Gov. Deval Patrick: ‘The ACA is not a website, it’s a value statement’

msnbc.com ^ | October 29, 2013 | Collier Meyerson

[Tailgunner Joe]

“The thing to remember is that the ACA is not a website, it’s a value statement. It’s about whether we believe health is a public good.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m surprised he didn’t go all the way and say healthcare is a right.

[snarkytart]

wtf does he mean?

[GeronL]

He means their intentions were good.

lol

[GeronL]

good intentions trump actual results

[BenLurkin]

"It’s about whether we believe health Government Dominance is a public good.”

[Mastador1]

wtf does he mean?

I don’t know, but I once heard that if you polish a turd long enough it will turn shiny. I think what he is doing is trying to polish the ACA and hope he can make it shiny. Sadly a shiny turd is still just a turd.

[Ray76]

Putting a gun to a person’s head and demanding they participate in your plan is an offense of the highest magnitude.

A healthy public results from a free public freely trading goods and services without coercion or combine. That is America’s values.

[KarlInOhio]

> It’s about whether we believe health is a public good.

wtf does he mean?

He means that health care is something to be rationed, controlled and limited by the government to those who can serve the state's purpose. And one of those purposes is getting voters who will give the government even more power.

[Billthedrill]

What he means is that he considers healthcare to be not a public good, but literally public property, and that it is the function of the state to distribute it, and that only the state has the right to do so. That the free market is irrelevant, and that the state may impose its will, or more properly the will of the Party in power, on anyone. And that "anyone" means most specifically that citizens are the property of the state as well.

These are totalitarians, they really are.

[Argus]

People actually vote for these imbeciles.

[TigersEye]

And the value it states is "politicians are gods and the plebes are stupid."

FUDV

[John Valentine]

The ACA has nothing whatsoever to do with “health”. It’s all about constraining economic choice, restriction options and wasting money.

Health has nothing to do with it.

[RobbyS]

This guy is ominous. Obama, him, and the actor from New Jersey, birds of a feather. Or rather, snakes in the grass.

[RobbyS]

Amen. They slither and they gleem, and they are not like us.

[Vince Ferrer]

wtf does he mean?

What matters is our good intentions, not our results.

[LeoWindhorse]

the ACA is a lie

[FlingWingFlyer]

That’s like saying, Patrick is not a governor, he’s an idiot politician. Sorry Skippy, ObamaCare IS a website. A broken one at that.

[Republican Wildcat]

So what are those values? Causing millions to lose their health insurance plans and replacing them with different plans they can’t afford the premiums for with massively higher deductibles? Huge cutbacks in available medical services due to the law that will make it more difficult to get healthcare even if the insurance disaster had worked out perfectly? Etc.?

[muir_redwoods]

I believe Porsches and Cadillacs and Lamborginis are a public good. Where’s the one you bought me, Deval?