Posted on 11/06/2013 7:52:52 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said it’s OK if people are losing “crappy, junk policies” because of Obamacare and pitched for a government-run option in the wake of the problematic start for the exchange.
“When we were debating this way back when and trying to figure out how to do all this, a lot of us on the liberal side said, “Well, OK, we’ll give something to the states. We`ll let the states set up their own exchanges.” Many conservatives wanted to do that. So, we made that agreement. We thought that would be a good idea. So we put it out there. And lo and behold, all these Republican governors who get elected in 2010 and republican legislatures and they dumped it all on the federal government,” Harkin said last night on MSNBC.
“We never expected that. Had we known that from the beginning, the architecture of setting up the exchanges would have been a lot different. But then they dumped in our last. If you look — I’m glad you went to Kentucky because Kentucky, Washington, Colorado, Rhode Island, even the District of Columbia where they set up state exchanges, they’re working just fine.”
The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee said the website failures are just “a mechanical problem.”
“There’s nothing wrong with the Affordable Care Act, there’s nothing wrong with ObamaCare, we have a problem, yes, and I’m upset about it just as everyone else is, but it’s being fixed. It’s a mechanical problem and it’ll be fixed by the end of this month,” Harkin said.
The only problem, he said, is that Obamacare doesn’t go far enough.
“We need a public option out there. We needed a public option in this program. I fought hard for it. But we didn’t get it. And probably from the very beginning, we should set it up as a federal architecture, as a natural architecture, set it up that way,” the senator said, adding that states now just “want to dump it on the federal government.”
Harkin claimed “the farmers and the small businesses in Iowa are going to have the kind of health care coverage that they’ve never been able to get or afford in the past.”
“Yes, they might have been able to afford to get some policy but it didn’t cover anything. And there was a lot of policies out there that were quite frankly crappy, junk policies. Well now, no more of those junk policies. People will have good, solid policies.”
Harkin even predicted “you’re going to see a lot more entrepreneurs starting small businesses and getting into business because now they’ll have health care and health care coverage for their workers which they couldn’t have before.”
Once a dung heap, always a dung heap.
In 12 short months, the citizenry will be thanking the Democrats for saving them from horrible insurance policies and replacing them with obamacare. The media convinced the electorate to re-elect an absolute pile of sh#t. Convincing them of the virtues of the ACA will be child's play in comparison. Mark my words. A country so overwhelmingly this stupid is doomed.
Great Tom, Now a lot of people will have to pick between truly affordable health care and a mortgage payment.
Liberal asshat.
Liberals just love power..and what better way to have total and complete power then to have the ability to decide who lives and who dies..its the ultimate power trip. They really dont care how bad it looks for them politically or how many policies get canceled, the end justifies the means and for them that means single payer health care..that would be the final nail in America’s coffin
Yes, the public is too stupid to buy the proper insurance o cover mental illness, drunkenness, promiscuity, gender switches, birth control, and blah blah, stuff that the majority do not need.
“Substandard” apparently means “Not subsidizing the lifestyles of others”
“Well, gee whiz! These last forty years I had no idea I was getting ripped off by those dirty dog insurance companies.” - Joe American
I checked twice for a sarcasm tag.
what a coward
During the Soviet Revelution the people were liberated from their property and told it was for their own good too.
the Soviet Revolution
just read the headline and thought Harkin announched his retirement...
But he doesn’t want a damn thing to do with it personally. Oh, how I hope I live to see the day when piano wire is in short supply.
Harkin is insane!!!!
probably from the very beginning, we should set it up as a federal architecture, as a natural architecture, set it up that way,” the senator said, adding that states now just “want to dump it on the federal government.”
Sooo, federal architecture is NATURAL ?
And now he’s complaining about the states wanting the
feds to take responsibility for their own screw up?
commies the lot of them
But the problem is here that that Obama is selling you a Yugo, but at the cost of a Beamer, and saying that because you are paying more it must be a Beamer.
Now, if we could just get rid of the “crap, junk” politicians.
Obamacare is a crappy junk policy.
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