Looks Like Joe Was Right
Well, there he goes again.
The other day, the POTUS blamed “bad apple insurers” for the rise in premiums under the AHCA. This in spite of the fact that it was the increased AHCA coverage requirements that caused the rise in premiums. And the fact that regulations promulgated by his administrations HHS Secretary made it virtually impossible for a plan to remain grandfathered. And in spite of the fact that his own advisors knew – and presumably told him – that millions would lose their existing insurance under the AHCA for exactly these reasons.
In fact, this seems to be a pattern from the current Administration: when problems occur, claim they didn’t or shamelessly blame others for your own failings. According to this Administration, “Benghazi was because of an inflammatory film.” “We couldn’t get anyone there in time to help.” “We didn’t know about Fast and Furious when we testified before Congress”. “No, the IRS didn’t target conservatives and rubber-stamp political allies and those with connections.” “No, we won’t monitor phone conversations of US citizens.” “We don’t know how many signed up for the ACHA.”
And don’t even get me started on the other “whoppers” the Administration has told about the ACHA – like keeping existing insurance and doctors if you’re satisfied with them, for starters. That would take all day.
Joe caught a lot of grief about his public statement. But yeah, now it sure looks like Joe was right.
No, not Joe the VP and his nonsense about shotguns. Joe Wilson.
Category: Health Care debate, Reality Check
Hondo: The link to Joe “You lie!” Wilson is just like the HealthCare.gov site: It doesn’t work.
2/17 Air Cav: thanks. WordPress doesn’t handle links correctly if you leave off the “http://” or “https://” at the beginning – which I did originally. It’s fixed now.
It seems that no one likes the product known as obamacare. Only 248 people have signed up for it.
http://news.msn.com/us/documents-obamacare-enrollment-very-small-in-first-days
The unfortunate thing about this mess is that because insurance companies like profits, the premiums that are now multliple times what they were before Oct. 1 are unlikely to return to anything close to those lower levels, even if obamacare is ever repealed or amended.
When competition is not stifled by the government, insurance companies, like those in any other product or service industry, compete for our business. Absent an illegal price-rigging conspiracy among companies, this translates into competitive pricing and lower, not higher costs. Unlike the gov’t, which wrests our dollars from us under penalty of criminal prosecution and pays its employees for appearances at the workplace, not production, private sector companies know that lowering costs on a desirable product expands sales and that an overpriced product has only short-lived gains. There are a gazillion products that have gone down in relative cost over the years, including the computers we are using to comment on obamacare and the TVs we watch for stories about it. Time was one could say that the only thing gov’t did well was producing the world’s finest military. Now, it is screwing that up too.
When I saw the name “Joe”, knowing the article was about the ACA, I was reminded about when Joe Biden leaned over the president’s shoulder and said, “This is a big fuckin’ deal!”, hot mike and all.
Yeah, the ACA has become a “big fuckin’ deal”, but not the way they intended I’m sure.
Of course Joe was right. This administration doesn’t know how to tell the truth about anything. Lying is SOP for these criminal rat bastards.
gawd, I was terrified the headline meant Biden had said something correct – was shaking my whole worldview.
David–not to worry, not gonna happen.
@7. I thought he was referring to that nincompoop Joe who used to comment here. We lost him, I beleve, right after we lost (by expulsion) Insipid the Gay Pornographer.
So, yeah, Wilson was right then. The Emperor is the lyinest liar there ever was, ceratinly as WH occupants go.