Posted on 10/04/2014 8:14:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’m beginning to think that Obama doesn’t actually have any speech writers or talking-point authors… He’s just recycling the set of talking points he was handed in the first four years of his tenure. During a recent Q&A session at a campaign event in Princeton Indiana, the President trotted out the tried-and-failed talking points of 2012 to defend his signature healthcare law. According to the Free Beacon:
“We are seeing almost a double-digit increase in health-care costs every year,” General Manager Mihir Paranjape said. “Do you think that trend is going to go down, and what can we do to control that trend?”
Obamacare might be toxic for some swing-state Liberals, but I’m sure it warmed the cockles of Obama’s heart to hear someone ask the government for help with a government-created problem. And so began roughly four minutes of our Campaigner-in-Chief stumbling through the English language:
“That’s really interesting, you’re gonna have to talk to Henry,” Obama said, referring to the company’s CEO, Henry Jackson. “The question is whether you guys are shopping effectively enough.”
Oh, really? So, I guess it’s my fault I’m paying twice as much as I used to for half the overall coverage? You don’t think it could have a teensy-tiny bit to do with the more than 11,000 pages of Obamacare regulations that have been put into effect? Because that would probably be my first thought. Of course our snake oil healthcare salesman-in-chief wasn’t quite done:
“Over the course of the last four years, premiums have gone up at the slowest rate in the last 50 years.”
This utterance is almost a carbon copy (that means “exact” copy for anyone who is unfamiliar with the world before iPads) of something Obama said back in 2012. It wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true today. Premiums have not slowed down. In fact, they’re climbing much faster than normal.
According to a survey of health insurers across the nation earlier this year, premiums are climbing faster now than they have in the last several decades. The national average is somewhere between 11 and 12 percent, with some portions of the nation seeing 100 percent year-over-year increases in premium costs. And, unfortunately, this calculation doesn’t even take into account the rising deductibles and declining services.
Where Obama might have gotten a little “confused” (I’m feeling generous right now), is that overall healthcare spending has been growing at a slower rate… But let’s not hold a parade for Obamacare just yet. Spending growth was actually slowing before Obama & Company decided to toy with the industry. The recession also helped drive down overall growth, with more people allocating their increasingly devalued dollars on slightly more imminent needs – such as rent and debt services. But don’t worry… For the last few quarters growth in the industry has been making a comeback as deductibles and out-of-pocket costs increase. (If you don’t think this sounds like good news, you’re pretty much right.)
Another problem that Obama has run into, is that many of these statistics vary greatly from one corner of the nation to another. Even Obama acknowledged that healthcare costs are greatly dependent on geography, because companies are often barred from offering certain services across state lines. (Maybe now would be an appropriate time to point out that putting an end to such practices – and therefore allowing interstate insurance purchases – happened to be one of the Republican ideas that was snubbed by Democrats during the Obamacare creation process. Go figure.)
In what I can only assume was an effort to drive the fact-checkers to a different portion of his remarks, Obama also claimed that Healthcare.gov is now in “pretty good shape”. Which, really, isn’t saying much if he’s speaking relatively. I mean heck, for a website that still doesn’t have any security protocols, I guess it’s doing just fine at sucking up taxpayer’s money.
Then, out of no-where, he managed to top himself:
“The Affordable Care Act, by the way, is also known as ‘Obamacare,’” Obama said. “For a while, everybody was sort of using that as kind of an insult. I’m feeling pretty good about it being called ‘Obamacare.’ I suspect that about 5 years from now, when everybody agrees that it’s working, then they won’t call it ‘Obamacare’ anymore … that’s okay.”
Sorry, Obama… But you’re going to be stuck with this one. When people are emptying their pockets to pay for some federally mandated health insurance in an archaic DMV style system, I imagine your name will still be on their lips.
"Let them eat Ebola"
I’ll bet Pelosi is right. ObamaCare is “wildly popular”. People are going out of their minds because of it.
How does someone who spends most of his time golfing, fund raising, partying, or avoiding intelligence briefings know if ANYTHING is working?
And to think we have two+ more years of this idiot!!!
And the economy and unemployment numbers are fine, you can keep your doctor and your health plan, the world is at peace, the border is secure, ebola is not a national threat, the middle east is calm, the IRS is not suppressing political activity...how much of this garbage is the public willing to swallow? How many of these lies will the MSM support without question?
He’s right . . . it is working . . . as they intended . . . as intended to be a total flop, thereby paving the way for single payer.
His streamlined medical records are working swimmingly in Dallas right now.
Exactly, but the blame, besides those idiots who voted for that arrogant pos belongs to those who voted either for a third party candidate or stayed home on November 6, 2012
bttt
My choice is to give up eating and driving or find a new plan with less coverage.
Hmmmm...let me think about it...
“That’s really interesting, you’re gonna have to talk to Henry,” Obama said, referring to the company’s CEO, Henry Jackson. “The question is whether you guys are shopping effectively enough.”
I wish he was an idiot. He’s not. He is pathological liar whose goal is to destroy and fundamentally transform the United States of America.
He buys favor with his worshipers from these stupid question and answer sessions.
My brother refuses to believe I can no longer afford insurance. His devotion to leftists like obama trumps family.
Also,we are just Too Stupid to realize that the”meatloaf”on our dinner plate(if we’re lucky)is Really Filet Mignon?????
Once again, His subjects are failing His Majesty.
Obola does, he constantly commands them to provide material on how great he is and how you're too stupid to know how great he and his programs have been for the country.
LOL - Obama family values.
President 2.0 Jarrett tells him. Its terrible to think that he actually believes what he is saying. However, so does Beckel on "The Five". There is a vast cadre of Marxist/Socialist/Gimmedats out there. They are washed in drugs, liquor and propaganda. It took at least three generations to get them here. It will take even longer to get them out.
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