Everyone has an opinion of ObamaCare but few truly understand the implications. The Affordable Care Act is forcing doctors into; retirement, corporate partnerships or to sell their private practice. Reducing Medicaid payments through reduced federal reimbursements gives physicians zero incentive to treat patients on Medicaid.
Obama’s Broken Promises
We all remember Obama’s promise, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” He used that as a voting mechanism to get elected and he used it as a carrot and stick bait for doctors.
People didn’t get to keep their doctor, specialist or even their insurance plan. As plans were terminated by the federal government because they didn’t meet certain criteria such as birth control, pre-term care or other ridiculous requirements that not everyone needed. Certainly a man in his 60’s should not be forced into a plan that is geared towards a woman and her unborn child. The options disappeared and federal mandates were etched in stone.
As people lost their insurance, they were forced to seek other options. America’s poor was pushed to Medicaid. Medicaid as all government managed programs is a failure. Think – Amtrack, the Post Office, the IRS. All failed agencies.
Literally millions of Americans were forced into Medicaid.
Physicians were offered a financial incentive to treat Medicaid patients. The increase as with all Obama promises was released with an expiration date. Those incentives were only for years 2013 and 2014. We are on the cusp of 2015 and the carrot is gone. The stick now comes into play.
Pushed Into A Corner
Doctors have challenged the level of reimbursement from Medicaid and Obama pushed back. Their financial concerns and building their practice is no concern of his. His push for socialized medicine just went from a walk to a trot and he isn’t looking back. His only concern is to have single-payer become an institution in his dream of the Socialized United States of America.
A study by the Urban Institute estimates that “doctors who have been receiving the enhanced payments will see their fees for primary care, but by approximately 43%”.
Imagine having your incentived pay reduced by 43%. Imagine being forced into the choice of not treating people because they are on Medicaid. Imagine being pushed into a corner by a government so big and out of control that no one can hear you protest. Imagine not being able to run your business effectively because this legislation has hamstrung who you treat.
Dr. David Fleming, the President of the American College of Physicians has stated that it does not make sense to reduce Medicaid reimbursements, “at a time when the population enrolled in Medicaid is surging”.
The carrot of “Free Health Care” and “you can keep your doctor” was penned with severe consequences that affect the very patients that believed Obama’s promise that you can get something for nothing. It is classic bait and switch and people should be used to the broken promises.
How Can American’s Be So Dumb?
Voters got so caught up in the promises that they failed to ask the question, “At what cost?”
They got what they paid for, and now they are stuck with ObamaCare. Unfortunately, so are our doctors and specialists.
The Affordable Care is neither affordable, nor is it about medical care. While American families struggle with high deductibles and the higher monthly cost of insurance, doctors somehow became silent victims. ObamaCare imposed specific regulations on physicians, hospitals and health systems. But I believe that it was also designed to cripple private practices and force everyone else into a corporate conglomerate with “shared risks” and strict penalties.
No one seems to be asking why physician practices have been a political target. They have been forced into using new technologies which allows them to ‘share’ patient data with other physicians and of course insurance companies. That technology is neither cheap, nor is it easy to implement. New technology requires training of staff. Tack on that cost. New technology can force an already stretched office into hiring more people. Tack on new headcount, salaries and the cost of employee benefits.
They have been forced into a little game called Attestation and Meaningful Use. The game includes starts and stops where physicians have to prove to the federal government that they meet the criteria and are ready to move to the next phase. There are fines imposed along the way for practices that fail to meet the criteria. The game sucks and has been poorly implemented by this administration.
Meaningful Use is defined as; using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to: Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities. Engage patients and family. Improve care coordination, and population and public health.
Not all practices use an EHR because a lot of them still use pen and paper to record patient data and a fax machine to transmit that data. It doesn’t matter to the government if those established processes work for a practice. The government is forcing physician practices into this technology under the guise of patient care, and electronic record sharing.
Nobody asked the patient if they wanted their data shared. In fact, more than a few years ago new legislation in the name of HIPAA was implemented. In order to be seen by a physician a patient first had to assign or deny permission for record sharing. We really have no say in the matter and trust our physicians to follow the guidelines after we sign the document.
