Democrats Jumping The ObamaCare Ship?

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Techs are trying to fix the ObamaCare website but as they fix it they find more and more problems…and what do vulnerable Democrats have to say about it?

You got 53 days before all bets are off:

At the pleading of senior White House officials, Senate Democrats are holding off on demands to delay major aspects of the health care law until the Obama administration has the opportunity to fix the website problems that are thwarting enrollment in the program.

…Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who attended a tense two-hour meeting with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday over the issue, stressed that senators should give the administration just “a little bit” of breathing room. …

Already, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) is preparing legislation to extend the enrollment period beyond March 31, and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has offered a bill to allow consumers to keep their existing coverage. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) unveiled bipartisan legislation Thursday with Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) to delay for one year the penalties if consumers do not comply with the individual mandate. Unlike Shaheen and Landrieu, Manchin does not face reelection next year. …

One senior Senate Democratic aide predicted that no action on the law would be taken before the end of the year but added that all bets are off if the problems extend into 2014.

How many of you think this will be solved by then? How many more stories about all these cancelled polices will come out between now and then?

After the Virginia race which was much closer then ever imagined because of the ObamaCare debacle I’m betting many of these Democrats will be jumping ship sooner rather than later.

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@retire05: #31
I wonder how many of them will be losing their medical insurance, and be forced on obamacare. I don’t feel sorry for ANY of them, or anyone else who kept wanting obama.

@Redteam: #45

I’m one of those that believe it was designed to fail.

I’m one of those who believes the whole democratic party’s design now is for the USA to fail. I don’t keep track of stuff like this, but is there ONE democrat program that was designed to help the people that actually helped the tax paying people?

SMORGASBORD
HE SAID HE WOULD CHANGE AMERICA FOREVER IN 5 DAYS FROM THE START,
NOW YOU DON’T RECONIZE THE REAL SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE,
PEOPLE ARE ANGRY INSTEAD OF CREATIVE FOR THEIR SUCCESS,

@Smorgasbord:

There were a few republican politicians who actually read the original proposed bill, and they said from the beginning that most of the people would be dropped off of their present insurance, and have to go on obamacare. That tells me that it was planned as a single payer program from the start, just like obama said he wanted.

There were some that were quite clear in their intentions to destroy the private health care insurance industry and go to a [government run] single payer system prior to the enactment of the ACA. That is the ultimate goal, and anyone who doesn’t see that is blind.

If obamacare stands as a tax, then the bill is voided, because ALL revenue bills must originate in the house, and this originated in the senate. I suggest all concerned citizens contact their federal reps and ask them to VOID obamacare for that reason.

I agree the enactment process was unconstitutional. But even though voters marched on D.C. and gave elections to Republicans in record numbers, in both the federal, and the state houses in 2010, the water of the Potomac is an exotic elixir that seems to cause adults to lose all common sense.

Why isn’t the republican party doing this? Could it be because there is no longer a republican party?

Because there are two sides of the GOP now, Smorg; the old guard establishment side (McConnell, Boehner, McCain, Graham, pushed by Karl Rove and Grover Norquist) and the young guns (Paul, Lee, Cruz and a few others) that are in battle for the hearts and minds of the conservative base.

Little by little, drip by drip, the Democrats have worked to destroy the private health care insurance industry. There is virtually no market for that industry in the over 65 age group, when people should require health care insurance more than ever. Why? Because the Democrat Congress passed a law that makes Medicare your primary insurer once you reach 65 and if you do have secondary insurance, it is only required to cover the difference between what Medicare pays and what is considered “Reasonable and Customary”, limits set by the AMA which was in bed with Democrats.

Now, Obama is pushing a program called “Smart Growth” which is simply an Agenda 21 plan to shove more and more people into the metropolitan areas.

How do you control the masses? You control their actions; where they live, what health care they get, what they are allowed to eat and drink, how much water can their toilets hold, how much power they are allowed to use with smart meters, how much they can make with progressive tax rates, all to redistribute the wealth for a socialist utopia that will not work, has never worked where ever it was tried and only leads to the deaths of millions.

I know the liberals don’t like that kind of system, because we are all supposed to be equal.

The difference between the progressives and conservatives is that conservatives believe in equal opportunity. The progressives believe in equal outcome. But there really is no such thing as equal outcome as there will always be the select few who have to run the programs that guarantee equal outcome and they, themselves, will be exempt from the rules. Name one Communist country where the ones running the show (the elite) does not live better than those they control rule.

