Obama: Stop scaring people by talking about the horrible unintended consequences of ObamaCare
posted at 5:20 pm on July 29, 2009 by Allahpundit
It’s a long clip, capped by his standard insane nonsense about how national health care’s somehow going to reduce deficits, but the fearmongering bit is right up front. Tapper’s been calling him out for months about his rhetorical sleight of hand in saying that ObamaCare will let you keep your current insurance if you like it. Which is true — unless having to compete with a government plan just so happens to drive your insurer out of business, of course. Why is Tapper trying to scare people? Maybe David Freddoso can explain:
In the Senate Democrats’ bill, individual policyholders can keep their coverage, but they will be penalized under the individual mandate as though they did not have any coverage at all. That would be the death-knell of individual policies, says the Heritage Foundation’s Ed Haislmaier. Insurers, he says, “could exit the market entirely.” (The Senate bill is similarly merciless when it comes to employer-based plans that don’t conform with the rules for the planned government-run exchanges. In other words, the Senate bill, unless changed, will force your employer to change your coverage — maybe just a little bit, but perhaps dramatically.)
House Democrats’ bill, on the other hand, would grandfather individual policy-holders. They could keep their coverage and even add dependents over time. But no new individual policies could be sold as of the first year ObamaCare begins.
Under the best-case scenario, grandfathered individual policies would continue to exist until all of their holders die. But in all likelihood, economic and regulatory forces would conspire against them. The worst case would be a collapse of private insurers, but it doesn’t have to get that bad for individual policies to disappear. For example, if enough individual policy-holders are lured away by the subsidies that will be available for policies in the government-run insurance exchanges, insurers might find that they don’t have a viable risk-pool in the dwindling individual market anymore. They could drop out of the individual market, and they will feel more pressure to do so as patients age.
The bottom line: Under ObamaCare, your individual insurance policy is probably doomed, even if it is grandfathered.
Normally this would be where I segue into a discussion of Megan McArdle’s post about white liberal elites exploiting universal health care to dictate lifestyle choices to the unwashed, but that really falls under the heading of intended consequences. Meanwhile, as you start to hear more about the public plan not having the votes to pass the Senate, do bear in mind that the alternative — a “co-op” which may or may not include government membership — is being heralded by The One himself as basically a public plan by another name.
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LimeyGeek on July 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Obama, stop scarring us about our Evil Tonsils!
Upstater85 on July 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM
When will he tell Granny that she will get lots of free meds, but little or no surgical intervention?
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM
obama is a brazen liar.
weewilly on July 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM
These consequences are far from unintended methinks.
Oh, and they’re true btw.
Chaz706 on July 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM
How many private-sector insurance jobs is ObamaCare going to kill?
Missy on July 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM
This needs to be reiterated – this is not about healthcare – it’s about control over the People. Control over our decisions. Control over our lives.
This is about the power to dictate every facet of our lives.
OhEssYouCowboys on July 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Question for Barry: If my tonsils are swollen, inflamed and marked with pus and my doctor wants to remove them, is there a whistle blower hotline number that I can use to report him?
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM
All of them, if he gets the chance.
teke184 on July 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM
If this government takeover is forced on the nation after such overwhelming opposition it is going to lead to a constitutional crisis the likes of which has never darkened our shores.
elduende on July 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM
My thoughts exactly.
Daggett on July 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM
You give him too much credit, AP.
lorien1973 on July 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM
We can create jobs by having a Obamacare Whistle Blowers League.
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I’m still scared because he has a funny-sounding name and doesn’t look like those whiteys on the currency.
So please don’t scare me any more, OK?
guntotinglibertarian on July 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM
It is really stupid for Mr. Obama to say that people can keep their current policy. Most people have what their employer says they will have, if it is cheaper for the employer to change, they will have to change. And I will bet money that in a few years if there is a public option they will switch federal civil servants onto it keep it from going belly up, just like they did with Social Security. Our president lives on spreading fears and fibs.
