Posted on 11/15/2013 2:57:19 AM PST by markomalley
**Written by Doug Powers
On Thursday, President Obama said he wanted insurance companies for one more year to keep offering policies that have been banned by the Obamacare law. A Republican had the audacity to put it down on paper all nice and legal like, and now Obama is threatening to veto it.
From The Hill:
The White House issued a formal veto threat Thursday night of a bill offered by House Republicans that would allow insurance companies to continue offering health plans that existed before the beginning of the new year.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), is coming up for a vote on Friday.
In a statement from the Office of Management and Budget, the administration argues the law is intended to “sabotage” ObamaCare.
This mess is turning into a less dignified version of a Three Stooges short.
The Upton proposal would allow insurers to continue to sell cheaper plans, and that’s supposed sticking point:
Democrats have worried that if insurers were allowed to offer the cheaper, lower-quality plans to new customers, the young, healthy individuals central to the success of the ObamaCare exchanges would choose the less expensive options, dooming the reform effort.
These are the policies that the Obama administration has deemed “junk” that they say nobody wants, but yet they’re worried there will be demand for them again. Go figure.
Ironically, the “health care reform effort” relies on limiting “choice,” which is a responsibility that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid think Americans are only smart enough to be trusted with when it comes to reproduction, but far too stupid to handle when it comes to picking a friggin’ insurance policy.
Point for pondering:
The Left is going ape over this situation:
Letter: Mob rants can’t defeat health-care act
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/letters/x429850863/Letter-Mob-rants-cant-defeat-health-care-act
Obamacare is a disaster. Putting it off for a year does not cure anything. It needs to be tossed in its entirety, and Obama needs to be tossed with it.
Throw them both out and put crazy Joe in charge.
She is a delusional person. With a very low IQ.
Shall we dance?
The GOP must let this wholly Democrat designed (and passed into law) disaster unfold into the horror it always was going to be - that the GOP [Cruz and Co] has been warning it would be; the Democrats own it, lock, stock and barrel. If the GOP tries to "fix" it, they will be granting that the Democrats had "good intentions."
These are the kind of tards that permeate the NE!
Completely ignorant and constantly tuned to NPR.
It is utter insanity, Mary Jane actually believes that SHE is the voice of reason.
Delusional.
See Eric Ericcson at Red State.. the Republicans are walking into a trap. Fred Upton is a MO-ron.
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That's the beginning massage (oh it's too hard - let us help fix that) toward making this mess (Obamacare) transform into a Universal (GOVERNMENT) single payer system.
Wrong premise.
What he wants to do is: 1) Rule by Executive order, 2) Delegitimize and then crush the GOP.
Signing Upton's (stupid) bill does neither, in fact, it undermines his goals.
Don't shoot! Let 'em BURN!
Make him veto it and then watch the rats leave a burning and sinking boat that is taking on water at an alarming rate... just do it and keep doing it!
obama doesn’t have a clue what’s in this monstrosity and had even less of a clue when he signed it.
Not one single person who voted for it read it or wants it.
Not one single aide who as a collective wrote the damn thing wants it.
No one in the unions who backed it to the hilt wants it.
99.9% of doctors don’t want it.
Hospitals don’t want it.
Universities don’t want it.
kathleen, the abortion queen, doesn’t want it.
What in the world does it take to pound this into slobama’s thick head? A sledgehammer?
Agreed. Republicans should be introducing bill after bill to repeal Obamacare and force the Dems to shoot it down. Who knows, as we get closer to the election and the bleeding gets more serious, such a bill could even pass. This is the moment to strike, a moment which may never come again.
“Traitorobama” and “Traitorobamacare” are the applicable words that apply to these respective abortions.
Yes please.
Clown Prince nobama appears confused. Ridicule this fool clown so that he becomes extremely confused.
That woman’s letter is incredible. She obviously believes that government can do no wrong, that no government act is unconstitutional OR unconscionable, and that anyone who disagrees with socialist hegemony is a racist.
Useful idiots abound.
——These mob scenes have no place in intelligent discourse——
There is no intelligent discourse. That time has long past. The time now is for the people to gather and drag the unhearing miscreants from their ivory towers.
To whine for discourse is loser petulance
The leftist fools have no self control and they vote for a mother government which has none, in their worship, and will get the ax like abortion.
Obama is playing a different game of divide people and people and the government. this whole thing is a big terrorist subversion of the country.
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