@retire05:

Retire – I agree with the general thrust of what you are saying with this little caveat. Progressives don’t believe in equal outcomes at all. That is the smokescreen of emotional propaganda they use to try to fool the uneducated, the weak-minded, and the lazy – who prefer to wallow in envy of those who work hard and earn, rather than get off their duffs to earn for themselves. Your point that the rulers of communist nations clearly are wealthier than the masses for whom they pretend to care demonstrates that point.

Obama is a despicable, lying piece of filth. He spent money trying to barricade open air monuments during the sequester and closed down tours of the White House – yet managed to maintain his golf schedule and travel all over the place spending tens of millions of dollars per trip – all while crying crocodile tears over the alleged economic horror of the government shutdown.

Leftists are nothing but parasites. They are completely untrustworthy. The sheer hypocrisy of them claiming to care about the poor, while forcing a system of enslavement and dependency to leftist bureaucracy, will ensure them their own special spot in hell.

IT’S AN OBVIOUS FORCE TAKEOVER OF FREEDOM OF AMERICANS,
YOU CAN KEEP WHAT I ALREADY TAKEN OF FROM YOU ALL,
AND EMBRACE MY OBAMACARE, TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE INSURANCE ABUSIVE FREE MARKET WHO ARE RIPPING YOU,
he portrait them like thieves, so to get the people in his website,
it never pay to step on another to raise above them,
he think he is talking to 3rd world countries citizens,
it.s not for him to steal the insurance busines from those who
honestly know their business from years of of working at it,
AMERICA DON’T NEED A DICTATOR, TO TELL THEM HOW TO LIVE,
THEY ARE A FEW STEPS WAY UP ADVANCE TO OBAMA,
AND THEIR TOLERANCE IS PROOVING IT, THEY WENT TO THE MOON DIDN’T THEY?

RAND PAUL
GO GET THEM MEDIAS MSNBC ACCUSING YOU , THEY ARE CONSTANTLY LYING
SO TO KEEP WHAT’S LEFT OF THEIR READERS,
WE KNOW YOU ARE THRUSTWORTHY, THAT’S WHY YOUR WORDS ARE MORE CREDIBLE THAN THOSE SCREW UP
LIBTARDS,

If you get even $1 in subsidies, you only need to pay O-Care premiums for 9 months to get the rest of the years’ worth of coverage!
Yup.
Read the WHOLE O-Care bill.
It’s in there!
Section 156.270 gives three months of free health care to subsidized individuals who choose to default on their premiums.
There is NO PENALTY for doing this, either!

A few blogs are starting to notice this:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/11/10/deadbeats-to-prosper-under-obamacare/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3089655/posts?page=4
http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/09/obamacare-leaves-doctors-on-the-hook-for
http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/66572518079/obamacare-includes-provisions-allowing-deadbeats-to
http://www.debatepolitics.com/health-care/177558-buy-1-month-get-3-free-obamacare.html

What a killer of personal incentive this bill is (as are all things Obama).

There’s ”no evidence” that ObamaCare is costing full-time jobs……but….
Cover Oregon, the state health-care exchange, is hiring hundreds of temporary workers to process paper applications.
Two reasons why Oregon hired 400 part-timers as opposed to 250 full timers.
1. No ObamaCare coverage if a worker is less than 30 hours a week.
2. This way the workers would be paid for by the exchange’s emergency backup budget and would not cost any extra money.
http://www.koin.com/news/oregon/cover-oregon-hiring-400-temp-workers

@Smorgasbord: “If the government really wants to insure we have a decent retirement, all they have to do is to pass a law says that each person will start an individual retirement account, and can’t touch it until a certain age, death, or serious illness.”

Not an option. A) It makes too much sense. B) The government doesn’t get their hands on the money. There’s even a move afoot for the gov’t to take over your 401k and dole it out to you a bit at a time (minus their cut, of course!), just so they can get their hands on that pile of cash, too.

Obama is a damned despicable liar. He cannot be trusted. Period.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/09/obama-to-cantor-in-2010-8-to-9-million-americans-will-lose-coverage/

“The 8 to 9 million people that you refer to that might have to change their coverage — keep in mind out of the 300 million Americans that we’re talking about — would be folks who the CBO, Congressional Budget Office, estimates would find the deal in the exchange better,” Obama said to Rep. Eric Cantor at a February 25, 2010 White House summit on health insurance regulation.

