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Obama wins LIE OF THE YEAR !
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:42 AM
SHINYGOODGUY
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:39 AM
M52NICKERSON
DALEK!
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:11 AM
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
Quote:Originally posted by kpo: Quote:The idea of providing health care for everyone is commendable, but the implementation by this administration has been massively botched. The individual market was a mess, and reforming it was always going to cause disruption in that market. There were always going to be winners and losers, and there was no way to reform it that would have allowed everyone to keep their plans. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/08/wonkbook-obama-shouldnt-apologize-for-blowing-up-the-terrible-individual-market/ Quote:Obama is rightly taking flack for making a promise he wasn't going to keep, and he's right to apologize for it. But he shouldn't apologize for blowing up the individual market. It needed to be done. Quote:Obama was wrong to promise that everyone who liked their insurance could keep it. For a small minority of Americans, that flatly isn't true. But the real sin would've been leaving the individual insurance market alone. Amen.
Quote:The idea of providing health care for everyone is commendable, but the implementation by this administration has been massively botched.
Quote:Obama is rightly taking flack for making a promise he wasn't going to keep, and he's right to apologize for it. But he shouldn't apologize for blowing up the individual market. It needed to be done.
Quote:Obama was wrong to promise that everyone who liked their insurance could keep it. For a small minority of Americans, that flatly isn't true. But the real sin would've been leaving the individual insurance market alone.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:13 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:11 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: It is the main reason why Bush has pretty much remained silent on the issue. How can anyone with the LIE Record that he has even begin to talk crap about Obama without incriminating himself.
Quote: This is all part of the Nazis spreading propaganda, the Obstructionists Handbook is alive and well and living the high life in Wacko Central. Demonize and devalue his worth at every turn, everything is black and white (no pun intended Rap). SGG
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:25 PM
KPO
Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.
Quote:And even if the individual market was a mess, that doesn't excuse... lying about being able to keep insurance you like.
Quote:And the botched rollout of Healthcare.org (which you somehow don't address)WAS pretty obvious.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:03 PM
Quote:?In 2013, more than one-third (37%) of U.S. adults went without recommended care, did not see a doctor when they were sick, or failed to fill prescriptions because of costs, compared with as few as 4 percent to 6 percent in the United Kingdom and Sweden. ?Roughly 40 percent of both insured and uninsured U.S. respondents spent $1,000 or more out-of-pocket during the year on medical care, not counting premiums. High deductibles and cost-sharing, along with no limits on out-of-pocket costs, help explain why even insured people in the U.S. struggled to afford needed health care. ?Nearly one-quarter (23%) of U.S. adults either had serious problems paying medical bills or were unable to pay them, compared with fewer than 13 percent of adults in the next-highest country, France, and 6 percent or fewer in the U.K., Sweden, and Norway. ?About one of three (32%) U.S. adults spent a lot of time dealing with insurance paperwork and disputes or were either denied payment for a claim or paid less than expected. Only 25 percent of adults in Switzerland, 19 percent in the Netherlands, and 17 percent in Germany—-all countries with competitive health insurance markets—-reported these problems. U.S. insurers spent $606 per person on administrative costs, more than twice the amount in the next-highest country. Such high costs result from a complex, fragmented insurance system. ?The vast majority (75%) of U.S. adults said their health system needs to undergo fundamental changes or be rebuilt completely. ?The U.S. spends $8,508 per person on health care. That is nearly $3,000 more per person than Norway, the second-highest spender. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/In-the-Literature/2013/Nov/Access-Affordability-and-Insurance.aspx]
Quote:Ten years ago, the US healthcare system was declared “broken,” and it has not improved. Fixes promised by managed care have not materialized. Premiums are rising. Hassles for patients and physicians abound. Nearly 45 million Americans are uninsured. Over the next decade, these problems will worsen and new challenges will arise. Although new technology will increase efficiency, the cost of new tests and treatments will outweigh the savings. As costs rise, the status quo will not be acceptable to employers. Some will eliminate benefits for new hires. Others will get out of the insurance business entirely, contributing some funds to coverage costs but no longer providing coverage themselves. These changes will cause the number of uninsured citizens to grow. http://circ.ahajournals.org/]
