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ObamaCare author: Health law is 'really complicated'
The Hill ^ | December 3, 2014 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 12/03/2014 6:32:50 AM PST by C19fan

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To: goldstategop

Not only do they own it, they shoved it down our throats.


21 posted on 12/03/2014 7:06:13 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: C19fan

It didn’t need to be.

When you see, with any policy, that the same STATED goals could have been achieved without the negative consequences,

conclude that the negative consequences were the real goals all along.


22 posted on 12/03/2014 7:07:17 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Iron Munro

Pretty good summary! I agree


23 posted on 12/03/2014 7:08:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Don Corleone
They want this to come right out of your paycheck....just like Medicare.

Of course, it's the same story....only working people pay.

I'm 71. Worked all my life. They take $105 right out of my SS check every month and I have to buy a supplement, too. That's more than I spend on food.

24 posted on 12/03/2014 7:12:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: C19fan
Really complicated? Pfftt! It's so simple even the stupidest welfare parasite can understand it.If you like your plan you *cannot* keep it. If you like your doctor you *cannot* keep him/her.And it's *costing* families an extra $2,500 a year,not *saving* them $2,500.

Senator Gillibrand (Rat-NY) admitted to Martha Radditz about a year ago that the Rat Party caucus *knew* that those promises were lies as they were passing the bill.

And Barney Fa...sorry,Frank...has admitted the very same thing.

Complicated? BARBARA STREISAND!

25 posted on 12/03/2014 7:16:29 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788

"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788

Oh, to have the current generations as well informed as the Founders of America on the nature of tyranny, an awareness of the history of the means by which imperfect people in positions of power in government can mislead "the People" into surrendering their liberty, and of the provisions of their own Constitution!

Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63:

"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788

26 posted on 12/03/2014 7:21:01 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: C19fan

Complicated..more like designed by Rube Goldberg while on LSD. Tell us Tom...did you EVER read that 2,000 page bill before you voted on it?


27 posted on 12/03/2014 7:25:42 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: C19fan

Ya think? The authors probably never read the thing, save for the guy in prison, who most likely did it as a cruel joke. It is piecemeal legislation, some of it done by these staff members, and some done by those staff members, and those staff members passed it around to leftist think tanks, who gave it to the cleaning help for ideas. Then it went to the lawyers.

Meanwhile, the Congressmen who finally past it as law, and the idiot who signed it into law, think they are smarter than our founding fathers who anticipated how dumb these clowns would be when they wrote the Constitution, but the authors of Obamacare aren’t paying attention.


28 posted on 12/03/2014 7:27:33 AM PST by pallis
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To: C19fan

His current statement is complete and utter bull squeeze! Marxists love complex laws that ensure their subjects are in a constant state of confusion. Complexity in legislation gives their unelected branch (HHS) more flexibility to rule with an iron fist!

FU Harkin. Good thing we held our nose and gave McConnel a huge victory. Now we get to hear about how the GOP is trying to fund Obamacare through September next year.


29 posted on 12/03/2014 7:29:23 AM PST by CSM
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To: C19fan

30 posted on 12/03/2014 7:40:08 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: C19fan

Of course... it is deliberately BADLY WRITTEN


31 posted on 12/03/2014 7:40:17 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: C19fan

Hey Tommy - you got Grubered!

YOU are the stupid voter Gruber was talking about.


32 posted on 12/03/2014 7:40:41 AM PST by BigBobber (`)
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To: C19fan

Shumer - We wasted time working on the wrong thing.
Harkin - What we worked on, we did it wrong.

Pretty sums up a democrat congress...


33 posted on 12/03/2014 7:54:27 AM PST by Mudtiger
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To: C19fan

If he thinks they should have gone for single payer, he still hasn’t gotten the message of 2010 and 2014.

In general, people wanted fixes (e.g. pre-existing conditions, clinics so uninsured didn’t clog ER’s), but they never supported a wholesale takeover of the health care/insurance system.

Harkin will never have to face voters again, so maybe he is being brutally honest (probably for the first time in his dungheap life).


34 posted on 12/03/2014 7:54:40 AM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: randita

Lies are always “complicated”. Typical DIM/LIB behavior. Typical.


35 posted on 12/03/2014 8:30:12 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: C19fan

All the laws and regulations for the Unaffordable Care Act should indeed be shredded...and fed to Sen. Tom Harkin.


36 posted on 12/03/2014 8:44:34 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Es Mi Partido, Ahora!)
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To: C19fan

FU creep. This STOLEN VALOR D-Bag is beneath contempt.

GO AWAY already and check your Depends. Something stinks when you are near.


37 posted on 12/03/2014 9:31:56 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: C19fan

Only a genius like Obama can understand it. We are nothing
compared to Dear Leader.


38 posted on 12/03/2014 9:43:58 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: C19fan

I think they thought, rightly so, that they’d pass it and then republicans would work with them to “fix” it.

Neither party thought that the push back would create the TEA party. Once created, we made Obamacare radioactive. No republican can touch it. No democrat in any way vulnerable can survive it (29/60 in the Senate will be gone as of Sat).

They didn’t contemplate the voting public dividing the uni-party on this issue. That’s what they regret.


39 posted on 12/03/2014 10:59:11 AM PST by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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To: C19fan

Stone him!!


40 posted on 12/03/2014 11:01:04 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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