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Obama: Democrats ‘Should Be Proud’ of Obamacare Canceling Plans, Cutting Hours and Losing Doctorshttps:


By David Rutz
President Obama, trumpeting the 7.1 million “enrollees” in Obamacare Tuesday in the Rose Garden, told his fellow Democrats like Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi that they “should be proud of what they’ve done” to pass the Affordable Care Act.


BY: David Rutz

April 2, 2014 5:05 pm

President Obama, trumpeting the 7.1 million “enrollees” in Obamacare Tuesday in the Rose Garden, told his fellow Democrats like Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi that they “should be proud of what they’ve done” to pass the Affordable Care Act.

Presumably, he means they should be bursting with pride at their part in raising premiums, cutting workers’ hours, forcing layoffs, canceling plans and Americans losing their preferred doctors.

It’s a great day to be a Democrat.

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YESSSSSS.. They should All be proud of what they have done...Every last one of the "jacka--" who voted for this fiasco. Democ-rats, Rebug-nants, Libertarians, Independenats, all of them who voted for it!!!!

Budowsky: Republicans’ O-Care blunders





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By Brent Budowsky - 04/02/14 06:02 PM EDT

With the powerful new surge of ObamaCare customers that has surpassed all expectations and brought the number of enrollees above 7 million, it is a major political blunder for Republican leaders to insult these Americans by claiming they are too stupid to understand the financial interests of their families and threatening to use the jackhammer of Republican big government to take away insurance they bought after making informed choices in a free market.

J’accuse: The closest thing to socialism in America in 2014 is a GOP that proposes to use the dominating power of the Republican vision of the federal government to take away the private property of private insurance bought from private companies by individual citizens, after considering competing products in a capitalist system.

Even after the most expensive and aggressive negative TV campaign ever run against a consumer product in the history of capitalism, Republicans refuse to respect the decisions of customers.In another sign of GOP overreach, a recent Washington Post/ABC poll found support for ObamaCare rising to nearly 50 percent. Polls will vary, but more than 7 million Americans have voted with their enrollments, a number that could approach 10 million if the enrollment period were extended for three months, as I recently proposed.

It is a major political blunder for the GOP to continue attacking Medicare, as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) does in his new budget proposal, by seeking to privatize this highly popular program and turn it into another profit center for big banks.

Republicans are making the same mistake on ObamaCare that they made during what I called their “Benghazi disease” phase when they turned the House of Representatives into a Republican house of inquisitions with their discredited, taxpayer-financed attempt to wound former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which left her with landslide leads over all opponents in 2016 polling.

The GOP politics of ideology, fanaticism, negativity, overconfidence and overreaching did grave damage to Republicans in 2006, 2008 and 2012, which continues today in their obsession to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The party is trying to force voters to follow dictates from Republicans in Congress who have unfavorable ratings of 80 percent.

During Act I of the ObamaCare drama, Democrats suffered a devastating defeat in the battle of the rollout. During Act II, Democrats won a powerful victory in the battle of enrollments. As attention shifts to Act III, the battle over premiums, a well-executed battle plan could turn a potential Democratic liability into a decisive Democratic advantage.

Democrats are hoping for, and fighting for, the lowest possible premiums for customers. Republicans are hoping for, and campaigning for, the highest premiums and greatest pain for customers.

Democrats should frame the issue this way: If voters want to pay lower premiums, they should vote for Democrats. If voters want to pay higher premiums, they should vote for Republicans.

In addition, President Obama should invite the CEOs of insurance companies to the White House for two meetings.
The first meeting, which should occur soon, would include a discussion about the competitive benefits for insurers who keep premiums lower than their competitors.

The second meeting, which should take place closer to the time of new premium announcements (and Election Day), would be held to thank those insurers that announce premiums lower than competitors to maximize market share and benefit customers.

The mother of all ObamaCare blunders for Republicans is that they really do hunger for Americans to be slammed by higher premiums, for partisan political reasons, and they cannot control their instincts to show it.

Democrats have an opportunity for political jujitsu that could turn a potential liability into a decisive asset, by going all-out to drive publicity, acclaim and customers to insurers that keep premiums down.

The ObamaCare marketing machine that drove enrollments above 7 million is on a rapidly upward curve that has enormous power, if fully unleashed, to drive educated consumers to lower-premium insurers while inspiring educated voters to support Democrats in November.
Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at brentbbi@webtv.net.


