Posted on 10/20/2016 2:37:37 PM PDT by McGruff
President Barack Obama blamed partisanship for the lingering discontent around his signature health care law, the Affordable Care Act, during his latest pitch on the benefits of the law to millennials at Miami Dade College in Florida. But Obama also admitted that there are problems with the law that need to be addressed, including costly premiums and persistent gaps in coverage.
“Part of the problem is a Democratic President named Barack Obama passed the law,” the president said to cheers. “But just because a lot of the Republican criticism has proven to be false doesn’t mean that there aren’t legitimate concerns.”
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MEMORY LANE---As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act:"
QUOTING OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
Repeated over and over by every loyal Democrat---- conning Americans into believing they'd also be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
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LOCK-STEPPING DEMOCRAT PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE.
SEN. HARRY REID (D-Nev.): “In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.8642, 8/3/09)
SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/29/09)
SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-Wash.): “Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it.” (Sen. Murray, Congressional Record, S.6400, 6/10/09)
SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-Mont.): “That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it.” (Sen. Baucus, Congressional Record, S.7676, 9/29/10)
SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-Iowa): “One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like — existing policies — you can keep them. … we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in.” (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)
THEN-REP. TAMMY BALDWIN (D-Wis.): “Under the bill, if you like the insurance you have now, you may keep it and it will improve.” (Rep. Baldwin, Press Release, 3/18/10)
SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-Alaska): “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” (Sen. Begich, Townhall Event, 7/27/09)
SEN. MICHAEL BENNET (D-Colo.): “We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you.” (Sen. Bennet, Press Release, 6/11/09)
SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D-Calif.): “So we Democrats want people to be able to keep the health care they have. And the answer to that is choice of plans. And in the exchange, we’re going to have lots of different plans, and people will be able to keep the health care coverage they need and they want.” (Sen. Boxer, Press Release, 2/8/11)
SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-Ohio): “Our Democrat bill says if you have health insurance and you like it, you can keep it…”(Sen. Brown, Congressional Record, S.12612, 12/7/09)
SEN. BEN CARDIN (D-Md.): “For the people of Maryland, this bill will provide a rational way in which they can maintain their existing coverage…” (Sen. Cardin, Congressional Record, S.13798, 12/23/09)
SEN. BOB CASEY (D-Pa.): “I also believe this Democrat legislation and the bill we are going to send to President Obama this fall will also have secure choices. If you like what you have, you like the plan you have, you can keep it. It is not going to change.” (Sen. Casey, Congressional Record, S.8070, 7/24/09)
SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-N.C.): ‘People who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it’ “We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage.” (“Republicans Vent As Other Compromise Plans Get Aired,” National Journal’s Congress Daily, 6/18/09)
SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-La.): “If you like the insurance that you have, you’ll be able to keep it.” (MSNBC’s Hardball, 12/16/09)
SEN. PAT LEAHY (D-Vt.): “[I]f you like the insurance you now have, keep the insurance you have.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 10/22/09)
SEN. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.): “If you like what you have, you get to keep it” “Menendez is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which is expected to release a bill later this week. He stressed that consumers who are satisfied with their plans won’t have to change. ‘If you like what you have, you get to keep it,’ he said.” (“Health Care Plan Would Help N.J., Menendez Says,” The Record, 6/19/09)
SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D-Oreg.): “[E]nsuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it” “The HELP Committee bill sets forward a historic Democrat plan that will, for the first time in American history, give every American access to affordable health coverage, reduce costs, and increase choice, while ensuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it.” (Sen. Merkley, Press Release, 7/15/09)
SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D-Md.): “It means that if you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it.” (Sen. Mikulski, Press Release, 12/24/09)
SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-W.Va.): “I want people to know, the President’s promise that if you like the coverage you have today you can keep it is a pledge we intend to keep.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Hearing, 9/23/09)
SEN. JACK REED (D-R.I.): “If you like the insurance you have, you can choose to keep it.” (Sen. Reed, Town Hall Event, 6/25/09)
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.): “‘If you have coverage you like, you can keep it,’ says Sen. Sanders.” (“Sick And Wrong,” Rolling Stone, 4/5/10)
SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-N.H.): ‘if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it’ “My understanding … is that … if you have health coverage that you like you can keep it. As I said, you may have missed my remarks at the beginning of the call, but one of the things I that I said as a requirement that I have for supporting a Democrat bill is that if you have health coverage that you like you should be able to keep that. …under every scenario that I’ve seen, if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it.” (Sen. Shaheen, “Health Care Questions From Across New Hampshire,” Accessed 11/13/13)
SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D-Mich.): “As someone who has a large number of large employers in my state, one of the things I appreciate about the Democrat chairman’s remark is — is the grandfathering provisions, the fact that the people in my state, 60 percent of whom have insurance, are going to be able to keep it. And Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that. That’s a strong commitment. It’s clear in the bill … I appreciate the strong commitment on your part and the president to make sure that if you have your insurance you can keep it. That’s the bottom line for me.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/24/09)
SEN. JON TESTER (D-Mont.): “‘If you like your coverage, you’ll be able to keep it,’ Tester said, adding that if Medicare changes, it will only become stronger”. (“Tester In Baker To Discuss Health Care,” The Fallon County Times, 11/20/09)
SEN. TOM UDALL (D-N.Mex.): “Some worried reform would alter their current coverage. It won’t. If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” (“What I Learned: About Health Care Reform This Summer, By Your Lawmakers In Congress,” Albuquerque Journal, 9/8/09)
SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-R.I.): “..it honors President Obama’s programs and the promise of all of the Presidential candidates that if you like the plan you have, you get to keep it. You are not forced out of anything.” (Sen. Whitehouse, Congressional Record, S.8668, 8/3/09)
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) the 60th vote on Obamacare: "people who are happy with their current plan, wouldn't need to change it."
