"in only a few more months"...it will be 2o14 and there will be a whole lot of democrats ana d fair sized bunch of republicans looking for a JOB.
Posted on 11/17/2013 6:57:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
With an eye on the 2014 midterm elections, a growing number of Democrats are voicing concerns about the insurance cancellations and website problems that have plagued the debut of the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges - a phenomenon highlighted Friday when 39 House Democrats broke ranks to support a GOP-authored bill that the White House said would undermine a "central premise" of the healthcare law.
It was a remarkable show of disunity from Democrats, who have splintered every which way in reaction to the Obamacare's rocky debut. And it raises an uncomfortable question for congressional Democrats who voted overwhelmingly in 2010 to approve the Affordable Care Act without any Republicans in tow: Will they have the political fortitude to stick to their guns and fend off changes to the law, or will a vulnerable caucus begin to accept alterations to a bill they've steadfastly safeguarded for years?
Despite the anxiety among her troops, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives insisted Sunday she isn't fretting about the law's future.
"I don't think it's in trouble," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters. "I think we just have to remain calm, get through the website getting fixed, clarify some misrepresentations about it."
"It's the law of the land," she added. "It's an important health, stability issue, security issue for the American people, and I believe that in a matter of months many more people will see that."
She dismissed the 39 Democratic votes for the GOP's proposal to prevent insurance cancellations by extending 2013 plans through 2014 as a "political" maneuver, noting that a similar number of Democrats joined Republicans on dozens of earlier votes to repeal or alter the law....
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My fear is that we are in more serious jeopardy than the ACA.
That's the eternal question for those that live with their head up their ass.
And she might have further added: "And the president has assured the insurance companies that they do not need to follow the law. So it's all good."
Its gonna get worse and I’m betting there are a lot of democrats worrying about Ted Cruz’s newest warnings.
Not YOU!!
Liberals....that is
“It’s the law of the land.”
That they would approach this fiasco in that manner sends chills up my spine. Tyranny is here.
Have no fear- the GOPe will rally to the aid of the affordable care act, and help Obama save it- it’s for the children, you know....Undoubtedly there will be a blue ribbon, gang of 20+/- saviors including the ubiquitous McCain, graham, snowe, and other assorted co-conspirators who are dedicated to the destruction of the country who will assist bammy in his war on America.
Insurance companies want ACA because they love a gov mandated that forces private citizens to buy their products. When Obama dropped his single payer approach, the entire healthcare industry backed his passage of ACA. Many freepers are still in denial that healthcare industry sides with ACA. Many argue that ACA is one step toward single payer and why should healthcare industry support it. Corporate America does not operate long term. If ACA is a ten year transition to single payer, corporate America will try to milk all the profits in the 10 year period and will figure out what to do when ACA dies and single payer takes over.
There is a simple common sense experiment. If you are an insurance agent which policy would you like to sell to make commissions. A strip down individual policy that runs a person 300 USD a month (commission 3 percent) or a ACA mandated policy of 600 USD a month (commission 3 percent). The consumer may find the strip down policy acceptable but the agent will find the ACA more desirable for his commission. GOP offer a permanent fix for individual policies but the health insurance industry will work behind the scene to kill it. The health insurance industry is very close to making tons of money under ACA. If ACA runs short on money, guarantee the libs and pro business GOP will band together and have gov provide a bailout for the losses till the gov can no longer afford to do it then ration of care and increase in premiums. No matter how it is paid, the insurance industry will get their cut. The whole situation is tragic for middle class America and even the libs who thought the reform was for the people and now finding out that the reform was to line the pockets of insurance companies. Slowly all Americans will learn that big business and big gov is the enemy of America.
Or a setup for the game saving Hail Mary by the adroit Lord Obama...
Yep, it's going to take a major diversion to get this story pushed aside.
>> that forces private citizens to buy their products.
or pay a lot less not to.
My fear is that we are in more serious jeopardy than the ACA.
Your fears are well founded. Nothing is going to happen to the ACA but something will defiantly happen to us. Amnesty is still the focus of the Republican estableshment they really are not bothered by socialized health care because their corporatist friends aren’t bothered.
Good analysis...another oft overlooked point is that big business in general loves this too. Sure they have to offer healthcare, but they can offer a small monetary amount for the employee to purchase their own healthcare. Of course the healthcare the employee gets is going to be substandard then what they could have had and it will cost them more for a comparable plan and the deductible will be high. So again the middle class will get screwed.
Obama couldn't have planned this any better...the middle class is going to be gone.
It's the 'law of the land' that can be flexed and twisted, modified and manipulated, and upheld but broken by one individual if it needs to be to fit his political agend!!! DOUBLEPLUSGOOD...
The ACA, blundered foreign policy, poor economic strategery, and a bunch more at some point must move from rhetoric, wordsmithing, and posturing, into actionable deeds. The longer the timeline on the words into the deeds the harder it becomes to survive. The media has given him his own rope in the form of time without question. Yards and yards of it.
The central premise of ACA is that young healthy people will sign up in sufficient numbers for expensive policies that they do not want and do not need in order to create a deep enough risk pool to support the elderly, preexisting conditions, and subsidized poor — and that is simply not going to happen.
Look at who we are talking about here. This is the “gimme mine” generation. They do not pay for things they don’t get, their ethos is to get without paying. Even if it was the slickest website in the universe and each policy came with a free keg of beer delivered to their pad on the same day they signed up, they’d still avoid signing up. Or, if they signed up, they wouldn’t pay.
The whole thing is utterly unworkable, and they know it. It always has been.
Yeah...that is really unlikely.
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