“We will keep this promise to the American people”
They are the stuff of legend. They are not debatable. They were etched in stone. They’re ironclad. There is no wiggle room.
They are the promises, the guarantees, that Barack Obama made to America about Obamacare.
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You can keep your plan.
My wife, the syndicated San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, has learned that at least 500,000 Californians may lose their health insurance next year — and that’s a conservative estimate. From her Token Conservative blog:
According to this link as of December 2012, there were 491,977 covered lives in individual health care plans regulated by the state Department Insurance that are not grandfathered under the Affordable Care Act. (If they bought a plan after March 2010, their coverage is not grandfathered.) This is a 2012 number, but if the number of people with private coverage hasn’t changed much in the last ten months, that’s half a million Californians who will lose their coverage.
Between 7 million and 16 million will be losing their health care plans at a minimum.
You can keep your doctor.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH)– In the midst of major changes in health care, UnitedHealthCare has sent thousands of pink slips to Connecticut doctors.
Termination letters went to physicians caring for Medicare patients. Those letters were sent out to doctors caring for ‘Medicare Advantage’ patients. It’s a plan, marketed to Seniors to provide additional services through UnitedHealthCare.
A mix of primary care and specialty doctors are affected by it. And it comes at a questionable time.
Open enrollment for Medicare starts next Tuesday, and it’s still not clear at this time as to which doctors are still in the United network.
The Connecticut State Medical Society is fighting back. The biggest concern is patient access to healthcare.
Health care premiums will go down $2500 per family per year.
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Your costs will go down 3000%
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The truth: No they won’t.
Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don’t like what they see.
These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the healthcare market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years.
Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama’s signature legislation.
Obamacare- it’s not a tax.
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The truth? It IS a tax.
It will take 28 minutes to sign up.
Uh, nope.
CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has been trying for two weeks to sign up for ObamaCare.
Unfortunately as she reported on Monday’s New Day, despite trying for fourteen days including at hours that were claimed to be “off peak,” she still hasn’t been able to establish an account.
Getting insurance will be “as easy to get as “a plane ticket on Kayak.”
LOL
These were the promises. These were the covenants Barack Obama made with the American people.
“We will keep this promise to the American people”
Period.
“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.
Period.
If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.
Period.
No one will take it away.
No matter what.”
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No matter what.
Barack Obama is not just a liar, he is a God damned liar.
Two and one half years ago I wrote this:
It is entirely reasonable to assert that whatever Barack Obama says, it will be false. It is entirely reasonable to assert that one can count on the exact opposite occurring.
You are an idiot if you take him at his word.
Ever.
And if you voted for this malignancy, you should forever be stripped of your right to vote, because no one is going to cure you of your freedom to be the stupid idiot you are.
When does someone stand up and ask
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Sadly, we already know the answer.
UPDATE
The White House admits Obama lied.
UPDATE
It just gets worse.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
@Scott in Oklahoma: #25
Richard wants to know how many PhotoShopped pictures DrJohn made, but has never said one word about all of the ones the propaganda media have made. Why not?
@Nan G: #31
Why is congress letting obama do things like this? Why aren’t the republicans stopping him from changing the law? Are there any REAL republicans left in congress? If so, where are they? Why aren’t the members of the republican party contacting YOUR representatives and asking them why they are doing what they are doing?
@Redteam: #47
I just took the words of the oath that each president takes, and changed it to fit the democratic philosophy.
For anyone who has been paying even half attention over the last few years on the ACA, this is not news, nor is it any kind of a shocking revelation. If you’ve been paying attention at all the administration has continually said that you will be able to keep your existing health insurance plans PROVIDED they meet the minimum standards requirements of the ACA. This has been repeated for years, so if you are just now waking up to this bit of news, then you haven’t been paying any attention at all.