FRANKEN YOUTUBE SOUND BITE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8I
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Twenty-nine Democrats who voted for it (including onetime lawmaker Landrieu who pocketed a bundle to vote for it) were ousted in the 2014 midterm Democrat Demolition Derby.
nobama is likely bitterly disappointed that nobamacare did not cave completely* while he had time to promote Single Payer as the ultimate solution.
His “Signature Legislation” has failed miserably. Lots of people are pissed about the rates and the lies. Those people should be voting for Trump.
* IMHO, it was designed to collapse in 2015. The idiots in Washington can’t even make a plan fail on time :)
Exactly. End it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart. Repeal it completely and do not replace it.
Obamacare (aka Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) was 'passed' without ANY GOP votes, behind closed doors, with the help of Al Franken's somewhat odorous disputed election victory(1) and a barely legal delay in seating Scott Brown to get the minimum 60 Senate votes for a procedural pass of a non-tax (until it was) financed bill that Speaker Pelosi said "had to be passed before we can tell you what is in it!" On top of that, both she and Majority Leader Reid both said you were basically AWOL on the actual detail work which was mostly done by paid lobbyists!
Of course, the less said about the nightmare implementation by incompetent crony programmers would probably suit you as well as us forgetting the promises you were so FIRM about - Keeping your doctor and annual $2,500 savings AND reduction of the 45 million uninsured (reduced now, yes, to about 19 million, due to penalties!)
Yes Sir, I know you will blame us - fortunately for you, the MSM finds it easy to lie for you!
(1) Why is it that almost every disputed election finds enough 'D' votes to go over the top? As for FL-2000, they were trying but they ran out of time!
Too late Lame Duck. You are OVER!
FUBO!
Sorry to hear your story. Pray that Trump wins and resolves this disaster. If you can buy car insurance from any company in any state why can’t you do the same with health insurance.
"If you like your home, you can keep your home. Period." But it turned out they bulldozed the home we liked. And then they gave us a "starter home" that has a leaky roof, the plumbing is broken, the electoral doesn't work, and the payments are higher.
Then the very people who did that are promising us a wondrous replacement home called "public option". Methinks that "public option" will be to health care what "public option" has been to housing -- a healthcare slum.
Gads this f**khead pisses me off.
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I think that Obama meant to say this: ObamaCare is a long term fixer-upper, not a starter home.
ObamaCare may have begun as a brand new starter home long ago, but it is now on its last legs, and has turned into a horrible fixer-upper that needs a lot of work.
Trump: Maybe he can buy it and fix it.
Sorry, Obama. This experiment has failed.
1. I think that ObamaCare is NOW in the flip-this-house territory.
2. ObamaCare may have started out as a starter home, but now it has disintegrated into a fixer-upper.
3. I don't think that Obama knows very much about real estate terms. He should spend some time watching those flip-this-house shows on tv so that the next time he tries to compare ObamaCare to some real estate property, he gets it right.
4. Hillary: If Hillary is elected, she will probably carry on Obama's ObamaCare thinking where Obama thinks of ObamaCare as a starter home, and not a fixer-upper. Sad.
5. Fixer-upper: I don't think that rich Hillary knows what a fixer-upper is.
6. Abortions and ObamaCare: We know one thing for sure: Under President Hillary---Hillary said so in the last debate---abortions in the last month---the 9th month--- will be allowed. So, I'm sure Hillary will allow persons covered by ObamaCare to have an abortion anytime she wants. Terrible.
This lying Commie bastard knows that HE and his party alone own this disaster.
It’s a redistribution scheme and a stepping stone to single payer. He told the unions it might take 20 years to get there but that is the goal.
He needs to drop his conspiracy story about opposition to his crooked scheme.
20 million illegals gained insurance and 20 million US citizens lost their coverage. As planned.
I’ll bet he gave himself a BJ after falling in love with his own image in that camera. AND he filmed it..
Joe Wilson called out Barack Obama as he lied and called his critics liars. It’s all come to pass that Joe Wilson spoke the truth. The bastard man-child in the White House LIED and knowingly lied.
They didn’t read the bill before they voted, that was the job the Republicans were supposed to do.
Jonathan “Lucky to still be alive” Gruber.
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