That is Obama admitting that his “If you like your plan/doctor, you can keep them” was KNOWN to be a blatant lie.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/07/207909/analysis-tens-of-millions-could.html

WASHINGTON — Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that tens of millions of people actually could lose those their policies.

If you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep your plan. Period,” Obama said as he pitched the plan, the unqualified promise he made repeatedly.Yet advisers did say in 2010 that there were large caveats and that anyone whose insurance plan changed would lose the promised protection of being able to keep existing plans. And a report in 2010 said that as many as 69 percent of certain employer-based insurance plans would lose that protection, meaning as many as 41 million people could lose their plans even if they wanted to keep them and would be forced into other plans. Another 11 million who bought their own insurance also could lose their plans. Combined, as many as 52 million Americans could lose or have lost old insurance plans.

So now you should realize (if you didn’t already) exactly why Obama unconstitutionally delayed – without appropriate legislation to allow it – the employer mandate of obamacare until after the 2014 elections. If the government estimate in 2010 was that 69% of employer insurance policies would be cancelled because of obamacare requirements – thus throwing an estimated 41 million people onto the obamacare (nonfunctioning) exchanges – you can be damned sure it will end up being a much higher set of numbers. Having that happen prior to the 2014 elections would have led to a massacre of leftists in November.

Caught in the firestorm of his broken promise, Obama on Thursday apologized.“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,” he told NBC News Thursday evening. “We’ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this.”

So when someone repeatedly, stridently, unamibiguously and caught on multiple videos states unequivocably that “if you like your plan/doctor, you can keep them. PERIOD….” we have crystal clear evidence – not to mention the surprisingly frank (though dismissive) admission of guilt by the perpetrator in chief – that such comments are never, ever to be considered truthful, reliable or based in reality when being uttered by a leftist.

There is no defending what Obama and his leftist cabal of thugs have done with any shred of integrity. The entire obamacare structure is based on absolute lies. It cannot possibly accomplish what Obama lied about when bamboozling the LIVs before he was elected. Hell, for a ‘signature’ policy of his (mis)administration, the fact that the healthcare.gov rollout was so glaringly incompetent Obama sure doesn’t seem all that worried about obamacare failing – rather illustrative in light of the proven comments from him, Reid, Pelosi, Schakowsky and multiple other leftist scum – that the ultimate goal is the complete socialist takeover of medical care in this country.

Anyone who continues to support obamacare is either too stupid to understand the inherent failure of the structure, or is one of the evil progressives quietly cheering the pending obamacare collapse in favor of their dystopian collectivist medical system nightmare.

@Smorgasbord:

The ones who worked there long enough are getting higher retirement checks than their paychecks. Imagine retiring and having to live on MORE money than you were getting while working,

But, they were apparently well managed. What about those in places like Detroit, they will only get a small percentage of what they were supposed to. It’s a shame that the retiree’s are being penalized because of who they elected. I’m sure that the crooks thought the good times wouldn’t end.

@retire05:

Name one Communist country where the ones running the show (the elite) does not live better than those they control rule.

Absolutely, even in the Soviet Union, there were billionaire’s and I assure you they didn’t have smart meters on their houses to limit their electricity. Do you think Al Gore’s huge mansion is going to have a smart meter? Not likely.

@Redteam: Absolutely, even in the Soviet Union, there were billionaire’s and I assure you they didn’t have smart meters on their houses to limit their electricity. Do you think Al Gore’s huge mansion is going to have a smart meter? Not likely.

Or a home of Obama?
Remember when he first took over the White House?
David Axelrod said, ”He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there,” of how hot Obama kept the Oval Office!

Yes, ”candidate” Obama read the teleprompter constantly about the need for energy conservation and limits on the use of fuels that produce so-called greenhouse gases.
But ”president” Obama went the other way, as if he never heard one word out of his OWN mouth!
Months later, after this story broke, Obama added this:

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080517/usa/us_vote_745

“Leadership?”
Does Obama even know what that word means?

@Nan G:

“Leadership?”
Does Obama even know what that word means?

He doesn’t need to, he has puppeteers for that.

#49 –

When politicians keep coming up with more ways to give OUR SS money to people like the illegals, it is easy to see that they no longer care about WE THE PEOPLE. They only care about getting votes.