The simple fact of the matter is, many Americans may have had health care plans but they were absolute dog crap; basically worthless policies that enriched the insurance companies and allowed them to get away with providing virtually no service. The whole point of the ACA is to provide REAL health care coverage that has merit and substance to it. Yes, the costs will be higher for those who had the junk policy plans because know instead of purchasing a 2 cylinder clown car with no doors and seat belts, these folks are trading in for a real car with a real engine, seat belts and reliable transportation.
This whole article is written and phrased in such a way as to propose that there was some secretive, hidden switcheroo planned by the administration, and that is simply not the case. There are plenty of facts and sources documenting this and if you’ve not been sleeping under a rock, you would know this. Of course, the GOP/Teabag fringe nuts will latch onto this with their never-ending conspiracy theories, and just like all of the other theories before this one, are nothing but junk and are meaningless.
The ACA brings real health care to Americans, many for the very first time ever. Now, who wants to challenge this bit of information? Go on and bring it, because what I’ve posted are the absolute facts. End of story.”
Smorgasbord
on 51 YES
I was wondering why the Congress does let it pass
@This one:
You been buying a lot of oceanfront property, This one?
I challenge you to furnish one quote from anyone that put that ‘qualifier’ on the statement, If you like your policy, you can keep it PROVIDED they meet yada yada………. Greg has already cleared all that up anyhow stating that if you want to know what Obama means you don’t want to listen to what he says. Greg said that no reasonable person believes what Obama says is what he means. (and I can furnish a quote for that).
@This one:
Let’s see if I understand you. Everyone is entitled to drive a Cadillac whether they can afford it or not. If they can’t afford one, sit on their butt and let someone else pay for it for them. Okay, I’ll go along. Obama lives like a millionaire on the taxpayers dime. I’ll sit on my butt and wait for you libs to send me my several million so I can live the same way. Where am I going wrong?
And yet you say that the statement ‘if you like your policy you can keep it is not what they meant’. Sounds like a planned switcheroo to me.
@Richard Wheeler:
Still sticking with ‘Cards in 6″?
@This one: #53
Please give us a link to ONE video or statement where obama said this YEARS AGO. This is something new that has been added AFTER people found out that they aren’t going to get to keep their doctor or insurance. I’m curious: Are you going to get to keep your doctor and insurance?
The difference now is that the owner of the clown car got to CHOOSE what kind of car they drove, and what extras it had on it, and what kind of insurance it had on it. One example is that I always choose the highest deductible, which gives me a lower premium. The obamacar is just like in Russia: You get very few choices of vehicles, they have few luxuries, and they break down often. To be a truck driver in Russia you need to be a trained mechanic.
I was one of the Tea Partiers at the capital the day before congress voted on obamacare. The politicians were working on the bill into the night, then voted on it the next morning. Did you forget that the republicans were locked out of the room while all of the bill writing was going on? Nothing secretive could be going on just because NO republican was allowed to have anything to do with writing the bill, could there?
You mean like ALL of the illegals, and their families if they are allowed to come into the country like the politicians want them to? They are trained how to apply for welfare and Social Security. Some illegals are getting a bigger Social Security check than I am, and I paid into it all of my working life. When you start getting SS, will you feel good that illegals are getting a bigger check than you are? There is more money going out than going in, and expected to go bankrupt in a few years. Let’s not forget that obamacare is stealing $700,000,000,000 from SS, so that means it will go bankrupt a lot sooner now.
If I am correct, I just did. You make it so easy. You need to put up smaller targets.
You don’t know how to post facts or good links, and I’m guessing that this isn’t the end of the story for you.
@ilovebeeswarzone: #54
For years I have said that congress has been infiltrated. Now the presidency has been. Look for things to get worse, not better.
@Redteam: Just like I said “The Red Sox could win and beat the odds” I’ve noticed you’re a very selective reader and you love to make stuff up. A trait of the radical Far Right.
A couple of my indie friends get huge laughs when they read your stuff. I think you (collective) are a great boost to the Dems. IMO it’s the radical right, embodied by folks like you, that are primarily responsible for the election and re-election of Barack Hussein Obama.
