Posted on 02/28/2011 12:10:34 PM PST by mdittmar
Sounds to me like a way for the president to blackmail our States.
The right thing to do would be to scrap this monstrosity, but no....everyone wants to “compromise.”
BTW, Scott Brown was a bad idea. Hope he is a one-term senator.
It is the quick way to get around the judges rulings in Florida and Virginia on the mandate issue. If the states or congress let this happen. Then we have Obamacare by default
Hey Obammy- Wasn’t this thing declared unconstitutional?
....why did all the news media, including FOX break coverage when questioning began????.....I wanted to see if anyone had the guts to question his statements that Obamacare will save a trillion dollars over 10years
He was better than Martha Coakley, but by an amount which seems to be diminishing rapidly from the original estimate.
Without Scott Brown, we would have had a single-payer (government lead) system.
Scott Brown was elected to make sure that that didn’t happen.
He did his job. Now he needs to leave.
I have no personal knowledge on this event, but many times they all use the same feed. Fox may not have broken coverage, it may have been broken before they picked it up.
He won’t even get one term. He’ll be gone in 2012. I can’t stand the guy.
Get rid of the bill now. If the Republicans wimp out; they will go home.
“Without Scott Brown, we would have had a single-payer (government lead) system.”
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Actually, this sounds like it advances single-payer health care. Whatever....it’s some effort at compromise, and I don’t want compromise. I voted Republican so we could not compromise, but rather, bring back conservativism.
Several Lefty states (most notably Vermont) are itching to implement single payer. Obama is apparently willing to gamble that this will prove what a wonderful idea it is (everyone will be covered, healthcare costs will go down, businesses will start moving to Vermont and hiring because they’ll be free of employee healthcare costs, etc.)
Personally I think it would be a huge failure and would immunize the American public from wanting to mess with healthcare again for at least a generation.
This in a nutshell is Obama’s strategy for the next two years.
It also is something that may require Mitt to come up with another rationale for Romneycare.
Classical trickery presupposing the “made up fact”.
Sir , can you tell me when you stopped beating your wife?
Obama may exempt some states from certain requirements of Obamacare, but he’s not going to exempt them from the taxes associated with it. His exemptions are probably going to force ‘equal protection’ lawsuits at some point as well. This whole thing is going to be one big clusterfark that will take many years to undo.
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