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With the powerful new surge of ObamaCare customers that has surpassed all expectations and brought the number of enrollees above 7 million, it is a major political blunder for Republican leaders to insult these Americans by claiming they are too stupid to understand the financial interests of their families and threatening to use the jackhammer of Republican big government to take away insurance they bought after making informed choices in a free market.

And they just continue to feed on the lie....

April 03, 2014, 12:54 pm Carney: Gibbs wrong on mandate

By Justin Sink

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The White House said Thursday that former press secretary Robert Gibbs was wrong to predict that the administration would not implement the employer mandate in ObamaCare.

Asked if he agreed with his predecessor's prediction, White House press secretary Jay Carney said flatly that he did not, and that the administration would not again delay the penalty on businesses who do not offer their employees healthcare.


“As the final rules put out in February made clear, this will be phased in next year,” Carney said.“Having spent time at the pundits table … you can make predictions all the time that turn out to be true,” Carney said.
During a speech in Colorado, Gibbs noted that the employer mandate had been twice delayed and predicted it would never be implemented.
“I don’t think the employer mandate will go into effect. It’s a small part of the law. I think it will be one of the first things to go,” Gibbs said.
Under the most recently announced delay, employers with between 50 and 99 employees have until January 2016 to offer health insurance or pay a fine. Companies with more than 100 employees must offer insurance or pay a fine of $2,000 per worker by January 2015. Those with fewer than 50 employees are not subject to the penalty.

Carney downplayed that phase-in approach, saying it was similar to the individual mandate, where the penalties charged to taxpayers who don't purchase insurance increase over time.

“What we have seen is this administration act very comprehensively to make sure the transition into the marketplace that has been taking effect can be done as smoothly as possible,” Carney said.

Gibbs also recommended other “common-sense” improvements to the law, including offering “an additional layer of coverage cheaper than the plans already offered.”

Right now, catastrophic plans are available for certain young consumers, or those who qualify for hardship exemptions. Carney said he couldn't evaluate if expanding access to those plans made sense.

“There are all sorts of possible improvements that you could put out on the table, and what the president has always said is he would entrain specific measures that would improve the law,” he said. “I can't, as a spokesman and not a healthcare policy expert, evaluate each proposal here from the podium.”

Carney did caution that the White House would not support proposals that would undermine the healthcare reform effort.

“What we've seen from Republicans have been either all-out repeal efforts or repeal efforts in the guise of small changes,” Carney said.



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Note that this article is from Bloomberg!!!! "The swing voter does not want to repeal obamacare".. Really no one is signing up for it. No, your right, they don't want it repealed, they want it cancelled and or shut down and destroyed. It is all about control of you and yours and very little to do with healthcare...

Obamacare! Our Numbers Don’t Lie!- It Sucks!

By Julie Prince / 4 April 2014




Isn’t it funny how when Obama speaks it makes you vomit in your mouth a little? When it should be words you are hearing, it’s just the sounds of the teacher from the Charlie Brown Peanuts specials squawking out delusional diatribes…“Wah wah wah wah, wah wah!”

Obama gave a painful speech on Tuesday in the Rose Garden at the White House containing more questionable data and souped-up fallacies regarding the closing of open enrollment for Obamacare. Obama claimed that 7.1 million Americans have signed up for Obamacare. Could it be just a teansie little coincidence that this is almost the same number that Kathleen Sebelius said the administration had predicted would sign up and have coverage many months before? This number represents the amount of people who have “signed up”, not who have paid their premiums. Until the premiums are paid, a person remains without insurance. Maybe it was the sticker shock considering many people thought it would be “affordable”.

What about the millions of Americans who have lost their coverage due to cancellations or were moved to part time work so their employers could avoid this train wreck of a tax!? Maybe it just slipped their minds when they did their factoring of numbers. Maybe Obama was on crack when he said this statement: “In these first six months, we’ve taken a big step forward. Under this law, the share of Americans with insurance is up, and the growth of our healthcare costs is down”.