Imagine a government that loses years worth of IRS emails while a certain investigation is ongoing, being responsible for the care of your medical records. I trust my doctors with my records. I do not trust the government.
Imagine a government that manages the postal system, Amtrak, the IRS and the Veterans Administration – and not a single one of them is efficient and none of them generate money like the UPS, health systems or FedEx.
Remaining an independently owned practice is becoming increasingly difficult. The ridiculous legislation we now call ObamaCare has allowed hospitals and health systems to ‘buy’ physician practices. By joining a hospital or health system, the physician has less to lose because of ‘shared risk’. Shared risk though means they no longer operate independently and must play according to the ‘corporate rules’.
The only good news for physicians is that due to the government’s failure to roll out the technology, they were given a reprieve in 2014. That reprieve came about in the form of a one-year delay which has already come and gone. The delay was pushed again to 2015.
Remaining competitive will force privately-owned practice to try some new things like new marketing techniques to get patients into the office more frequently for wellness visits and routine checkups. The balance between encouraging repeat visits, which benefits through increased revenue is the perceived value and benefit of the patient.
Creating distance from THOSE PEOPLE. It’s an Obama thing.
He learned this tactic very early. His daddy Created Distance and abandoned Obama as a child.
His college classmates. None of those people from his Ivy League schools remembers Obama. Have they Created Distance, or was he never there?
College Professors that he worked with cannot be found. There are no glowing recommendations, fond memories or funny stories from those people. Distance.
I fondly call the people that believe Obama and twice voted him into office – Obama Zombies. Those people believed and embraced whatever he told them while campaigning. Obama ignored them during the 2014 election cycle and they Created Distance. They don’t trust him anymore.
THOSE PEOPLE. The 2/3 of voters that did not vote in the mid terms. Obama said, “I hear you too.” But his clenched jaw displays his inner rage. He blames them for losing the Senate. He blames them for the loss of Democratic Governors in liberals states.
THOSE PEOPLE heard him say, “I’m not campaigning, but make no mistake my policies are on the ballot.” They heard you Mr. President. They didn’t walk away. They ran and hid. They stayed home on election day because you cannot be trusted. Your policies are the reason this country is in such bad shape, from domestic to foreign policies, to our military to our standing in the world.
This is your fault Mr. President. You own the rejection of your own constituents. Gruber calls them stupid, but they are aware. At the very least they have determined that you are a thin-skinned liar.
Obama was a member of Chicago church led by a racist pastor with a vehement hatred for this country. Remember Jeremiah Wright stating, “Not God bless America, God Damn America” – yeah that guy.
Can you imagine disowning the guy that married you, baptized your daughters and oh so carefully conditioned your thoughts – for 20 years? Can you imagine?
Once the truth came out about him, Obama had to disown Wright. He had to minimize Wright as a crazy uncle, and told a Jewish audience that everyone has one in the family. Creating distance.
He was friends – still is, with Bill Ayers. Ayers was the leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground and is a home-grown terrorist. He admits to bombing police stations and to this day admits that he wish he could have done more. Bill Ayers has been to the White House on multiple occasions. He is part of the team that developed and is promoting Common Core. No Distance.
Obama had the audacity to Create Distance between himself and the war in Iraq. One of his campaign promises was to end the War in Iraq, and he did. But when the terrorists began reclaiming the country, Obama denied that it was ever his idea. Creating Distance.
There are people with so much power and influence over Obama that he fears creating distance. People like Ayers, Eric Holder, Valerie Jarrett and Jonathan Gruber are his friends. He chose them and in return, they control him. He cannot and will not create distance.
In fact, Obama invited Gruber to the White House on five separate occasions to work on The Affordable Care Act. In the past week, several different videos have surfaced with Gruber stating that Americans are stupid, that lack of transparency was critical for CBO scoring and they KNEW ENOUGH to get it passed by the Supreme Court.
Obama is now Creating Distance with Gruber because of the political pressure and damning evidence against him as a person and his abuse of power in his position. Manipulating the CBO and the Supreme Court.
That’s a pretty big deal.
Obama has created Executive Orders as a way to force his agenda. He doesn’t want to work with Congress. In his six years as President, he has not ‘reached across the aisle’. Republicans were shut out of meetings for ObamaCare, and not a single one of them voted for it. They knew it would pass. They also knew that Democrats would have to own the outcome. They accepted that Obama had Created Distance.
