Fondly Remembering Obama – 6/26/2017

4 thoughts on “Fondly Remembering Obama – 6/26/2017”

1. Why am I less than impressed with President Obama?

   Well on this occasion, he LIED repeatedly about his health care plan.

   1. I could NOT keep my own insurance.
   2. I could NOT keep my own doctor.
   3. Instead of my premiums going down by $2500 a year, as promised, they went up by that amount.
   4. None of the debates were televised on CSPAN as promised in an attempt to maintain transparency.
   5. Many Democrat Senators were “bribed” with pork for their constituents if they would cave and vote for the egregious bill (such as in the cornhusker kickback).

   When all was said and done, not one Republican voted for this law and even SCOTUS had to twist the “tax/not a tax” rhetoric in order to justify its constitutionality.

   This law to “help” the American people ended up hurting far more than it helped. But I guess the ends justifies the means as the real motive was to try and get to single payer government run health care, right?

   Yeah, I am not impressed with this snake oil salesman.

   1. 1) I’m sorry your plan was phased out due to the new guidelines
      2) I’m sorry because your plan was phased out and your doctor did not take the plan that your new plan replaced
      3) Market stabilization forces. Capitalism is inaction.
      4) Not the President’s fault…? He doesn’t dictate what the Congress does and does not allow C-Span to cover. Though a cursory google search will show you the instances/debates/conversations that C-Span broadcasted about Healthcare Reform in 2010
      5) Many Democra-tic Senators were allowed to put riders on the bill… because that’s how this works. in. every. instance. a. bill. comes. to. the. floor. It’s kinda what people vote for the senators to do.

   2. How can you use the number of Republicans who voted for the bill as any kind of standard for determining its value? We appear to be past the point of the parties working together on major issues. If Democrats don’t vote for the sorry upcoming excuse for a health care bill from Republicans, does that also mean that the Republican plan is garbage? If they didn’t vote for *your* ideal health care plan, would that mean that your plan is garbage?

      Anyway, the objection to the costs of the plans under the ACA seems to me to be implicitly an objection to covering millions of additional people, many of whom have pre-existing conditions, without lifetime limits. I’m not saying that there’s something wrong with not wanting to pay an additional $2500 a year and have a higher deductible, but I’m still waiting for the alternative health insurance/care system proposals that do what the ACA does *without* raising prices (or indirectly raising taxes) and without involving a total government takeover of the system. The current Republican plan certainly doesn’t seem to do that. Until the country is ready to accept a proper alternative, it seems like we are doomed to continue fighting over whether it’s more important to get and keep people insured or to save the government and the existing insured money.

2. When all was said and done, not one Republican voted for this law

   Obama told Republicans, “If you have a better plan, let’s see it”. Of course the party dedicated to obstructing the candidate who won the MAJORITY of votes failed to offer a better plan.

   Obviously Republicans didn’t vote for it because it didn’t cut taxes for the rich, deregulate Wall Street, gut environmental rules, and cut food stamps for the needy.

   Now thanks to the will of the voters being usurped by the electoral college, their agenda is back on track, sort of. As soon as they agree on how much to give the rich and take from the poor.

   “Mean” isn’t mean enough to these authoritarian servants of mammon.

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