Quote:More than one-sixth of the U.S. economy is devoted to health care spending and that percentage continues to rise every year. Regrettably, our system is not delivering value commensurate with the estimated $2.7 trillion spent annually on health care. Experts agree that an estimated 20 to 30 percent of that spending – up to $800 billion a year – goes to care that is wasteful, redundant, or inefficient. Rising health care costs punish our nation on multiple fronts. For families and seniors, the soaring cost of medical care means less money in their pockets and forces hard choices about balancing food, rent, and needed care. For small businesses and Fortune 500 employers alike, they make it more expensive to add new employees, more difficult to maintain retiree coverage, and harder to compete in the global economy. For federal, state, and local governments, rising health care costs lead to higher Medicare and Medicaid costs, and reduced funding on other priorities such as infrastructure, education and public safety. The net results of rising health care costs are far-reaching and ominous: higher costs for health insurance, the fraying of the nation’s safety net, an erosion in our global competitiveness, and long-term fiscal insolvency. http://www.ahip.org/Issues/Rising-Health-Care-Costs.aspx
Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:30 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Actually, Bush 41's " read my lips " is closer to Barry's pledge to close Gitmo in year 1 of being in office. May have meant it at the time, but failed to carry through. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:49 AM
Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:58 AM
Thursday, December 19, 2013 3:37 AM
Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:13 AM
Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by kpo: Quote:And even if the individual market was a mess, that doesn't excuse... lying about being able to keep insurance you like. Indeed, and I've said so multiple times. Quote:And the botched rollout of Healthcare.org (which you somehow don't address)WAS pretty obvious. I didn't address it BECAUSE IT IS obvious. There's nothing to debate there, it's an accepted fact, one I've referred to many times.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:54 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:58 AM
Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:37 PM
Quote:So you're agreeing that your comment was pretty much pointless. Fine. Keep it up.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 7:42 PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Obama's lies. The gift that just keeps on giving !!! Justice Dept. denies briefing Obama on IRS targeting President dismissed any ‘corruption’ in scandal The Justice Department said Tuesday that nobody briefed President Obama on its investigation of the IRS ahead of his statement Sunday that there was no evidence of corruption in the tax agency’s targeting of tea party groups.] “Generally, we do not brief elected officials,” Deputy Attorney General James Cole told a House committee on Tuesday. Republicans said that called into question why the president made his statement to Fox News over the weekend that there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS, given the FBI’s investigation is ongoing and Mr. Obama hasn’t been briefed on it. “How can he be so sure, when it’s an ongoing investigation?” said Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican and chairman of a key investigative committee looking into the IRS and the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the agency. Mr. Cole said that was a question only the White House could answer, but repeated that nobody at the Justice Department had briefed Mr. Obama.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 1:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Place that right up there on the mantel, next to your Nobel Peace Prize, Barry ! Obama Gets PolitiFact's 'Lie Of The Year' Prize For Healthcare Claims Quote: Fact-checking website PolitiFact is out with the latest edition of its "Lie of the Year." In 2013, the dubious prize went to President Obama for his widely derided claim that, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." Many people, of course, found that they could not keep their plans, as the higher standards set by Obamacare rendered them null and void. The administration and Congress quickly moved in with proposed fixes to the mushrooming political problem. PolitiFact is often criticized for its fact-checking methodology, and some noted that it had rated previous statements by Obama along similar lines as "half true." Ironically, all three runners-up slots in PolitiFact's roundup went to Republicans for their own statements on Obamacare. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/politifact-lie-of-the-year-2013-obama-health-care_n_4435389.html And for those who want to make a fuss about the runner ups ? Like Ricky Bobby says... " If you ain't first, you're last ! "
Quote: Fact-checking website PolitiFact is out with the latest edition of its "Lie of the Year." In 2013, the dubious prize went to President Obama for his widely derided claim that, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." Many people, of course, found that they could not keep their plans, as the higher standards set by Obamacare rendered them null and void. The administration and Congress quickly moved in with proposed fixes to the mushrooming political problem. PolitiFact is often criticized for its fact-checking methodology, and some noted that it had rated previous statements by Obama along similar lines as "half true." Ironically, all three runners-up slots in PolitiFact's roundup went to Republicans for their own statements on Obamacare.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: I have one word - WMDs (snicker, chuckle, snort!) SGG
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