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Re W.S. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.
My Senator is Mike Lee.
Congressman is Chaffetz.
I can’t believe they will let this stand.
BTW, the White House . gov might want to up date this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform/healthcare-overview
2nd paragraph reads:
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!
It’s only because of the ”health care law,” that so many plans are forcing people out.
See……
All you men ”need” maternity, birth control, abortifactants and such.
All we older ladies, too.
Oh, and folks with no children or grown ones?
They still are required to pay for pediatric care!
@Richard Wheeler:
There are plenty of pictures of him, especially during the first campaign where he was subtly flicking the bird . – and he still does it. You can watch previously videos on youtube and watch him do it. the man has no class whatsoever and has besmirched the oval office .
RICHARD WHEELER
I notice that you love to make STUFF UP,
a trait of the radical FAR LEFT,
a couple of my friends have a big laugh reading your stuff,
It’ s the radical Left, embodies by folks like you,
that are responsible for electing AND RE ELECTING BARACK HUSSAIN OBAMA,
I HATE THAT STINKIN DIRTY LIER OBAMA I HOPE HE SUFFERS LIKE THE REST OF THE PEOPLE HAVE BECAUSE OF HIM HE IS A FILTHY LIER AND NOT EVEN A MAN
@ilovebeeswarzone: Could you be a little more original Ms. Bees. You’re better than that.
Enchanted I accepted Dr. John’s explanation of the picture. The origination of the picture is still in question.
@Richard Wheeler:
Here’s a host of them, Rich
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=obama+middle+finger&qpvt=obama+middle+finger&FORM=IGRE#a
Note especially this at about 20 seconds in
Here is the link to the particular picture in discussion
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_VfafPpStro/UlSxxu1MQdI/AAAAAAAAz_g/8xvGcbJEH0k/s400/middle_finger.png
@Richard Wheeler:
And more:
http://tinyurl.com/kw4ejud
@DrJohn: Thanks Dr J. I particularly enjoyed the picture of “W” exercising his 2nd digit–er 1st amendment rights. Who was that meant for?
@Richard Wheeler:
Now Rich, about that photoshopping….
@This one:
I’ll post this in every thread you bring your “facts” in.
January 3, 2008
OBAMA: And if you already have health care, then we’re gonna reduce costs an average of $2,500 per family on premiums.
February 19, 2008
OBAMA: And if you already have health insurance, we will lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year.
February 23, 2008
OBAMA: And we will lower premiums for the typical family by $2,500 a year.
March 1, 2008
OBAMA: We’ll work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year.
March 13, 2008
OBAMA: And cut the cost of a typical family’s premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
March 14, 2008
OBAMA: And if you’ve got health care, we’re gonna work with your employer to lower your premiums by $2,500 per family per year.
April 20, 2008
OBAMA: If your employer does offer you health care, then we’re gonna work with your employer to lower premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
May 3, 2008
OBAMA: I also have a health care plan that would save the average family $2,500 on their premiums.
May 30, 2008
OBAMA: And reduces every family’s premiums by as much as $2,500.
June 17, 2007
OBAMA: And cut the cost of health care by up to $2,500 per family.
June 27, 2008
OBAMA: It’s time to bring down the typical family’s premium by about $2,500. And it’s time to bring down the costs for the entire country.
August 6, 2008
OBAMA: A system where we’re gonna work with your employers to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
August 17, 2008
OBAMA: And if you already have health care, then we’re gonna work with your employer to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
September 6, 2008
OBAMA: Here’s what change is saying to people who already have health insurance and the employers who are providing it: We’ll work to lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.
October 4, 2008
OBAMA: We will start by reducing premiums by as much as $2,500 per family.
October 7, 2008
OBAMA: We’re gonna work with your employer to lower the costs of your premiums by up to $2,500 a year.