Democrats running up to the November 2014 mid terms created distance with Obama. He was too toxic, too controversial and his poll numbers were too low for him to show up, virtually anywhere, for anyone. Democrats Created Distance.
Obama has never been capable of defending his decisions. When the sh*t hits the fans, he remains aloof, detached, untouchable.
The American people are now Creating Distance. President Obama was asked at the G20 in Australia about deliberately deceiving the American electorate in order to get ObamaCare passed. He stated,
“I would just advise every press outlet here: Pull up every clip and every story. I think it’s fair to say there was not a provision in the health care law that was not extensively debated and was fully transparent. It was a tough debate.”
Debate? There was no debate. The legislation was not provided to Congress or the American people in a timely manner before the vote was cast. The bill is so thick and so cumbersome that it would take weeks to review. The review did not happen, and neither did the debate.
The President of the United States and leading Democrats worked in collusion with lobbyists to hide information so deep within the ACA bill that not even the CBO could find the truth.
But now we know. The truth is that the bill is a TAX.
The flip side of the truth is that even though the bill is now LAW, it cannot and will not be enforced.
The darling side of ObamaCare is that the bill originated on Harry Reid’s desk and should have been named after him. But Obama wanted the credit and the bill was renamed. It doesn’t matter what he says or does, Obama cannot Create Distance from ObamaCare.
Never in the history of our nation has the leadership been so cavalier, hands off, bored or detached from our foreign or domestic policies. The economy doesn’t matter to him.
Escalating costs for food, transportation and housing don’t matter to him. The job doesn’t matter, or that would be his focus. The problems don’t matter because they don’t affect him personally.
Obama has played 180 games of golf in six years. He has gone on multiple multi-million dollar vacations and frequently flies separate from his family.
While 90+ million Americans remain unemployed, Obama vacations. He has no remorse or guilt because he feels entitled.
The Obama Indoctrination
The people that mentored him told him that he was entitled, so he believes it. He was fed the Socialist Model of Government, brain washed by the teachings of Alynski, Mao, Che, Marx, Hitler and others.
Obama believes that the Socialist model is best for America and stated this is his goal, “My legacy will be an America brought down to the level of the rest of the world.” That’s it.
This delusional man hates American Exceptionalism. He hates our Republic. He hates our Constitution, our Bill of Rights and he hates our Military. He believes that it is his job to disassemble, destroy and forever CHANGE this great country into a third-world country that is dependent on others for money and security.
Things Obama hates
He hates capitalism: “If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
He claims to hate the rich, but he is very wealthy: “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”
He pushes the Socialist model instead of Capitalism: “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” If he uses welfare statistics since he took office, then this chart means he has been successful.
Obama hates gun owners and their support of the Second Amendment. The irony is that he is surrounded every day by men carrying guns – just for his protection. “I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could get shot during altercations.”
Funny, Mr. President. As an “innocent” there have been no discharged weapons by all those scary people that protect you…..with concealed Guns.
Obama is THE WAR ON WOMEN and through his legislation, our tax dollars are used to murder unborn children in our country and abroad (Mexico City Policy). He said, “I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about VALUES AND MORALS. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” So much for values and morals.
When Rick Warren attempted to get a response about the rights of the unborn, Obama stated, “….you know, it’s above my pay grade.” You just can’t make this stuff up.
He Just Didn’t Know
He clearly isn’t engaged with the requirements of his job because he never seems to be aware that something happened until it hits the news. He didn’t “Know” that:
– ObamaCare would force people off their plans even though he had promised, “If you like your healthcare, you can keep your healthcare.”
– The NSA was wiretapping Germany, Angela Merkel and other ‘friends’.
– The ObamaCare website wasn’t tested prior to rollout.
– The IRS was singling out conservative, tea party groups or those considered to ‘disagree with him or his polices’. Pretty hard to believe considering that Jarrett had stated, “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones that helped us will be rewarded. The one who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay.”
– The DOJ was illegally collecting phone records of AP reporters.
