As Democrats grow increasingly worried that ObamaCare will explode on the launch pad just as midterm elections get going, the Obama administration seeks to pin blame on Republicans. Good luck with that.
Earlier this week, Health and Human Services head Kathleen Sebelius admitted that she didn’t realize how complicated getting ObamaCare off the ground would be.
Sebelius complained that “no one fully anticipated” the difficulties involved in implementing ObamaCare, or how confusing it would be with the public.
Sebelius Tries To Blame GOP For Coming ObamaCare Failures – Investors.com
Nancy Pelosi : March 9, 2010
we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy
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I saw the story about Sebelius. She is claiming republicans do not like the law. DUH! Not a single republican senator voted for it! Not even Olympia or Snowe.
So Obama rammed it down the throats, and then expects help in implementing it? I guess democrats have never heard the old cliche – you made your bed, now sleep in it.
You mean Snowe and Collins?
Write in haste, and repent in leisure. Yes I did. Sorry for the blooper. Snowe and Olympia are the same (or were).
Anyway, we physicians (except for the AMA which represents only one-sixth of doctors) were warning of Obamacare’s problems since it’s inception. The Democrats chose to ignore our concerns. Now, prediction after prediction is coming true, notably ones related to skyrocketing costs, employers dropping or changing plans, and govt dictating what is covered (USPSTF, and the soon-to-be IPAB).
Do people realize that USPSTF has dictated that mammograms under age 50 are no longer covered, and that PSA screening for prostate cancer is no longer covered at any age? The rationale (which is mostly quite valid, actually, related to lead-time bias and cost/consequences of false positives) is beyond the scope of this post, but the point is that the decision has been taken out of the doctors’ and patients’ hands, e.g. for those who are high-risk who may desire screening. But USPSTF is now a death panel for some patients, and most people don’t know it.
I think Democrats designed this thing to fail so that they could then push-on to single payer.
“I think Democrats designed this thing to fail so that they could then push-on to single payer.”
They designed it like the designed HMOs. To fail, so they would have to come back and “fix it” with more legislation.
Sounds like what they are doing with the new gun thinggy they want to pass. Note I am not laughing.
It gets worse…almost a repeat of “You have to pass the bill so you can see what’s in it.”
A comment on Infowars: “…most senators, including ardent supporters, have not read the [gun control] bill. “Well, I haven’t seen the bill, so I’m going to reserve my concerns,” California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein told Morning Joe. “I only know what people have told me.” http://www.infowars.com/treason-alert-dems-try-to-move-gun-bill-forward-without-allowing-senators-to-read-it/
Thanks, Senator…
😆 pretty much sums it up!
Completely predictable.
Anybody withen 10 foot of it should have been able to smell what it was full of.
“As Democrats grow increasingly worried that ObamaCare will explode on the launch pad just as midterm elections get going, the Obama administration seeks to pin blame on Republicans. Good luck with that.”
This is a joke right? Dems won’t have any problems blaming it on the Rs. The MS will go right along with it and push the meme and so will all the Dem websites (Moveon, Kos, DU, etc.) Rs will grovel and let them do it. Fact checking will be buried.
“Sebelius complained that “no one fully anticipated” the difficulties involved in implementing ObamaCare, . . ”
No one fully anticipated the difficulties, outside of the millions of opponents and commentators, or the Canadians, or the British, or anywhere else socialized medicine has been tried. And we’re not talking about a few glitches here and there that need to be tweaked, but massive systemic problems. Congress should be raking these people over the coals, and exposing them for the incompetent frauds they are.
Well, in a way, they’re right – if the House hadn’t passed the “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009” (H R 3590, 416-0, 14NV), it wouldn’t have been available for Harry Reid in the Senate to take the original 8-page bill, do a “gut-and-amend”, and give us the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
PhilJourdan said: “…Not a single republican senator voted for it!…”
And, when the Senate was done, and it had to go back to the House (agreed to Senate amendment on March 21, 2010), not a single Republican House member voted for it either.