Courtesy of Occupy Democrats:
“We’re saving money for families and businesses. And we’re saving lives” he opens, then goes on to extoll the economic and public benefits. He focused on the twelve million jobs created in the last sixteen months, the reduction of our deficit by two-thirds due to the slowing rate of healthcare cost increases, and the unprecedented fact that over 25 million Americans have gained access to affordable healthcare since the law was enacted.
He continued, using history, facts, and reality to take apart every Republican talking point over the last six years, and ended it by roasting his detractors with a sharp quip, drawing a chorus of laughs from the crowd: “We’ve been promised a lot of things over the past five years that didn’t turn out to be the case- death panels, doom, and a serious alternative from the Republicans in Congress.”
Nicely done.
Hey the President deserves to take a victory lap.
But the sad part is that despite its obvious success, many Americans still have a negative view of the law, and there is a case pending before the Supreme Court that may further complicate its ability to provide on its promise.
However if history is any indication, the Affordable Care Act will survive, and ultimately President Obama will be able to run many, many victory laps to celebrate his accomplishment.
In the unlikely event that chuckleheads like The Screechy Wretch(tm) were right about Obamacare DEATH PANELS, the good news is that presidential hopeful Sen. Theodore "Beaver" Cruz may be signing up for the potentially homicidal insurance program he himself hopes to deny everyone else as soon as he's inaugurated in January 2017..
ReplyDeleteAfter the "OK Corral Meets Roller Derby," pee puddle meltdown, they can see Cruz as prez and Screechy as his chief of staff. This will n-e-v-e-r happen. hahahahaha
DeleteIt has to survive. What I don't understand about all these GOP idiots like Cruz - where is their thinking that it is charitable and just to repeal ACA and harm 16 million people who have signed up for it? Is this what their "god" has taught them? I want Cruz and the rest of them to go to a Children's Hospital and tell those parents and children that they are going to do away with their health insurance/Obamacare. Tell those parents they are shit out of luck, sorry, your kids gonna die because Cruz doesn't like ACA. He and his GOP cohorts are too chicken shit to do so. And the same goes for the Supreme Court justices should they rule against the ACA because of five stupid words.
ReplyDelete"I want Cruz ..to go to a Children's Hospital and tell those parents ...they are going to do away with their ...Obamacare."
DeleteYou clearly have not been listening closely to Canada's most popular candidate for the US presidency since Bob and Doug McKenzie's unsuccessful bid in 1980, eh. Do not misunderestimate this guy. What you describe as cruel, life threatening and unlikely is EXACTLY what Unctuous Ted will do, if elected.
Take off, hoser!. Good day, eh!
And as his reward, he finds out his niece who plays college basketball for Princeton, was threatened with death just because she's related. What t g e he'll is wrong with some people in this country.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/03/24/princeton-maryland-president-obama-leslie-robinson-threat
Saving money? That's the biggest load of BS there is. I don't know anyone who's Insurance bill has gone down or even stayed the same since this mess started. It's been going up since they started talking about it and is now going up in leaps and bounds. This isn't about saving anyone money, it's about squeezing blood out of a rock.
ReplyDeleteCitations, please.
DeleteMy insurance costs dropped dramatically. As did the costs for millions of others.
What's your situation? Are there more than one of you?
My insurance went down.
DeleteYour tin foil hat picking up signals today, is it 7:42 AM?
DeleteYou have not the slightest idea what you are talking about.
DeleteAnd please don't talk as though premiums only started going up by leaps and bounds after ACA/Obamacare was passed. That is just such utter and complete bullshit.
Well, my insurance costs went up, but that's because I COULDN'T GET INSURANCE BEFORE. Pre-existing condition + cost on the open market + self employed made it impossible.
DeleteSo yes, I now pay a lot more. But I do now have insurance. So, yes, the ACA is working. Its not perfect, but it works.
Nah, the biggest load of BS is your post, dullard. Mine went down drastically. Self employed, pre-existing conditions, etc. I'm paying less for much better coverage. Eff off.
DeleteWow, I hope you aren't talking to me. I support Obamacare/ACA completely. My point was that I didn't have insurance before because I couldn't get coverage because of a pre-existing condition. So, now I have coverage that I'm paying for (with help of partial subsidies), and yes, I'm paying more for insurance, because something is more than nothing.
DeleteAlso, to be fair to the original poster, SOME STATES (red ones) that didn't set up exchanges HAVE seen their insurance rates go up dramatically, due to lack of competition & general asshattery from the Republicans. It is not the fault of the ACA.
Insurance is a difficult, detail-oriented subject that differs drastically from state to state. Single payer /public option cannot come soon enough.
Well, you don't know me then. In fact, you probably don't know much of anything, since you spell "whose" as "who's".
DeleteSo what's wrong? Couldn't figure out the ACA site?
Recent Supreme Court decisions seem scary: Scalia and Thomas dissenting together in several cases, as I'm sure they'll find a justification to do with the ACA.
ReplyDeleteThey'll say that politics shouldn't affect an interpretation of the Constitution and the written law.
Kennedy's the swing vote, and I think he's compassionate enough to side with the people whose health insurance would be removed if the law is repealed.
After five years and 16 million people, it's hard to imagine that they'd destroy the ACA and send the country and all those people into a dark hold of uncertainty, fear, and endless bureaucracy. What's done can't be undone without the disruption of many, many lives.
Scalia and Thomas -- what do they care? But I think John Roberts won't want his legacy to be the end of the ACA, which it would be, and he'll find a way to justify an opinion, no matter how much dislikes the man in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and who he couldn't even swear into office without messing it up --
Freudian disconnect!
Thu Mar 26, 2015 at 07:33 AM PDT
ReplyDeleteGOP congresswoman gets surprise on Facebook after asking constituents for Obamacare horror stories
by Jen HaydenFollow @ Daily KOS
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/26/1373436/-Republican-Congresswoman-gets-surprise-on-Facebook-after-asking-constituents-for-ACA-horror-stories
Good one.
DeleteThanks for sharing that link.
It never ceases to amaze me the level of vindictiveness and petty politics the Republicans have sunk to in regard to Americans' health care options.
ReplyDeletehealth care.
Ouch. That's gotta hurt.
ReplyDeleteToo bad he couldn't end with
"How do you like *your* healthcare, Mr. Cruz?"
Personally I am a little worried about the Supreme Court decision, if they are going require states to set up their own market place, I will probable lose my subsidy because Gov Ricky Synder (MI) is a Republican and could careless about the middle class.
ReplyDeleteWe have a billion dollar surplus and they want to raise the sales tax to fix our roads and bridges. He ran on how wonder he was because of the surplus, but where is the money now?
Bravo, President Obama, Bravo!!!!!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think Cruz's wife deliberately took a temporary leave of absence from her job so that they could have an excuse to get on the federal exchange. That way Cruz can avoid questions about being on his wife's Cadillac plan.
ReplyDeleteThere was a "scandal" not long ago, where someone pushing FOR "Obamacare" said something about Americans being too freaking stupid to understand it.
ReplyDeleteMan, what a shitstorm that kicked up, among the freaking stupid Americans, huh?
Now, some time later, a poll is run, only to find out that MILLIONS of dummies still think there is a government run insurance company called Obamacare, Inc., which they have to buy a policy from, or get sent to jail.
Thanks, Fox News, for making all the terrible things others say about Americans being morons, absolutely true.