Of all the craven, despicable political spin thrown our way in the last five years, does anything top this latest attempt to put lipstick on the Obamacare Pig ?
Last week, Megyn Kelly interviewed Emily Miller, a reporter from the Washington Times, who spoke about the disaster of Obamacare. And, on the opposing side, a Dem talking head, Mark Hannah, who claimed that the hundreds of thousands of people who have just lost their health insurance plans … wait for it…. had “predatory, crummy insurance.”
Via The Washington Times: Emily Miller on Fox News with Megyn Kelly about Obamacare (video is embedded in the article)
At the time, I thought this guy was just being “off the wall.”
But yesterday, Howard Dean picked up on this new meme:
Via Washington Examiner: Howard Dean says Obamacare forcing bad insurance companies to cancel policyholders
“What this is doing is driving the fly-by-night insurance companies out of the market,” Dean said on ABC’s “This Week” after the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol predicted that about 85 percent of people with individual insurance policies will lose their current plan.
Kristol pressed Dean about his “fly by night” jab by asking, “when Blue Shield and these huge companies drop 300,000 people in Florida, those are fly-by-night insurance companies?”
Dean settled on arguing that “even good companies have crappy policies with enormous deductibles.”
Yep, according to this new meme, Obamacare is actually helping us weed out all the awful, crappy insurance plans that we were happy with.
They really do think we are that stupid.
Related:
Via The Daily Caller: Here’s how Obamacare makes life hell for college profs
The Unaffordable Care deductibles are significantly larger than old health ins. deductibles.
Dean was Governor of Vermont. Vermont is a liberal State with socialist Bernie Sanders as one of its U.S. Senators. Vermont was first State to post premium costs for new health ins. and operates its own website. Vermont politicians have stated that they plan to go to universal health care in 2017 (I don’t know if legislation has been passed or not). So how many of Vermont’s approx. 625,000 citizens have signed up for the new health ins.? As of last Friday, 1,588 plans have been purchased by individuals and small business. Breakdown unknown and how may individuals were medicaid enrollees unknown. And oh yes, Vermont website has its glitches too. No word on are they Good Glitches or Wicked Glitches. But my suspicion is that they are melting. http://www.rgj.com/article/BT/20131027/NEWS07/310270039/Vermont-Health-Connect-Glitches-fixes-calls-backup-plan
Meanwhile the debt speedometer is hitting new highs. When trillion dollar mile posts start to look like a picket fence and smoke is pouring out of the Fed none of this matters in my opinion. Quit spending so much, cut the political strangle hold on energy and private industry. Wealth does not grow from politicians pushing buttons and pulling levers, whatever reserves are left just move to their pockets.
Notice how “Screaming Dean” goes after the insurance company to demonize them, cuz that’s what liberals do. They used them to get the law passed, now they spit in their eye. What happened to, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” Crummy, or not.
Ok stoopid liberals, a $12,000 family deductible is higher than a $2500 family deductible. Even LIVs know that. Higher monthly premiums will drive some people to have to choose between mortgage, utilities, and food, or health insurance. This law will bankrupt the middle class in America. But maybe that was part of the plan all along.
This may be one of the new memes to start the conversation about single payer, by weeding out the so called “bad insurance companies”. Don’t forget: liberals, LIVs, and the chronically uninformed all fell for the meme “If you like your crummy President, you can keep your crummy President.”
Anyone with two brain cells will see the discrepancy between “If you like your policy, you can keep your policy” and the elimination of policies that the government deems “crappy”. Alas, politicians live and die not based upon their history, but upon what they said yesterday.
I suppose it’s stupid to point out that if an insurance company made false representations to me to get me to buy their product, the policy would be rescinded and the seller would go to jail. But when a politician makes false representations to me to get my support for a law, the law stays in place and the politician suffers no consequences.
Drudge has just linked this story, “Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance”
So aside from the blatant lies, the problem is exacerbated by bureaucratic mandate (as indicated by the words emphasized above, which means that Obama’s HHS Sec’y Sebelius tweaked the law so as to maximize damage). In other words, not only did Obama lie about the law, but then he acted to make it even worse than the authors had promised or intended.
I made an attempt to scan through the bill after it was passed. I found it impossible to get through because of all the cross referencing to section this and paragraph that. What stood out clearly though was the very frequent appearance of words to the effect “the Secretary of HHS shall make a determination”. This is healthcare by decree.
As to Shifra’s point, when the Dems were pressing to pass legislation there was strong, even hysterical, emphasis on how many Americans didn’t have insurance and the urgency to do something to fix the system. Now they are quick to point out 80% of Americans are covered by their employers. So it really wasn’t necessary to tear down everything after all.
Well, Pat_S, I, too, did not read the bill. I mean, I don’t have two lawyers. You probably don’t, either.
And neither does Rep. John Conyers. Remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t32ckkdlcao
Down the rabbit hole.
Pat, I can read about 3000 words a minute….and I couldn’t read the damn thing. I am convinced all the cross referencing was purposely added just to make it extremely difficult to read and moreover; understand…..
If the goal had been simply to insure the uninsured but leave the satisfied people alone, then in a straightforward world, the approach would simply be to levy a tax on some of us and use the money to pay for another’s insurance. However, that is far to transparent for political purposes, and it also fails to reinforce the principle of executive hegemony over the people.
At this point, anyone that pays for their own insurance has been slammed hard by the “Affordable Care Act”. And we know that the same consequences that hit us are hitting everyone else…except they may not be aware of it, because it may appear to be someone else’s problem…their employers, the government, the website, whatever. So I fear, as obvious as it is, that it remains a distinct minority of the people that understand that Obamacare is fundamentally unworkable. Not to mention Medicare and Social Security, in their present form.
The political end game is to run us into the rocks because the crisis will prove politically useful.
This seizure of power is just as significant as the seizure of power in the Russian Revolution by the Lenin’s Reds in 1918. They also had the support of the police and military leaders like BO has. They immediately perverted every government agency then as they are now.
Democrat party is officially the party of…..”f**k you, and you will do what we say you can do.” The most blatant seizure of raw power since….hell, never has happened before.
Insidious implication of saying, transition instead of cancellation, is:
Cancellation is based on, the health ins. co. offers a product of health care but ins. co. does not control your health.
Transition is based on, the gov’t does not offer a product of health care but the gov’t does control your health.
The wordiness makes the health care plan of the government seem “tricky” & suspicious. Simplicity & directness can be powerful. What the government is offering now is highly dubious.
Andrew Malcolm points out that because of Obama’s travel to Boston for healthcare speech, he closed the Mass. Turnpike on the night of the World Series game in Boston. I’m sure that was a special favor he did for Red Sox fans. (nice pic of a lame duck btw)
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/103113-677392-obama-wall-street-journal-nbc-poll-plunge.htm