– That additional security had been requested by the embassy in Benghazi, but then blamed the deaths of four Americans on a video tape that had been viewed on YouTube seven times.
– Fast and Furious. Just another time that Obama wasn’t engaged with the DOJ and was oblivious to the fact that his administration was running illegal weapons into Mexico. Some of those weapons have been used against our very own border patrol. Some of those weapons have been left behind at crime scenes in Mexico where mass shootings have taken place. But of course our President was oblivious to all of this.
Either he is incompetent, or a liar, or both. Obama has stated that he can’t wait to get out of DC.
It is ironic how the White House holds American parents responsible for what their kids eat, play and work. It’s incredible how they want to be so deeply embedded in our homes and lives that they remain absolutely clueless about what happens in their own home.
The WannaBe Rock Star
In a March 2014 interview with Ellen Degeneres, Obama stated, “If you followed me, most of my day is sitting in a room listening to a bunch of folks in gray suits talking about a whole bunch of stuff that wouldn’t make very good television,”
What he really meant is this: ‘If you followed me, most of my day is sitting in a room listening to a bunch of folks in gray suits talking about a whole bunch of stuff that I don’t understand and don’t care about it.’
That is the reality of this man and the position he holds. He’s bored.
The Media Pass
No matter how outrageous the words that tumble from his mouth, such as the day he took office and stated, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”, he gets a pass from our media. No matter how idiotic, and I’ll use two very dramatic circumstances:
Benghazi: The White House trotted out Susan Rice and she blamed the execution of an American Ambassador and three other Americans on a video tape.
A Malaysian passenger plane is shot down over the Ukraine and they call it a “Terrible Tragedy.” BOTH instances are acts of terrorism, but one is blamed on a video and the other is just a tragedy.
The Border Crisis
Tens of thousands of illegal aliens are pouring across our border and essentially given asylum. They are being shuttled around the country to hide the problem. These people bring diseases that this country hasn’t seen in 50 years, but they are put on passenger planes – WITHOUT LEGAL ID.
They will end up in our public schools. They will end up on food stamps and welfare. But you know what? Obama has refused to go to the border and observe the problem. His reason for not going to the border? He didn’t want to do it for a photo opp.
If fences don’t matter, then lets’ disassemble the fence around the White House. Let’s allow whoever, whenever, for any reason walk up to your front door and make whatever demands they have in that moment. Sir, if fences don’t matter, then yours is irrelevant. The reason: He doesn’t care. Not even a little bit.
This problem isn’t in his neighborhood and these people will never live anywhere near him. He remains sheltered and aloof. In his mind, that solves the problem. Mr. President, even liberals choked on that statement. Everything you do is for a photo opp. Whether you sit in the same position as Rosa Parks, whether you cut in line at a Texas BBQ joint, or you show up at a basketball game.
Everything you do is for a photo opp. Everyone understands at this point that this does not reflect leadership. Liberals may have a hard time calling you a self-center narcissist, but you are. Mr. President and it is exceedingly clear that the only thing you care about is yourself.
Not even interested
You are not engaged with the Joint Chiefs, or our military. You managed to pull troops from Iraq and now the country is falling apart. Your response. Send 275 non-military people to fix it. Seriously?! You are not engaged with Republicans.
You are not engaged with the American people.
You are so far off mark that even liberals are tired of your rhetoric and tantrums.
You blame Congress for not pushing your agenda.
You attacked Supreme Court judges while giving a State of the Union address. That is despicable behavior.
You thought that road trips and backyard barbecues would be the sweet deal that would bring you back into favor with your voters. The voters are tired of your games.
We Aren’t Racist Mr. President: It’s about Character, not Color
Every time you leave the White House because you have time on your hands and don’t want to deal with all the crisis, you tie up traffic, you end up spending tax dollars on security that we don’t have to spend.
We resent you for that because it reflects your lack of discipline, restraint and common sense. We resent that you behave like a spoiled child and demand your way in everything.
We resent that you have learned nothing and are doing all the wrong things for this country.
The Pen
Mr. President, we are broke. Busted. Your economic policies and legislation has spent money into the next four administrations.
You have spent more money in six years than was spent by all prior administrations combined.
You have a pen and the only way you use it is to spend money that we don’t have.
