LOL wrote: Why does anyone pay any attention to the garbage coming out of Reid, Pelosi or Obama's mouth?
Liars?
You mean like the ACA penalty/fine is not a tax? You mean like you can keep your current health plan and doc, PERIOD.? You mean like the ACA won't increase deficits? Or that health insurance (er health care) premiums are going down not up? You mean like this law will achieve 100% Universal coverage? Or that these gov't health care exchanges will be convenient easy one-stop shopping with lots of competition driving down prices, instead of insurers bailing out of lots of them and they are costly and buggy and insecure and bureaucratic boondoggles worse than the MV office?
"Irked at the gall of Republicans in using the Democrats' votes for health care against them, liberals have discovered a plot that is even more sinister: the GOP is using "anecdotes" (i.e., the stories of people who have been hurt by the measure) in an effort to take the Left down.
By "anecdotes" they mean stories like the those of Edie Littlefield Sundby, the stage-four cancer patient who can't keep her old team of physicians; the parents who can't take children to the hospitals at which they were formerly treated; the people having trouble paying their premiums; or the story related in the Wall Street Journal on Monday by Stephen Blackwood, whose mother, also suffering from a rare form of cancer, can no longer get access to the medicines that have kept her alive.
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This isn't quite what the Left had expected. Last year, Obamacare-a-war-on-bros.html">Jonathan Chait mocked the frustrated quest of the Right for Obamacare victims, as the only ones likely were selfish rich people, and "neither the medical specialist nor the hospital executive nor the upper-income taxpayer quite offer the politically sympathetic face of the Everyman struggling under Obama's socialist boot."
This was in June. Since October, conservatives have been overrun with sympathetic and lovable Everymen of every description, leaving liberals and their flacks in a war to contain them, culminating in the assault on a leukemia patient in Michigan, where Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters threatened the license of any television station that runs an ad daring to mention her woes. But this was a problem that the Left has created in forming a plan to fund new enlistees by squeezing the middle in money and coverage. Its mistake was in thinking that those hurt wouldn't notice, or, failing this, wouldn't care."...
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman uses his perch at the New York Times to argue that Obamacare is doing just fine, and conservative doomsday predictions won’t come true. Conservatives, knowing this, Krugman writes, are “groping toward a new strategy, one that relies on highlighting examples of the terrible harm Obamacare does. There’s only one problem: they haven’t managed to come up with any real examples.”
Oopsy:
These claims are contradicted by the same news outlets, in some cases, that employ the people making the claims.
For example, if Paul Krugman read the paper he writes for, he would have heard about Mike Horrigan, a lifelong Democrat and a former Obamacare supporter. As the Times wrote in December, Horrigan’s “coverage by a state high-risk insurance program was eliminated, then replaced by a more expensive plan. His wife’s individual plan was canceled for being substandard, then suddenly renewed — also at a higher price.”
The Times also brought out the story of Barbara Meinwald, whose temporary plan with fewer doctors would cost her $5,000 more a year. “Meinwald also looked on the state’s health insurance exchange,” Anemonia Hartocollis writes, “but she said she found that those plans did not have a good choice of doctors, and that it was hard to even find out who the doctors were, and which hospitals were covered.”
