Posted on 11/15/2013 2:50:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama defiantly pledged to preserve his healthcare law, trumpeting the Affordable Care Act in Ohio on Thursday, even as Democrats pursue a legislative fix for his signature domestic achievement.
Obama traveled to an ArcelorMittal steel plant in Cleveland for an event that was supposed to focus on economic gains made by the administration. However, the president was forced to confront the botched rollout of Obamacare, setbacks that have put Democrats on the defensive and entirely consumed Washington.
“I'm going to see this through,” Obama said of the healthcare law.
“We are not going to gut this law; we will fix what needs to be fixed,” he added.
......The insurance industry largely ripped the proposal, saying it would undo much of the work they have done to prepare to implement the sweeping law.
Democratic lawmakers are still pursuing legislative changes, saying the administration’s fix doesn’t go far enough to help the millions of Americans receiving cancellation notices.
Obama at the Ohio event was noticeably less apologetic than during a White House press conference Thursday morning, in which he conceded the administration had “fumbled” the Obamacare rollout.
“We always knew this was going to be hard,” the president told the Cleveland crowd. “There’s a reason the folks who tried to do this for 100 years hadn’t done it.”
The president also took a swipe at the same insurance companies he is now asking to renew cancelled coverage plans.
Under Obamacare, the president said insurance companies would no longer “jack up your premium so you can’t afford it” just “because you had some sort of preexisting condition.”
The president travels to Philadelphia later Thursday for a Democratic fundraiser."
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“There’s a reason the folks who tried to do this for 100 years hadn’t done it.”
I love it when Obama “plays American”; he is as American as bean pies and halal goat.
Babara Tuchman (Guns of August) called this ‘woodenheadness’, it is the inability to adjust to reality.
“I like my healthcare law, so I’m going to keep me healthcare law.”
LOL!
Anyway, who in the heck are these “folks” who have been trying to impose nationalized health care for 100 years?
Yeah, I know.
Mr. niteowl77
Thanks.
I’d imagine the same people that bombed Haymarket Square in the 1920s...
Get rid of Obamacare and it’s owner, Obama.
The Fuhrer has spoken. “I will preserve my legacy at all costs (even if it’s a bad one)”. Idiot.
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."
He jus so folksy....
I don’t want to gut it, just repeal it...
While we're at it, get rid of the board of directors as well, the DemocRATS!
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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.
Ahhh, yes...
Ohio Ping
Obama traveled to an ArcelorMittal steel plant in Cleveland for an event that was supposed to focus on economic gains made by the administration. However, the president was forced to confront the botched rollout of Obamacare, setbacks that have put Democrats on the defensive and entirely consumed Washington.
“I’m going to see this through,” Obama said of the healthcare law.
“We are not going to gut this law; we will fix what needs to be fixed,” he added.
......The insurance industry largely ripped the proposal, saying it would undo much of the work they have done to prepare to implement the sweeping law.
100 years, huh? Could he be referring to Wilson?
No wonder why he never called Beck on the red phone.
I agree, though it seems callous to those who voted against Obama who are being screwed by this. As for those that voted for him, I won’t say what I wish upon them.
You will not have to fagot... your plan’s guts are being eaten by the cancer of failed concepts and ideologies... now go blow reggie... ya muslim.
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