This a blatant lie to the American people. Would you expect anything less at this point from Barry? This little number could also include illegal aliens– criminals who aren’t legally eligible to receive Obamacare! A group known as “Obama Navigators” are educating and signing illegals up for Obamacare at Mexican consulates throughout the country. The consulates have also been used to promote food stamp programs as well. Navigators believe it is their job to educate and enroll Mexicans whether they are legal or not. Obama has reinforced the actions by coming out in support of illegals saying that by enrolling online for Obamacare, that information would not be used to determine legal status, quoting, “None of the information that is provided in order for you to obtain health insurance is in any way transferred to immigration services”

Obama has gleefully opened the gateway to what some would consider the beginning of complete anarchy in America. The “leader of the free world” has appointed himself a position of judge and jury to take any issue he doesn’t find for the better of his agenda to task- regardless of the law, regardless of the constitution, and regardless of the free will of the American people. If Barry wants to get something accomplished, all he does is take out his golden fountain pen from his pocket protector and makes it magically happen by force. Fabulous leadership skills indeed!

Progress isn’t measured by how many people are forced into economic slavery because of Obamacare. America is on the brink of collapse financially, and programs such as Obamatax is just part of the cancer that has infested the American way of life; burrowing deep into the very threads of what our founding fathers had built so men could be free. A legacy built on a house of cards always loses in the end, for it’s the winds of change that will determine the future of healthcare.

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He makes me want to vomit everytime I see his face or hear his voice.

Progress isn’t measured by how many people are forced into economic slavery because of Obamacare. America is on the brink of collapse financially, and programs such as Obamatax is just part of the cancer that has infested the American way of life; burrowing deep into the very threads of what our founding fathers had built so men could be free. A legacy built on a house of cards always loses in the end, for it’s the winds of change that will determine the future of healthcare.

We are on a fast ride down and the communists are at the helm making sure we hit the bottom in record time...reducing us all to slaves of the government starving and living in mud hits. The future is scary IMO....

Masterful Argument from Obama: “Paul Ryan’s Budget Is Mean” April 4, 2014

Masterful Argument from Obama: “Paul Ryan’s Budget Is Mean” Posted By Chris Graham on Apr 4, 2014 Rep. Paul Ryan released the 2015 House Republican budget on Tuesday and President Obama called it mean. If you told someone that one political party released a budget and that someone from the other political party called it mean, this person would know immediately that the latter was a Democrat. “He argued what? That it was mean? That’s easy—he’s the liberal.” The end goal of Ryan’s budget is to cut government spending by $5.1 trillion over the next ten years. But in an age when the national debt increases by an average of about $1 trillion per year, all this budget would do is create a slower increase. It’s better than nothing, I guess. Ryan will not have my vote in the future should he ever decide to run for president—amnesty—but I give him credit for having some huevos. His budget focuses mainly on America’s great albatross, entitlement programs. It’s through the promise of more of these entitlements that most politicians get elected and re-elected. So, although we need bigger cuts than just $5 trillion, good on him. The day after this budget’s release, President Obama was out campaigning in Michigan to garner support for an increase of the minimum wage from the current $7.25 to the arbitrary number of $10.10. He wasn’t just there to talk about the minimum wage, of course, but to slime Republicans. I don’t mind when politicians talk badly about each other. I think it’s fun and it prevents them from doing any damage to the country. Bipartisanship is a truly dangerous thing in politics. As long as everybody disagrees with each other, junk legislation can’t be passed. The problem is that Republicans don’t know how to be partisan. It’s like they don’t have the will to win or the viciousness to play that Democrats do. Attacking your political enemies at a public forum is fine with me, but it must be done right. Obama’s usually pretty skilled at it, and Wednesday was no exception. In his speech in Michigan, Obama offered the tremendously intellectual argument that Ryan’s budget is mean. “If they tried to sell this sandwich [Ryan's budget] at Zingerman’s [an Ann Arbor local deli] they’d have to call it the Stinkburger or the Meanwich,” he said. Masterful. It’s “mean,” this budget, therefore it shouldn’t be passed. It’s fiscally sound, but because it doesn’t make us want to cuddle, it must not be passed. Get rid of it. Obama is an odd character, isn’t he? At times he is the most bitter and abrasive president we’ve ever had the displeasure of being bossed around by, and at other times he just sounds like a five-year-old. “Mean”? Come on, Obama, don’t be such a stereotypical leftist. Read more at http://lastresistance.com/5298/maste...2YOtcFWREaF.99

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BREAKING: Healthcare.gov Fumbler Kathleen Sebelius Resigns as Secretary of HHS

It's been a long, frustrating ride...