October 15, 2008
OBAMA: The only thing we’re gonna try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed on to you. And we estimate we can cut the average family’s premium by about $2,500 a year.
@DrJohn: All of em?? I thought that was a Texas salute.
@Blake:
No, no, no.
We don’t want that. First, it’s wrong and second, you’d end up with a martyr.
There are plenty of videos of Obama sneakily giving the finger to opponents during public events.
I know he did so while referring to Hillary during the 2008 primary.
I seem to recall him also doing so during his meeting with Dems and Reps on healthcare which included a reaming of Obama by Paul Ryan a few years back.
I think that photo might be a screen capture from one of those (or one of the other) incidents.
But, let’s say it was a photoshop.
So what?
Figuratively, Obama is giving the finger to all Americans who liked their medical coverage before his O-Care began to take effect.
@Blake:
Time for Curt to break out the Ban Hammer. You’re an idiot.
@Aqua:
Yup
@Richard Wheeler: 61
Yes you did say that, and you also said: “Cards in 6”. I was just asking if you’re sticking with that. Slope is a little slippery for the Cards now.
Are you insinuating you are not a ‘selective’ reader? Quote anything that you ‘think’ I ‘made up’.
True and I think I might have heard her warming up last night.
@Richard Wheeler:
You have friends in Indianapolis? Next time you point them to something you and they think is humorous, point me there also, I like to get a laugh now and then. Most libs are about as funny as I’d imagine a chapped ass might be.
@Richard Wheeler:
What does Obama have to do with Texas, it’s a Kenyan salute.
@Redteam:Try to keep up. Doc and I were discussing “w” photos.
Abbreviation for Indianapolis would be Indy. You get enough sleep?
@Richard Wheeler:
Not true, you were attempting to insinuate that W used the middle finger salute as O does, but Doc wasn’t buying, no discussion.
Are you saying ‘everyone’ abbreviates Indianapolis as Indy? Do you have an ‘official’ list of approved abbreviations that are available? You get all signed up on Ocare yet, or are you on Medicare?
RW, sides all that, there was only one photo (a couple views of same incident)of W, and hundreds of O. Not very comparable would you say?
@Redteam: If you think Indianapolis is ever abbreviated indie, go back to school or visit Indiana. Or check with our resident Hoosier–Greg.
Bush was wearing a grey suit in one picture and a blue suit in another—Texas salute and proud of it RT
Note Romney’s middle finger salute was characteristically emotionless.
@Richard Wheeler:
Greg knows not the truth, even if staring him in the face. But then he’s a lib, so that’s what we’ve come to recognize as the standard.
Which school were you in that covered the abbreviation of Indianapolis? I don’t remember that being covered. Was that in Geography or in political science?
And which school covered suit colors? Apparently none because you couldn’t discern that it was the same setting with the same green (well, with your color problem, it might look red or something) plant in the background.
I saw on the News where the Cards plane had difficulties (kinda like the Cards did) and the players had to wait on the tarmac for hours. The Fat Lady was continuing to warm up in the background.
@Richard Wheeler:
Was that at the meeting with Obama?
By the way RW, schools today are using the Libs version of Education and there is no incorrect spelling of anything. If anyone makes any effort, they get full credit for being correct. So do you believe in your system or do you not?
@Redteam: You say Boston in 7. ck back Well, you were smart enough to predict Obama’s win in 2012. Do you still have Senate 56R- 44D IN 2014? I predict a 50-50 tie.
Ten lines below Bush in grey suit is Bush in blue suit with no plant in background. Your eyes as bad as your spelling? Can’t possibly miss that middle finger salute in 2 separate settings.
I can see YOU excelling in any school, lib or otherwise, where you don’t need to know how to spell or differentiate colors.
Don’t you find this whole discussion rather ridiculous? I’m going to the gym.
@Richard Wheeler:
One thing I’m sure of is you’ll never know a better speller than I, regardless of what school I did or did not attend.