Cindy Munford on July 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM
From what I understand, any change in the plan – premiums, copays, coverage, whatever – would undo the grandfather clause and likely put you into government clutches.
And “qualifying” plans have yet to be defined, and are certain to include every stupid ass procedure and benefit that members of congress get lobbied for. We have guaranteed issue in my state, as well as community rating (which disallows pricing for risk) – so our healthcare costs are through the roof. I may multiple times what a similarly situated person of my age/health would pay in other states. The government will do no better.
redfoxbluestate on July 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM
ObamaCare for seniors: We’ll buy you aspirin but deny the chemo.
Techie on July 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM
How can Obama claim anyone is fear mongering anything about the bill when there is not one concise bill and even if there were, he knows nothing about what is in it?
myrenovations on July 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Don’t be scared, Missy. Diane Feinstein just sent me an email explaining that Cap n Trade will create millions of new Green Jobs.
See? Everything’s going to be okey-dokey.
guntotinglibertarian on July 29, 2009 at 5:28 PM
REMEMBER: This is the president who said that we could continue to use coal BUT the new laws and regulations would made that endeavor useless. It will be the same for health insurance, and THAT IS SCARY, KING OBAMA!!!!!
mobydutch on July 29, 2009 at 5:28 PM
The new “pre-existing condition” is having your own private health insurance.
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Zing!
lorien1973 on July 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM
That idiot of a president said there were only 46 Americans without health care!
That’s a crisis?
redshirt on July 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM
“If you’re one of the 46 Americans who don’t have coverage today…”
Is that all?
RalphyBoy on July 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM
ObamaCare for seniors: We’ll buy you aspirin but
deny thechemowon’t waste the resources on trying to figure what’s wrong with you.Techie on July 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM
So many commenters here could write hilarious one-liners for the GOP. Is the GOP lookin’ for good talent?
lorien1973 on July 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM
ERRR
ERRR!
This guy makes me disgruntled.
What a “filthy liar,” as highhopes puts it.
His filthy little minions go around sowing the seeds of national destruction.
But Americans know their baseball players, cause that’s all that matters!
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Obama is not a racist. He is a communist. His hate extends to white, black, and brown alike. I used to think he had a huge chip on his pansy @ss shoulders because of imperial white Amerikka’s evil whiteness. Nope. He has a huge chip on his shoulder because he believes Amerikkans are bad people with bad lifestyles.
Obama and his cronies are the scum at the bottom of a latrine.
Aquateen Hungerforce on July 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM
How does CapNTax create “millions of jobs”? I mean, the Michigan state government is spending thousands on radio ads tell me how we will all be making windmills in the future. All of us apparently.
Techie on July 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Take a look at the people behind him… they look just enthalled to be there.
The white guy in the brown suit looks like he’s on-the-nods, the lesbian just off his right shoulder gives a bored sigh 14 seconds into it and the oriental gentleman keeps looking around like he’s lost focus…. I mean… Yada Yada…
CynicalOptimist on July 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM
This man is pure evil and the sooner we realize that fact the better we can understand his horrible plan for all of us. Those who choose to stick there head in the sand and are afraid to say anything for fear of being called a racist GOD help you.
thmcbb on July 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Unfortunately, the good talent is looking for the GOP.
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Another interesting consequence: people with good plans will be essentially indentured to their current employers, so their wages won’t be increasing very fast.
And those people who might be tempted by better opportunities will just sit and rot in a dead-end situation, instead.
There’s a recipe for economic stagnation.
guntotinglibertarian on July 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM
oh, these 46-47 million people? I’m not too concerned about them – most are there temporarily and/or by choice.
gatorboy on July 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM
And football is right around the corner. So much beer to drink, and football to watch, while America becomes just another Socialist cesspool.