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Sebelius resigns after health care rollout fiasco

JULIE PACE, The Associated Press
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius listens as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2014, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the HHS Department's fiscal Year 2015 budget. A White House official says Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning as the White House seeks to move past the election-year political damage inflicted by the rocky rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
Sebelius' resignation comes just over a week after sign-ups closed for the first year of insurance coverage under the so-called Obamacare law. The opening weeks of the enrollment period were marred by widespread website woes, though the administration rebounded strongly by enrolling 7.1 million people by the March 31 deadline, exceeding initial expectations. Enrollment has since risen to 7.5 million as people were given extra time to complete applications.
Even with the late surge in sign-ups, the law remains unpopular with many Americans and Republicans have made it a centerpiece of their efforts to retake the Senate in the fall.
Sebelius' resignation could also set the stage for a contentious confirmation hearing to replace her. In a sign that the White House is seeking to avoid a nomination fight, the president was tapping Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace Sebelius. Burwell was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for her current post.
A White House official requested anonymity to confirm Sebelius' resignation and Burwell's nomination ahead of the formal announcement. Obama has not nominated anyone to replace Burwell as budget director.
Obama remained publicly supportive of Sebelius throughout the rough rollout, deflecting Republican calls for her resignation. But she was conspicuously not standing by his side last week when he heralded the sign-up surge during an event in the White House Rose Garden.
The official said the 65-year-old Sebelius approached Obama last month about stepping down, telling him that the sign-up deadline was a good opportunity for a transition and suggesting he would be better served by someone who was less of a political target.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican from Sebelius' home state of Kansas, called the resignation "a prudent decision" given what she called the total failure of Obamacare implementation.
Sebelius dropped no hints about her resignation Thursday when she testified at a budget hearing. Instead, she received congratulations from Democratic senators on the sign-up surge.
A popular former governor of Kansas, Sebelius has been one of Obama's longest-serving Cabinet officials and his only HHS secretary. She was instrumental in shepherding the health care law through Congress in 2010 and implementing its initial components, including a popular provision that allows young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
But Sebelius' relationship with the White House frayed during the fall rollout of the insurance exchanges that are at the center of the sweeping overhaul. The president and his top advisers appeared caught off guard by the extent of the website woes, with warnings from those working on the technology never making it to the West Wing.
After technical problems crippled online sign-ups after the Oct. 1 launch, the White House sent management expert and longtime Obama adviser Jeffrey Zients to oversee a rescue operation that turned things around by the end of November. After taking helm of the project, Zients said management issues were partly to blame but did not point the finger at any individuals.
Sebelius took personal responsibility for the chaotic launch of the website and asked the HHS inspector general to conduct an investigation. That report is not expected for months.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a staunch supporter of the health care law, praised Sebelius as a "forceful, effective and essential" secretary.
"Secretary Sebelius was a leader in the long effort to make history for our country with passage of the Affordable Care Act," the California Democrat said in a statement.
In nominating the 48-year-old Burwell, Obama is tapping a Washington veteran with a low-profile and the respect of some Republicans on Capitol Hill. Though she only joined the Obama administration last year, Burwell held several White House and Treasury posts during President Bill Clinton's administration.
Between her stints in the executive branch, Burwell served as president of Wal-Mart's charitable arm and head of the global development program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
If confirmed, Burwell will have to contend with huge challenges related to the continued implementation of the health overhaul, as well as the divisive politics surrounding the law that show no sign of abating.
On the practical side, the administration has to improve customer service for millions of Americans trying to navigate the new system. There's also a concern that premiums may rise for 2015, since many younger, healthier people appear to have sat out open enrollment season.
On the political front, congressional Republicans remain implacably opposed to Obamacare, even as several GOP governors have accepted the law's expansion of safety-net coverage under Medicaid. GOP opposition means Republicans can be expected to continue to deny additional funds for implementation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell., R-Ky., welcomed Sebelius' resignation but appeared to indicate an openness to a dialogue with Burwell, the new HHS nominee — even as he declared that "Obamacare has to go."
"I hope this is the start of a candid conversation about Obamacare's shortcomings and the need to protect Medicare," McConnell said.
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Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Erica Werner in Washington, and John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., contributed to this report.
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FILE - In this Monday, March 4, 2013, file photo, Wal-Mart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, as President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Burwell to head the Budget Office. In a sign that the White House is seeking to avoid a nomination fight, an official said Obama was tapping Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace Kathleen Sebelius, who has resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary. Burwell was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for her current post. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)


Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2014, during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the HHS Department's fiscal Year 2015 budget. A White House official says Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)





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