Your own party hasn’t passed a single budget since you took office in 2009. Yet the spending continues with no restraint and no accountability.
The Allegiance with Terror states
Instead of engaging with our allies, you meet with Arabs, Muslims, leaders of countries that would love to see America burn. You bow to foreign leaders.
Mr. Obama, the President of the United States should never bow to anyone, ever. I know that you haven’t grasped the meaning of ‘dignitary’ or ‘statesman’. I realize those two words and the requirements are not in your limited vocabulary. I realize that you much prefer to use the words, “I – I – me – mine”. I realize that you really believe that you killed bin laden because you took credit.
The rest of the world watched that speech and watched you grow smaller and smaller in their eyes. The rest of the world realizes that you are a nobody, a puppet, and you are happy to prove them right in every situation.
Liberals are so Lost
Even CNN, the largest liberal news organization in our country is choking on your statements, and has posted an article by Newt Gingrich, “The tranquillity of Obama’s mind“. Granted the article is by Gingrich, but for God’s sake it’s posted on CNN.
The article brings out your latest fantasy that you are a bear. Mr. Obama, the world has watched you struggle during a workout with one-pound weights.
You are NOT a bear.
Putin is a bear. He invaded Crimea and you did nothing. He or his people are suspected of shooting down a passenger plane. You do nothing. He is working with Iran on a centrifuge. You do nothing. You are not a bear. To put yourself in that league is just embarrassing.
Ignoring Our Allies
Instead of engaging with Netanyahu, you take every opportunity to snub him and tell him that his own people cannot build in their own city, Jerusalem. Instead of agreeing that Israel should be able to protect herself, you demand that the state return to pre-1967, an era that their people were not protected. You think that an 8-mile stretch of land is enough. It is not.
The Tower of Fools
Obama seems incapable of reason, of working on solutions, on partnering with anyone in DC other than Jarrett, Pelosi, Reid and other sycophants that still lick the soles of his shoes. In 2008 people called him; brilliant, a great orator, engaging, a uniter, affable and charming.
They were talking about a guy that had served two years in the Senate and had never owned or managed a company, never met a payroll, never made important decisions and had a Senate record of voting, “present”.
They were talking about a fantasy.
The media jumped on that train and failed to do the job of vetting him. They became sycophants. Leeches. Useful idiots.
In a 2008 interview with Thad Cochran (R-MS) revealed that not everyone in the GOP had total disregard for Obama.
Alec Torres: “But you don’t think — there seem to be some who think it will be a disaster for the country if Obama was elected — you don’t feel that way?”
Thad Cochran: Well, no, I just think he has the personal qualities to grow in the job even though he’s hadn’t had all the experiences that some others have. He has been in the United States Senate, he’s proven he gets along well with people. He’s very affable and charming, wonderful personality, very engaging personally, and diplomacy is a real important part of the job of the presidency, and I think he will do an excellent job in that respect.
The Desperate Media
It would appear that a few news organizations want to stand up straight. They are tired of being bent over and having their behinds covered with Vaseline. They have been told for six years what they can and cannot print.their interview questions are vetted down to the type of underwear that he puts on.
He goes on the liberal talk-show circuit to sell his ideas to the groveling media.
He behaves as if he is the most important person in the room and he’s not. We the People are the most important people.
We the People will crush the Democrats in November 2014.
We the People cannot wait until Democrats present Hillary Clinton as their choice.
We the People don’t believe Hillary’s lies about being broke. Don’t insult our intelligence.
We the People know that Hillary lied about running from sniper fire in Kosovo.
We the people know that she is the worst possible candidate and we will continue to educate the Obama Zombie Voters that she does not represent them.
Hillary is nothing short of Obama with blonde fair.
Back to the Media
They have been threatened, fired, excluded from flying with the press pool, banned from interviews with Obama and they’re getting tired. Oh boo-frickin-hoo. You guys built him up, if you want to do a real story on Obama, then you have to stand on your own.
The White House has taken over the Presidential ‘imagery’. They release photos (photo opps) that they feel are relevant. Nothing is leaked that they don’t approve.
The Irony of a Marine in a Mexican Prison and a traitor in Afghanistan
Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier abandoned his post and his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan to join the taliban.
