down now. I would dearly love to know how that happened. Try this piece now. I’m rather more confident it will last.)
All right, Obamapologists, let’s have it. How is this anything but The One systematically, intentionally, and repeatedly lying to the American people since 2010? What’s the hot, focus group-tested spin? Don’t disappoint me, fawning sycophants. Explain to me how Barack Obama is a pillar of integrity, only interested in helping the American people, whose marvelous intentions have been thwarted yet again by those bad old Republicans.
Is this just “well, that’s politics”? Oh, everyone knows politicians lie. At least he’s not Bush. Is that it?
Or the story itself must be a lie! That’s it! It’s all of those knuckle-dragging right-wingers NBC News is so well-known for, fabricating this out of whole cloth to take our president down. Shame on them. They should probably be tried for treason.
Millions are losing their coverage. Barack Obama knew they would. Since 2010, Barack Obama has known it was a lie every time he’s claimed otherwise.
I’ve said it before: an 18-pound sledge to the face would be “change you can believe in” too, wouldn’t it?
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He’s known it was a lie since about 1988. All part of the plan to drive out our current system in favor of single payer.
Sure, you and I know that, but we’re mouth-breathing right-wingers from flyover country. This is something Obama’s lockstep worshippers have to swallow. Maybe it’s foul enough to turn some of them.
Well, well. Seems those subsidies may not really be available…
If computer glitches are not enough of a problem, President Obama’s healthcare law also has a legal glitch that critics say could cause it to unravel in more than half the nation.
The Affordable Care Act proposes to make health insurance affordable to millions of low-income Americans by offering them tax credits to help cover the cost. To receive the credit, the law twice says they must buy insurance “through an exchange established by the state.”
But 36 states have decided against opening exchanges for now. Although the law permits the federal government to open exchanges instead, it does not say tax credits may be given to those who buy insurance through a federally run exchange.
Apparently no one noticed this …
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77922629/?related=true
Oh, that’s no obstacle at all. The One will simply change the law by executive fiat. Haven’t you been paying attention?
Click here for the Google-cached version of the story NBC News took down.
Here’s a great analysis on the NBC edit:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/344565.php
Speaking of executive fiat, Obama could turn this around now. It’s how HHS has written the regs that severely limit what plans can be grandfathered. All he has to do is make a phone call to Sebelius for them to allow more grandfathering, and millions won’t lose their insurance. But we know that won’t happen. He’s happy when people suffer (see: shutdown strategies).
I just wonder how he’s going to cook the unemployment numbers over the next year to hide the economic decline.
President Charlie X.
“The boy belongs with his own kind.”
I feel compelled to mention that Terri has made a Star Trek reference, not anything nefarious.