OhEssYouCowboys on July 29, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Tonsils? We can fix that. In fact, bring your parents, children, neighbors and coworkers to the nearest healthcare facility so that all those pesky tonsils can be removed. A doctor’s got to make a buck, y’know. And, in performing these (un)necessary procedures, he’ll be paying lots of taxes and thus funding Obamacare. It’s the circle of life. Until you hit about 67 years old, then we withhold care ’til you croak. Guess what? Now social security is solvent, too. Dear Leader is a frikkin’ genius!
trubble on July 29, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I can’t wait to see all the clips of the Townhall meetings members of Congress are going to have…
d1carter on July 29, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Bastards!
a capella on July 29, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Now witness the power of this fully FUNDED and operational HEALTH CARE PLAN
CMonster on July 29, 2009 at 5:34 PM
F8cking pisses me off
PEople know EVERY FREAKING PLAYER AND THEIR STATS
But ask them who the secretary of state is?
They are mute. Cause they don’t fcking know. Cause they are morons.
Morons
we’re a nation of morons
big, fat, wasteful, stupid morons
I’m sick of it
Sick of the commies and all the idiots that let them prance around in all the commie-ness.
UGH
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I’ve thought the same thing for years. Ad agencies so need the talent, but it’s all on HotAir.
shibumiglass on July 29, 2009 at 5:34 PM
If we go commie, do we have to watch soccer?
bloggless on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
He’s really looking pissed-off. Strident.
Sucker is losing it.
guntotinglibertarian on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
With all due respect, f@*k you, pound sand, eat s@#t, and bite me, Mr. President. You disgust me unlike anyone before you.
revolutionismyname on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
It is easy to be flip about this, but this is scary, scary, scary!
I will post this list in as many places as I can to inform people of the Draconian measures being offered to obliterate your freedom.
A Few Highlights of the Healthcare Bill
This gives the government absolute power over your healthcare and how your healthcare dollars are spent (on other people).
Is this what you really want?
Be careful what you wish for.
Before you answer see pages 170, 195, 425 and 429
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participat e in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL America n financial and personal records.
• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restri ct enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
Wow! Talk about political paybacks.
And these are just the highlights. Prepare for absolute government power over your healthcare.
As I said, scary sh!t.
College Prof on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Just hide the final bill from the public. A la Treacher, Trust Obama.
Christien on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
If the salesman tells you the car will get you to the moon and back on a tank of gas, and you buy the car, the judge will ask you where it says that in the contract, owners manual or such.
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This guy will say anything to get his way, and in the end… well, in the end.
RalphyBoy on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I can’t take it
These tools being in power, doing EVERYTHING they can to turn us into a collectivist’s wet dream.
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
F*CKING A
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Kill ObamaCare no matter what form it takes.
Communist health care must die.
darwin on July 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Wow, suddenly this isn’t so funny anymore!
redshirt on July 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Just listen to your local sports-radio, and you’ll hear the voice of America. Hero-worshippers. Jock-sniffers.
Sheep, waiting to be fleeced.
I couldn’t agree with your more.
OhEssYouCowboys on July 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM
He’s taking Larry Summers on tour with him?
Texas74 on July 29, 2009 at 5:36 PM
These freaks LOVE control
They salivate at the thought of it.
I’m sorry, I disagree with people who think it’s out of having a good heart. Liberal politicians are nothing but a bunch of stone-hearted jerks who are doing their best to put us on our Road to Serfdom.
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Can the Congresscritters get away with not having any townhalls? Seems like most will just conveniently be on vacation all month and not talk to any constituents if they can help it.
Missy on July 29, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Yes, I was looking forward to all of these members of Congress hearing from the people at the townhall meetings, but someone just informed me that most of them only show their slimy faces at $100 a plate dinners. Tell me this is NOT true.
mobydutch on July 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM
The passage of Obamacare is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be… Unnatural.
CMonster on July 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM
No, but you have to snitch on your neighbors.
darwin on July 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM
So the plan is to have Obamacare issue insurance policies that must be subsidized by the Federal government to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and private insurance companies can compete right along with them if they want too. In other words, your competitor is willing to lose money offering your product forever and if you wish to stay in business so should you. Boy, that sounds like a market people are just itching to invest in.
