Whenever Barack Obama tells us that something “can’t be done,” take that as prima facie evidence that his heart isn’t in it.  Because when something really can’t be done that he wants with all his flinty, black heart, he’ll pursue……

OBAMA: No. That’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you…

If that’s truly how you feel, Mr. President, then how do you reconcile that with your goal of wealth redistribution? Before you answer, remember that you were the one who just championed individual responsibility.

On a related note, I remember a while back hearing some compare Obama to Reagan, saying he is The Great Communicator. I think it’s more like “The Great Prevaricator.”

The SEIU is already trying to organize healthcare workers throughout the nation…and they’ll succeed, when they get card check and there is no real vote by workers.

Wanna bet Acorn will have their hands out to help the less fortunate enroll in Obamacare?

Hey Luke, what’s your dirt doing in the bosses hole?

More movie quotes on this? There’s got to something from Dr. Zhivago, Alec Guinesses character must say SOMETHING like this – oooh but we have to be quiet about that. People won’t think we’re …

“Using a dictionary makes your argument weak.” – B.Obama 2009

you can choose not to drive and thereby do not have to purchase auto insurance. That’s the BIG difference. With Obama care the only thing you can choose not to do to not have to purchase it would be LIVE.

katablog.com on September 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM

And auto insurance’s role is to protect people from drivers who can hurt you. Health insurance is protecting you from yourself.

Also, auto insurance doesn’t cover gas & oil changes, or new rims and paint, or even a new transmission when the old one goes bad. It only covers a catastrophic event.

I’m just sick to death of our President acting like the buffoon (that is an act .. isn’t it ?).
Clearly he doesn’t even know what’s in these bills, so obviously none of these bills are his plan, which remains as amorphous as ever in a permanent state of “vaporware“.

Obama’s inability to put pen to paper to communicate his plan really makes one wonder if those rumours of Bill Ayers writing Obama’s books are true.

You and I are both paying $900, on average — our families — in higher premiums because of uncompensated care.

Does that make sense? For the most part, my insurance company is negotiating better than “average” or “standard” reimbursements for care. I understand the idea of hospitals passing on the costs of those who can’t pay, but I’m pretty sure I’m not paying much for it in my premiums. I know I am with some of my charitable donations and with part of my tax money though.

batter on September 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM

you can choose not to drive and thereby do not have to purchase auto insurance. That’s the BIG difference. With Obama care the only thing you can choose not to do to not have to purchase it would be LIVE.

Steve Z on September 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Well said!

Proof? we don’ need no steenkin proof.

I am coming to the conclusion that nothing we have done to date has changed minds in congress over this impingement of our civil liberties and economic freedoms and therefore Americans must prepared to shut this congress down as was done in Tennessee after the governor and legislature proposed to vote in and approve a state income tax in 1999. Go to glennreynolds.com/?p=8 for some details.

With the reported 26,000 TEA Party organizations in our great country, we could make life difficult for those cloistered in DC.

For all of those saying that he’s going to tax us, in his eyes that isn’t true, because it’s a fine. Not a tax but a fine. It’s 2 words spelled totally different and mean 2 different things. I have a feeling this is what the White House is thinking fine not a tax.

What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase.
People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I’m not covering all the costs.

Even Obama’s car insurance analogy doesn’t hold up. People are required to get LIABILITY insurance if they drive on public roads–meaning they are insured if they kill or injure someone ELSE with their car, or damage someone ELSE’s car.

People are NOT required to get COLLISION insurance, which covers damage to their OWN car in an accident which is their own fault. This is a person’s own free decision, whether or not the value of their own car is worth the price of collision insurance, and people with older, less valuable cars tend to drop collision insurance. People also have the choice of not driving a car, and therefore not buying car insurance.

State governments require auto liability insurance because driving a car can endanger other people, who need protection if one person’s irresponsible driving injures another person. But how does a person who elects not to carry health insurance endanger anyone else, unless he/she gets a contagious disease?

Besides, if someone gets hit by a bus, isn’t that person’s emergency care covered by the bus company’s liability insurance?

Obama SHOULD be an expert at this–how many people has he thrown under his bus?

First, this is absurd. Rising prices are now a “tax” when it comes from a private-sector industry raising its prices in response to rising costs associated with technological advances and demand outstripping supply. However, when Obama and Congress intend to hike energy prices by $1761 per household per year through direct government intervention into the energy market, that’s not a tax?

But Ed, remember that refinancing your mortgage is “like a tax cut”, so it all balances out.

Given the number of statements that are just plain wrong, I’m actually starting to wonder if the President is actually a moron. Surely he can’t be so addled that he thinks these things are true, can he? Increasing premiums are a tax hike, profits come off the top, I can get $4 trillion in savings by slowing cost growth… These were not remarks made off the cuff, they were prepared. And so I must ask:

Is he really that stupid, or does he just assume that everyone else is? I don’t know which answer makes me feel better, frankly.

e-pirate on September 21, 2009 at 8:59 AM

Be altruistic, put up your own capital and start a non-profit insurance company. Don’t expect me to pay for anything.

Health care premiums went up 5.5 percent last year, at a time when the rest of the economy, inflation was actually negative. So that is a huge bite out of people’s pockets.

Ugh yeah sure it is. If you exclude those items that nobody buys like food and electricity.