Bergdahl is a traitor, and you pretend that he is a hero. In your attempts to gain media footing and support, you gave a speech to soldiers and said, “We got him”.
There was no applause, even though there was an “applause break” built into your speech. Mr. President, Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers know that he is a traitor.
They know that he should be locked up. Instead, your team is re-integrating him back into service.
A United States Marine sits in a Mexican prison because he made a wrong turn into Mexico. This Marine, Andrew Tahmooressi had legal weapons in his vehicle and declared them to the border agents. He was summarily arrested and thrown into a Mexican prison. Tahmooressi is a veteran and did two tours in Afghanistan. He deserves better.
Mr. President, where is the justice for this Marine? He’s not a traitor. He made a mistake.
Mr. President, YOU traded FIVE TERRORISTS for Bergdahl – a traitor. You have done nothing for Tahmooressi.
Whatever happened to your statement that, “We leave no man behind”?
I realize that the differences between the Marine and the soldier are vast.
The Marine has served with dignity and the soldier is a traitor. You naturally lean towards and love the traitor.
The Wrong Guy for this Job
Mr. President, you have broken the law. You have refused to enforce the law. You have partnered with the wrong people. You have learned nothing.
Mr. President, you are unfit for duty. It is time for you to put down the pen.
Put down the phone. Walk out the front door of the White House and submit your resignation.
You have proven that you cannot and will not do the very job that you wanted, campaigned for and begged for.
For six years, your administration has blamed George Bush, Congress and the American people.
You have told us to “tighten our belts” while you eat like a king and vacation like a rock star. A very wealthy rock star, whose vacations are funded by American tax dollars.
You have consistently done the exact opposite of what you tell the rest of us to do.
Failed leadership
You have taken no responsibility other than to say, “The buck stops here.” Mr. President if that were true, this country would not be a target.
Our borders would not be under attack.
Our people would be working.
Our economy would be stable.
Our companies would be able to compete.
The EPA would not be crippling farmers or the coal industry or the American people for collecting rainwater.
The IRS would not be allowed to go after groups that don’t agree with you.
The NSA wouldn’t be snooping on my computer.
The DOJ would be enforcing the law, not breaking it, not snooping on the AP and everyone else that disagrees with you.
Our schools would be teaching a real curriculum instead of Common Core and Revisionist History.
Iraq and Afghanistan would not be so unstable. You stated that Afghanistan is a “Necessary War” but you implemented Rules of Engagement that are so restrictive that our deployed military cannot actively engage the enemy. That is traitorous.
ObamaCare would not be law. The humorous part of ACA is that the Supreme Court that you openly humiliated is dismantling your law. It is unenforceable. ObamaCare is over.
The Next Two Years
If you remain in office for the duration of the next two years, you will only get smaller. Your legacy, your history, your policies are already up for ridicule.
Step down now before you do yourself anymore damage. We know that it will take at least two of the next administrations to undo the damage you have inflicted on our country.
The voters have learned their lesson. The First Black President has been a disaster. The pop-star with the iconic blue halo logo has harmed black families and exacerbated unemployment rates for young blacks.
More millennial’s are living with their parents than has ever happened in this country. There aren’t jobs for them.
Your policies have paralyzed companies. They don’t want to spend money on capital investments, expansion or hiring because they don’t know what you will do next to hamstring their growth. More oppressive regulation to punish their success.
We know that the 600 campaign events you have attended since you took office in 2009 are more important than getting this country back on track.
Mr. President, we know that you are bored.
We understand that you think the job is beneath your dignity. We realize that you don’t care about anything or anyone but yourself.
The high expectations of the 2008 and 2012 voters have remained unmet. Their standards were too high and that’s a tough lesson. You have continually met the lowest possible standards in policy, statesmanship and leadership.
Mr. President, the fact is that you never showed up.
Unfit for Duty
Mr. President, ‘leading from behind’ is not leading.
Eight days after you took the oath of office, you were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. You had done nothing to earn that prize, and other people did but were taken out of the running because of you. You accepted the trophy and prize money with more arrogance than is befitting a person of your position.
You should have graciously stated that you were ‘flattered’, but truly unworthy. But you didn’t. You are a soulless bastard and there is nothing that you won’t take from someone else. Nothing.