Fred 2 on July 29, 2009 at 5:38 PM
46 Americans don’t have coverage? Let’s all chip in a penny or two, then Barry can stop talking about them.
Christien on July 29, 2009 at 5:39 PM
+10000000
Upstater85 on July 29, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I go insane thinking about it.
I can’t deal with it
People try to talk sports with me, but I feel like I’m hearing classical arabic — I don’t understand it.
“Yea, man, and he’s pitching 5-0 this year”
Yea, and Obarfy is trying to enslave us through medical entrapment.
BIG DEAL!
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I’m not even sure he’s lying.
With all the yakking he does, he’s had to time to actually look into the bill (written by a completely different branch of government) that he keeps making promises about.
I think that he may simply be operating under the delusion that he knows what he’s talking about.
Tuning Spork on July 29, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Yes, I also think so but what form will it take? This is an intrusive strike deep into personal lives, and when people start dying for lack of, or sub standard care, there will be a lot of anger. If one of my family dies because of this I’m out for scalps.
a capella on July 29, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Deny care, or not, every trip will cost Uncle Sugar money. The admin costs alone will break every single household in America. So what to do if it passes?
I don’t know about you but I’m making appointments to have my moles looked at…one at a time. Every pimple is suspect. Every spicy burrito, a heart attack. Every ingrown hair, fibermyalgia. Why not? If they bring this war on me then I’m honor bound to use every weapon at my disposal to defeat them, even their own. They are going to make me broke anyway, I might as well contribute to the Fall of the Barry Empire if I can’t contribute to the American Dream.
Limerick on July 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM
No, it will cause a revolution — hopefully a peaceful one… starting in 2010.
We’re already in a constitutional crisis, with an out of control president appointing unaccountable czars and with no checks and balances. Only a revolution can restore that venerable document. Starting at the ballot boxes.
TXUS on July 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Barry Obama, lying sack of sh!t.
mchristian on July 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM
when you force everyone to participate (taxpayers), there’s plenty of ways for them (insurance companies) to make money at it while shifting the losses over to the ‘government option’ It’s a win win for the govn’t and the ‘big bad’ insurance co’s.
total pile of stinky dung for medical practicioners and patients
gatorboy on July 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I say we all become hypochondriacs and bankrupt the system.
sherry on July 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Yes, I also think so but what form will it take?
guntotinglibertarian on July 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM
College Prof on July 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Can you link that source?
You freaked the shit out of me.
redshirt on July 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Note as well that unions and members of congress (all federal employees, for that matter) ARE EXEMPT.
You’d be cautious of a chef that didn’t eat his own cooking; beware of the bureaucrat that won’t use the healthcare he delivers for you.
redfoxbluestate on July 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Obamacare for seniors- A pine box/casket full of Soma but once the pills are gone, climb into the box and you’re shovel ready, period.
Monica on July 29, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Gotta run.
Time to watch Triumph of the Will again.
guntotinglibertarian on July 29, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Sick, or not, it’ll be nothing but queues. That’s what Socialism is – queues for luxuries like bread, milk, cheese, state-owned, one-room apartments and aspirin.
OhEssYouCowboys on July 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Take your anger out on the fat, corrupt bureaucrat that handles your cases. Take his/her scalp.
darwin on July 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM
This lying sack of sh!t needs to stop lying at his Kabuki TV appearances.
Seriously, once we get him out of office, lets kick his marxist a$$ out of the country.
BillaryMcBush on July 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Stop scaring everybody?
Barry, irony is a dish best served cold.
drjohn on July 29, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Give the commies the west coast … fence it off from the rest of America and guard it with the military.