Yes and THAT is too frustrating…I don’t even know if our Politicians know how much they screwed this country up….I do know however, that they know how much they are screwing the American People though…

@retire05: #54
I agree with everything you have said. As I have said different times, look at what happened to countries who used to be free, but are some kind of dictatorship now, and you will see the same things happing to the USA now.

I am not a conspiracy type person…however since it has come to a very bright light that
the President is indeed a Liar…and we are finding out every day just how much of a LIAR he is…I just wondering when people are going to start wondering if indeed he WAS LYING about WHERE HE WAS BORN….and the whole birth certificate thingy…

….Surely in light of what has been found out lately about him telling Lies upon Lies upon LIES….this is really no longer a ‘far fetched’ thought now is it??

@proof: #60

There’s even a move afoot for the gov’t to take over your 401k and dole it out to you a bit at a time (minus their cut, of course!), just so they can get their hands on that pile of cash, too.

The drive also includes IRAs. The idea is to guarantee you at least a 3% return on your money. In other words, a MAXIMUM of a 3% return.

Government wants your 401(k)

Now Obama wants your 401(k)

I haven’t heard any liberals defending obama’s right to take their 401(k)or IRA money.

@Pete: #61
In one video, obama ended his “keep it” statement with, “…no matter what.” That promise starts at the 11 second mark in the below video. I would like the liberals to explain what they think obama meant when he said, “…no matter what.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ezk22OVt9Q

@Redteam: It is obvious that the managers of Galveston County cared more about their employees than the politicians did. Could they have seen the possible problems with the way Social Security was set up, and that it still left ALL of the decisions up to the the federal politicians?

@Nan G: #64

“Leadership?”
Does Obama even know what that word means?

OBAMA DEFINITION

leadership
You doing everything I tell you to do, even if I don’t do it myself.

@Smorgasbord: .

I would like the liberals to explain

Smorg, I’m not a lib or a secular progressive, but I’m gonna tell you what I think he means: he means: Do you see my lips moving, then you know I’m lying. I don’t think you’re gonna find anyone, including libs to dispute that.

@Smorgasbord: The libs (actually communists at the time 1936) set up social security as a way to tax the workers to get more money to spend on advancing communism. But, I’ve been drawing it for 11 years and I’m satisfied with the deal I have. I paid into it for 48 years and have been drawing on it for 11 years. I draw as much or more each month as I actually paid in in a full year back in the ’50s, but that was the deal, they didn’t know how long I was going to live. Many people pay in their whole life, my father for one, and never drew one dime out of it. It won’t go broke before I die, but I doubt my children or grandchildren will ever get much out of it.

@Smorgasbord:

: It is obvious that the managers of Galveston County cared more about their employees than the politicians did. Could they have seen the possible problems with the way Social Security was set up, and that it still left ALL of the decisions up to the the federal politicians?

Here is an excerpt from a NYSlimes article about the Galveston County Plan, known as the “Alternate Plan”:

“In a hypothetical calculation, Mr. Gornto said, an employee who earned $25,000 annually for 40 years could retire with a 20-year payout of $2,297 a month under the Alternate Plan. Under the same circumstances, an employee making $125,000 annually could retire with a payout of $11,490 a month.

Social Security benefits change depending on the yearly adjustment for inflation, the year of retirement, and the age of the worker. But at a maximum, a worker who retires in 2011 at age 66 could receive $2,366 a month in Social Security benefits.”

The problem with the equation between the Alternate Plan and Social Security is that the example of an employee who earns an average of $25,000/yr for 40 years will receive a payout of $2,297/month but in order for someone to get a monthly Social Security payout of $2,336 they would have had to be a top earner, who earned more than the amount that was taxable.

Also, with the Alternate Plan, the retirees are allowed to take a lump sum if they choose. They can also leave the balance in their accounts to their children, as an inheritance, just like any other investment, unlike Social Security which goes back to the government. It’s not a redistribution of wealth plan, it’s a real retirement plan.

@FAITH7: #68
I am one who needs PROOF of something before I decide one way or the other concerning any issue. It took me a long time to decide what I did. Please read the below articles, then decide what you believe:

OBAMA’S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE

From A to Z: What’s wrong with Obama’s birth certificate?

OBAMA IS USING SOMEONE ELSE’S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
NOBODY HAS DENIED THIS, NOT EVEN OBAMA

Obama’s Social Security Number challenged

Obama’s Social Security number goes to court

HIS SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION IS A FAKE

Sheriff Joe demands Obama draft registration

One story I read said that he is known not to drive. This makes sense. Illinois didn’t allow illegals to have driver’s licenses until recently. Next time he is in Illinois, he can get one.

When Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference to tell what his Cold Case Posse found out about obama’s birth certificate, no major media showed up: Not even Fox News.

@Redteam: #73

Do you see my lips moving, then you know I’m lying. I don’t think you’re gonna find anyone, including libs to dispute that.

Even the propaganda media the libs have been listening to have realized that obamacare is going to take away their insurance, and the government is going to decide on their care. Some of them might have found out that the death panels that Palin and others mentioned are in the bill. You have to read the bill to find out what is in the bill. A group of people, who will never see you, will decide on your treatment, if any.

I think this was the propaganda’s media’s wake-up call. I don’t see them going after obama on any other issue, because that would make them look like complete idiots, because they went along with everything obama said, or it would make them look like one of obama’s propaganda machines. Either one would be true.

@Redteam: #74

It won’t go broke before I die, but I doubt my children or grandchildren will ever get much out of it.

I try to encourage younger people to start their own Wroth IRA. I have been drawing SS for three years, and know that if I could have put the amount I paid into SS, into an IRA instead, I would have several million dollars to live off of.

The Galveston County TX employees who worked there long enough are getting more money in retirement than when they were working. Try to imagine that.

@retire05:

And yet again, another shining example of how inefficient and wasteful the federal government is when it comes to managing money. Just imagine this contrasting set of outcomes with regard to medical care delivery, private system versus what is coming once the national socialists take over medicine here.

@Pete:

Pete, when you ask a liberal/progressive to name one federal agency that is run as efficiently as the private sector counterpart, they can’t give you a legitimate example. If a health care insurer ran in the red, consistently, like Medicare it would soon be put out of business. If there was the waste, fraud and abuse in the private sector as there is in the federal government, all those CEOs would be giving interviews through the bars of their cells.

Obamascare will be no different. Bureaucratic fat cats will get rich, and the taxpayer (not the leech) will pay, and pay, and pay. Just look at the Obamascare website itself, given in a no-bid contract to a company that donated millions to the Obama campaign and who one of its head officers is a close personal friend of Moochelle Obama.

So what happens when more than 50% are living off the dole and less than 50% are picking up the tab? What happens when Americans say “Screw it” and move themselves, and their money, to greener pastures or tax havens outside our borders. When there are more irresponsible people than responsible people who are paying into the federal coffers to support the losers, that system cannot but fail.

When it takes a person almost ten years to just break even on what they paid into Social Security, what is their incentive to pay into a system like that?

@Pete: #79

Just imagine this contrasting set of outcomes with regard to medical care delivery, private system versus what is coming once the national socialists take over medicine here.

Sounds like the makings of a good scary movie.

FAITH7
they are all scare of the MAFIA UNIONS running the business ,

@retire05: #80

Just look at the Obamascare website itself, given in a no-bid contract to a company that donated millions to the Obama campaign….

The company has been awarded another government contract. I guess they need something else screwed up.

@Smorgasborg#76 – I have read those… After all the ‘many’ terrible scandals and debacles… starting with fast and furious…on up… to the Obamacare LIES….with the media covering them up…with this administration covering them up…Smoke and mirrors…deflection…deflection of ‘blame’…anything but the Truth right?

The latest as we all know is that the President Lied over and over again to the American people regarding this healthcare law. Again, anyone with a brain has to stop and analyze what has happened up to the point where the president lied 36 times…then lied about lying?!?!

…and really THINK…this cannot be the FIRST time this Man, this Administration, has out and out LIED…they were practically caught LYING regarding Benghazi…and again the Media…the Administration is covering it up…smoke and mirrors…and ‘we’ are just stupid…really?? Hundreds of people through social media has called them out…and they STILL Lied or deflected blame …this is not ‘normal’…none of this is ‘normal’

Left or Right it isn’t normal behavior on the part of many people in Washington and the media…including social media..

I just have a ‘gut’ feeling this latest lie isn’t the first but one of many HUGE LIES…there is something ‘lingering’ in the background and sooner or later that “something” is going to come out and rear it’s ugly head… and has got to give way to the truth…

Then I pray to God people will come to their senses…

So, for now I will just wait to see if this Birth Certificate thing will rear it’s ugly head again…who will fan the flames and perhaps the ugly truth will finally come out….none of this is “far fetched” anymore…

Then once again I can regurgitate that the TEA PARTY was RIGHT!!!