Mr. President, you have received the award, “Liar of the Year” because you earned it.
It’s over Mr. President. Walk away with the other title you earned this year, “Worst President Ever” and go play golf. Just go away so we can fix the things you broke.
Let’s go back in time for a minute. Say, June 15, 2009.
Remember this promise, “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what. My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: fix what’s broken and build on what works.” That was a lie.
That was Obama in his address to the American Medical Association. It was a veiled attempt to get buy in from doctors that the ACA – Affordable Care Act (aka) ObamaCare. He also promised to “build a health care system that allows you to be physicians instead of administrators and accountants.” That was a lie.
His prepared remarks included this little nugget, “We also know that one essential step on our journey is to control the spiraling cost of health care in America.” That was a lie.
He used cost as the problem, “Make no mistake: the cost of our health care is a threat to our economy. It is an escalating burden on our families and businesses. It is a ticking time-bomb for the federal budget. And it is unsustainable for the United States of America.” That was a lie.
The cost of individual health care is funded by the individual.
The cost of health care through a company plan is funded by the individual.
Medicaid and Medicare are also funded by these same people. We call them, Working Americans.
The people who are not affected by cost, belong to subsidized care; Medicaid and Medicare.
The only way Obama could take over 1/6 of the economy was to use the economy as the threat, “If we fail to act, one out of every five dollars we earn will be spent on health care within a decade. In thirty years, it will be about one out of every three – a trend that will mean lost jobs, lower take-home pay, shuttered businesses, and a lower standard of living for all Americans.”
Today is November 24, 2013. Obama’s failed leadership and understanding of economics has been a disaster in both domestic and foreign policy. He has not passed a budget since he took office, but he wants everyone to believe that he understands the economic impact of healthcare on the economy.
Since ObamaCare became law several things have happened. In fact the very threats he used, “mean lost jobs, lower take-home pay, shuttered businesses, and a lower standard of living for all Americans” is the new American reality.
Of course he dragged Medicaid and Medicare into the speech, “And if we fail to act, federal spending on Medicaid and Medicare will grow over the coming decades by an amount almost equal to the amount our government currently spends on our nation’s defense.”
He claimed that it would “Swamp our federal and state budgets and impose a vicious choice of either unprecedented tax hikes, overwhelming deficits, or drastic cuts in our federal and state budgets.”
The point he failed to mention was that the majority of ACA enrollments that don’t qualify for a ‘subsidy’ will roll into Medicaid. He already raided Medicaid of more than $700 Billion to pay for ObamaCare.
The point he failed to mention was that the ACA site would cost more than $1 per living person in the US. So far, costs have exceeded $600 Billion, and the firm that got the bid is a personal friend of Obama.
So far more than 5 million people that had insurance have received letters from their insurance companies that their policies have been canceled because they don’t meet the new requirements of the Affordable Health Care Act.
What Obama failed to mention that while he was making bold promises to the American public, he was writing legislation that would negate their existing policy. This was accomplished by adding language to THE LAW that added things people in their 50’s don’t typically need such as birth control.
The law was rolled out and conservatives complained, and liberals were compliant. At least until they began receiving cancellation notices from their insurance company.
The Affordable Health Care that Obama promised in 2009 is the biggest joke of 2013. The ACA was his signature legislation from his first term. It will be the downfall of his second term.
The Democrats knew that the website would not roll out as promised, even though they had three years to build it. So, they removed the Employer Mandate in early 2013.
The Democrats now know that the website cannot be fixed.
The Democrats that were in full support of ObamaCare in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and up until the website rollout failed in 2013 now know that their chances of re-election in 2014 are slim and none.
So Obama tried to change the law, without any legislation. He attempted to put it off until after the 2014 elections, hoping that people will forget the pain by then.
He attempted to circumvent THE LAW by extending canceled policies for one year. The problem? Insurance companies were made out to be the enemy. They do not have to extend the policies. Why would they bother to spend the time, money and headache to appease a clueless President?
Current estimates of future insurance cancellations are between 50 – 100 million policies.
Trust me. 100 million angry Americans will not forget the many broken promises when the 2014 election rolls around. The Democrats will lose the Senate in 2014.
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