They can give themselves as much health care as they want.
darwin on July 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM
I’m afraid this adiminstration is already creating the machinery to make sure that doesn’t happen. I am so angry at the corruption and deceipt that is currently what we call leadership that I am begining to succomb to the thought that peaceful may no longer be an option. God help us, I hope I am wrong.
HoustonRight on July 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Talk to me after my free unicorn and Skittles arrive, Barry.
Christien on July 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Stop proposing terrible health care legislation Himmler!
daesleeper on July 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Obama: We are going to need everyone in this great country to work together to keep Andy Sullivan from having bareback anal sex in San Fransisco.
Upstater85 on July 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM
nah
i want a full court conservative press on the entire nation
in 2010 we need to hit the lefties in ANY and EVERY seat that even has some semblance of instability
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
does this bill force all medical practicioners to participate in the plan and exclude all ‘non-approved’ methods of payment?
i.e. can a Doc give uncle sam a middle finger salute and still run their business? Similar to how some doc’s right now refuse to work with insurance companies and are cash-only?
gatorboy on July 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM
84% of Americans are satisfied with their health care. Obumbler and pelosi will not be happy until that number flips.
jukin on July 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Soylent green is senior citizens!
shibumiglass on July 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Ooops… said great. So un-Obamalike.
Upstater85 on July 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
I thought only George Bush and Dick Cheney scared people?
Knucklehead on July 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM
gosh you are so racist
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
why do you hate muslims?
blatantblue on July 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Why punish people that worked a lifetime to get to a position where they are comfortable with their doctors.
Wouldn’t it be easier and far cheaper to just open a string of regional medical clinics to serve the uninsured?
*If someone is denied coverage for a preexisting condition the government can offer a rider to cover the preexisting problem.
I don’t think any US citizen that needs care should be denied but this one for all and all for one socialist ideal will kill the current state of health care delivery.
*One of the evil aspects of the House proposal is to force doctors to report their investments to the government health Czar.
Why? To keep them from forming private, for pay or barter based clinics.
It’s not going to be enough for Obama to kill off our current plans, he wants to prevent you from paying cash to get the best care possible.
Under this scenario Senator Kennedy would not have been able to shop out his brain cancer to Duke Hospital specialists, he would be on a list, a list likely including persons with alien status.
FireBlogger on July 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
“Nobody’s talking about a government takeover of insurance! I’m tired of hearing that!”
“I’m tired of hearing that!”??? Is it me, or is Barry sounding more petulant than usual?
Then, he goes on to describe a complete government takeover of insurance companies by listing all of the things they won’t be “allowed” to do. And, all of the things they won’t be allowed to do? Those things just happen to be all of the things that allow insurance companies to make a profit.
Goodbye, private insurance. It was nice while it lasted.
jana on July 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM
He’s scared.
Christien on July 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
The Sickening Lying Socialist Commie would throw this
country into a panicking mud eating mass for his own selfish power.
Need a real cleansing in the whitehouse.
Texyank on July 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I think he mainly does that in Provincetown.
myrenovations on July 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM
redfoxbluestate on July 29, 2009 at 5:43 PM
“Beware the chef that wont eat his own cooking.”
Now there’s a timeless adage worthy of Mark Twain, Will Rogers or Ben Franklin. Outstanding! Had you heard that before or did you come up with that one all on your lonesome?
Tuning Spork on July 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
All the more reason to hope he doesn’t catch something else in SanFran and spread it on…
Upstater85 on July 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
That would be fine, except I’ve lost quite a bit of confidence in us winning elections. ACORN and the dems literally steal elections and the Republicans need to fight harder than they do. They need to fight as dirty as the left does but too many Republicans either don’t know how or don’t have the balls.
Just the number of people whining and moaning over calling the democrats “socialists” made me sick. Here they are trying to nationalize and socialize everything yet we have people too worried about what others might say if we dared call them that.
I’d prefer we call them communists myself.
darwin on July 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Come to think of it, didn’t he say he didn’t want to run the car companies either?
redshirt on July 29, 2009 at 6:01 PM
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