@FAITH7: #84
As I have mentioned several times, I am lousy at history, but if anyone with an open mind will look at how other countries were overthrown, some without a shot being fired, and compare those events to what is going on in America today, they are EXACTLY as they have been for other countries:

(1) obama wants a civilian security force as strong as the military.
(2) He is spending us into bankruptcy.
(3) He doesn’t want us to have guns.
(4) He wants to change the constitution.
(5) He is friendly with countries that hate us.
(6) He is friendly with Muslim countries.
(7) He is turning friendly countries against us.
(8) He wants other country’s laws to be used in our courts.
(9) He wants to sign different treaties that turn a lot of US authority over to the UN.
(10) He wants the public on government medical care so his people can decide who is take care of.

For those of you who follow the history of other countries (even you liberals), does any of the above sound familiar with any country that used to be a free country, and is now a dictatorship of some kind? These are just the ones I can think of now. I will let others add more if they want to.

Smorgasbord@#85 – I agree with you and with your List 150%. When the Ofraud gave his speech in which he wanted to “Fundamentally Change America” more than a few eyebrows should have gone up… A compliant media didn’t ask for further explanation…. and millions of voters drunk on the “The Won” didn’t even WANT an explanation or further details !!! No One (except for Conservatives) gave a rats ass what he meant…after all he is the first half black candidate so who cares!!!

Your list gives 10 parts of that “Fundamental Changing of America…”

Now, part of that “Fundamental Changing of America” (OfraudliarinChief Care) is smack in their faces and millions are none too happy about it…

This is going to be a very expensive lesson for the stupid among us who voted for this fraud TWICE…

The TEA PARTY was RIGHT!! Conservatives were RIGHT!

@Smorgasbord: Smorg, I did some figuring a couple days ago, and I started paying in ‘the max’ each year in SS, in 1954 and paid the max in every year through 2002, and that totaled up to $89,000 plus my employer paid in the same amount. That does not count the medicare payments. Can you imagine how much that would be if all it had been put into my personal stock market account? I don’t know, but even if I had to pay all my medical expenses now, I’m pretty sure I would be a rich person without costing the government a dime. Have the socialists got it all screwed up, or what?

@retire05:

When it takes a person almost ten years to just break even on what they paid into Social Security, what is their incentive to pay into a system like that?

05, if you see my numbers just above, I paid in a little over $89 000, in my 48 years of paying into SS. If you double that (employer paid) it is $178,000. My wife and I have been drawing on it for 11years, and have drawn about $330,000 (that’s a rounded number)(if you include what I pay toward basic medicare it would be about $345,000), but imagine how much I could be getting if it had all been a private investment. I don’t think SS is a good deal, but then I get a good monthly payment for my wife and I.

Redteam
you got it right
bye

@FAITH7: #86
As I have mentioned different times, when obama said he wants a national civilian security force that is as strong as the military, I knew right then what he wants for MY country. Since NO republican has questioned obama on this, or his fake documents, or many other issues, I have to believe they are a part of the plan to change America.

How many politicians belong to one or more of the questionable organizations I have heard about? Every politician should have to list ALL organizations they belong to, or have belonged to.

@Redteam: #87
As Clark Howard said, if a 15 year old will put $2,000 per year in a Wroth IRA for just 7 years, then leave it there, at age 65 they will have $1,000,000 in their account. That is from just $14,000. Starting early is the key ingredient. Parents should start their kids early.

I talked with a guy who said that the only thing he did that his dad told him to do was to put 30% of his check into a retirement account, and he retired at age 50. I have talked to several people with similar stories. I wish I had heard of the philosophy of what I call, “working for retirement”. We can choose to live the better life as we go through our working career, or after we retire. Most of us have to adjust to a lower income after we retire because we didn’t, “work to retire”.

The two main things I try to teach the youth, (1) Get the best education for what you want to do. A college education may not be needed for what you want to do. (2) Figure on Social Security not being their when you retire. Put money away now so you can retire at an age you choose.

Robert Lasjewski: “Oh, I think about 80 percent of people in the individual health insurance market will ultimately lose their insurance because of this.”