Actually I’m going with Boston in 6. Wacka is losing this one.
and ’08, when you don’t run against an opponent, it’s hard to lose.
Approximately. and you said: ” Don’t you find this whole discussion rather ridiculous? I’m going to the gym.” That’s the way it is with libs. You can’t have a serious conversation with them. When they clearly admit that when Obama say’s “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” does not mean “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” That it really means, ‘we are lying to you’.
@Redteam:FYI That would be Cardinals’ Rookie phenom Michael Wacha. Don’t bet against him in game 6. ENJOY GAMES 6 AND 7
Exit question Is being a great speller while utilizing spell check any different than being a great orator while depending on a teleprompter??
@Richard Wheeler:
Hard to answer that question because while I do know a great speller, I don’t think I know any great orators, Reagan might have been the last one I remember. Being a great speller and a great typist is not the same thing. I can type approx 60 wpm, but sometimes one of my fingers is faster than others and the letters show up backwards on the screen. When that happens a little squiggly line shows up under the word, but that only occurs if the word is actually misspelled. Sometimes when letters are reversed, it still spells a word, though it might not be the one you intended, and surely you know when posting from a smartphone, the text often has a mind of it’s own. Obama puts far to many ‘you knows’ into his TOTUS speeches, Lord knows how many he puts in when off the cuff. Do you know any ‘great orators’ that use ‘you know’ as frequently as Obama?
I don’t bet on sports games, or the players in them. Are you saying you don’t know who Wakka Wakka Wakka is? I expect Boston to win tonight, but I’m not ‘betting’ on it. Odds are in their favor, but games aren’t determined by odds. They still use the score to determine winners, and they can’t fake runs like the Dims can fake votes.
I’ve been thinking of raising the number of seats gained in the election by Repubs drastically upward. I didn’t really understand how big this Obamacare fiasco was going to be. Even several Dim governorships that were considered safe may be on the slippery Dim slope now. I’m sure you likely are busily revising your numbers downward.
@This one: this one says end of story…..you are a story… a fool jester that thinks he is all knowing because he thinks so …. fool that can not see father than his nose
@Richard Wheeler:
RW, are you sure you spelled ‘phenom’ correctly? Seems as it was spelled ‘Lackey’ tonight. Seriously, not to take anything away from Wacha, he is a great pitcher, just wasn’t his day and time. That has a lot to do with outcome of ball games. Sox played great.
@Redteam: Congrats to The Sox. A great team, in one of America’s greatest cities.
Roger L. Simon makes an interesting point related to liberals and morals, especially Obama:
Interesting.
And, it successfully explains a lot.
It shows how easily Islamism and Marxism zip together, as is seen in modern-day Islamist government like the MB, Iran and Osama bin Ladin’s al Qaeda.
I received a letter stating my health plan was cancelled and for 58% high premium I can have a new obama care plan. The new plan has nothing I would use… nothing! I had a great quality plan, now it is just a more expensive plan. Is this america? Fire Obama!!!!!
@Mike: #95
We can’t fire obama, but you can fire any democrats you have in congress so that we have a republican house and senate. All three of Idaho’s politicians are republican. I also see a lot of states voting in republicans. Just like Windows Vista sold a lot of Apple computers, so will obamacare sell the republican party if the republicans will sell themselves properly.
Hitler’s health insurance is cancelled
My video says the above, but way funnier!
Cheers,
O.V.
so the man are cover for maternity check
and the woman are cover for prostate check,
who said that the USA did not evolved?
SO DON’T THINK A MAN HIS OBESE,
HE MIGHT BE PREGNANT
Opinonated Vogon
YES VERY FUNNY,
it show how HITLER was afraid of the JEWS,
because he knew they where more intelligent than him,
that’s why he try so hard to exterminate them
just like the MUSLIM HATE SINCE MANY CENTURY,
AND WISH TO KILL THEM,
thank you,
Great Post!