I think you’re full of hot air, Bob. I’m guessing most of that 80 percent won’t ultimately lose their insurance. They’ll ultimately have different insurance. Which, btw, won’t be subject to arbitrary cancellation at the convenience of the insurance industry. Just how much security did you imagine there was in being a customer group of one? You did realize that the industry routinely cancelled individual policies that began to be to costly to honor, correct? They can’t do that any more. I’m guessing the insurance industry isn’t especially happy about such changes. Hence, Bob. A refreshing change from the republican Benghazi hoax.

How many of you think this will be solved by then?

By the 2014 elections? I’m guessing most of the current problems will be solved. Maybe I’m wrong. Place your bets, folks.

How many more stories about all these cancelled polices will come out between now and then?

How many more do you think can FOX News can crank out?

@Greg: #92

Which, btw, won’t be subject to arbitrary cancellation at the convenience of the insurance industry.

Would you rather have a bankrupt government decide what kind of medical care you get, or if you get any at all? In Canada and other countries who run their own medical programs, an elective test that a doctor wants to take can be a 9 month wait. By then, if there is something wrong, it has had 9 extra months to get worse. How long will it take under obamacare? Doctors and hospitals are dropping out of it.

Canada also does a constant analysis. If it costs too much to treat a patient, they don’t get treated. I have read many stories over the years where family members complained that the system just let there loved one die. It’s one thing to die protecting your country. Are you willing to die because it would cost your country too much to keep you alive? It has been found out that in the obamacare bill there are people who will try to convince you that it is better to commit suicide than to cost your country as much as it would cost to keep you alive. It has been rumored that they were there, but the ones who ACTUALLY read the bill say they is in the bill, along with the committee who will decide whether to treat you or not without even seeing you. Do you trust your government enough to let them make that decision for you? I don’t, and I never will.

Remember the woman who has stage 4 cancer, and her insurance company has no maximum, and they have paid 2-3 million dollars on her, and would pay millions more, except that her policy was cancelled because of obamacare? Will obamacare pay the millions more to treat her that her private insurance company would have?

Shouldn’t you have a CHOICE whether to leave a private insurance company or sign up for obamacare? If your insurance company hasn’t told you that yours will be cancelled, just wait. If yours is under your employer, they will have to decide whether to keep the plan AND pay the penalty 6% or 8% penalty for not signing up. Do you think your company will do that? If they do, and the competition doesn’t, then your company’s products will be 6-8% higher than they were before, and your competition’s will be at the same price. Will customers pay 6-8% more for your companies products?

Smorgasbord
HE kEEP SAYING HE DOES IT TO HELP THE UNINSURE THE POOR.
wait when he Put all the illegals in his insurance ,
with the young he want them healthy and working to pay for the other one,
AND WAIT AFTER A FEW YEARS MORE ILLEGALS,
MILLIONS MORE, coming in for free healthcare,
yes that will change AMERICA FOR EVER,

@ilovebeeswarzone: #94
I think the illegals are covered in obamacare.

Smorgasbord
I never heard anything concerning the illegals on obamacare talk from obama publicly,
and just now a republican said there is about 500 web sites false who are trying to get people to sign in
their fake websites,
and like I said wait till he raise the price in next years after years to come,
AND REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA TOLD THE INSURANCE COMPANIES TO STAY SILENT AND NOT GET INVOLVED,

@ilovebeeswarzone: #96

AND REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA TOLD THE INSURANCE COMPANIES TO STAY SILENT AND NOT GET INVOLVED

That’s just normal Chicago Way stuff.

How many Dems spoke out against Mitt Romney after just ONE family lost its health coverage at a company Bain Capital took over?????
Remember?
It was the Soptic family.
Now, approximately five million Americans have had their insurance plans cancelled.
And the same folks screaming bloody murder over the Soptic family ordeal think it’s no big deal.
One family was a tragedy.
Five million families is a statistic.

No wonder Dems are jumping ship off of ObamaCare.
Obama is, too.

@Nan G: Excellent point! Pity the ones who need most to hear it (and be embarrassed by it) would never acknowledge it.

So had Romney won the election (The ACA) AKA Romneycare would be ok? It is and has been working fine in Massachusetts for 5 years, And from what I hear reps love the part D laws they passed that was a bigger mess than the ACA website but you have a problem with the ACA law? Hmmm, does anything work in your world? I don’t see why you hate half of America and pass that hate around to everything in it. You even hate each other. The truth is the old heartless murdering insurance factory needed to die, it did nothing but suck the money out of everyone and gave crap back… but you seem to like that… I dont get it.