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Home Front: Politix
‘I Had Nothing to Do With That!’ Obama Dodges Blame For Skyrocketing Premiums
2016-10-21
[BREITBART] President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
offers multiple excuses for why health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket, including blaming Republicans and insurance companies for the problems.

He complains that too many news hounds spend more time discussing premium increases than explaining why he isn’t responsible for them.

"No, I had nothing to do with that," Obama said, calling it "complicated" despite the "hysteria" that was growing.

Obama traveled to Florida to argue that Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
was working well, but needed to be fixed.

During his speech, he pointed out that when smart phone companies released a product that had bugs in it, they fixed it.

"Unless it catches fire. Then they pull it off the market," he admitted, likely referring to the disastrous exploding Samsung Galaxy S7.

But the president argued that companies weren’t trying to repeal smart phones, but rather fix the problems with the modern devices rather than return to rotary dial up phones.

"We’re not going to go back," Obama said, challenging Republicans who repeatedly called for an Obamacare repeal.

The president argued that most people got their health care from their jobs, insisting that Obamacare didn’t even affect their premiums or health policy changes.

"These are decisions made by your employers, it’s not because of Obamacare," he said.

Posted by:Fred

#13  Mine goes up 50% and change on January 1st.

Found out Wednesday afternoon. Hope nobody heard what my wife was saying about potential hillarycare; would have peeled paint off a porcupine.

I really do not know how to make up the difference.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-10-21 16:40  

#12  The proper analogy is not flammable smartphones -- it's dumpster fires.
Posted by: Regular joe   2016-10-21 14:12  

#11  Americans now got free preventive care, free checkups for women, free mammograms, and allowed children to stay on their parents health care plans into their 20s.

No such thing as "free". There is "included in the price" and there is "somebody else is paying for it." That's it. Stoopid is as stoopid does.
Posted by: Bobby   2016-10-21 13:26  

#10  â€˜I Had Nothing to Do With That!’ Obama Dodges Deflects Blame For Skyrocketing Premiums.


fify
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2016-10-21 11:43  

#9  That's the single common denominator of the left...a lack of accountability or sense of responsibility.

They wreck one demographic after another with their do good meddling and when the mess explodes they say their intentions were good...and never admit it was a mistake.

Good Lord, I hope Trump wins and I hope he takes a flame thrower to the left leaning bureaucracy in Washington. We need State, Justice, Defense, Health and Human Services and the CIA gone through with a guillotine and a stack of pink slips...

I've never prayed for an election result but I am now...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2016-10-21 11:34  

#8  You have to be world-class stoopid to believe you can insert a layer of Federal bureaucracy into the process and expect premiums to drop by $2,500.

Or at all.
Posted by: Crusader   2016-10-21 11:21  

#7  You have to be world-class stoopid to believe you can insert a layer of Federal bureaucracy into the process and expect premiums to drop by $2,500.
Posted by: Raj   2016-10-21 11:11  

#6  Hey, bytch, you and your party own it. Even Slick Willy said it was a failure. Hillary says it is a failure when she is using her private (not public) persona according to WikiLeaks.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-10-21 10:42  

#5  The Grand Ipmerial Din'do speaks
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2016-10-21 09:11  

#4  p.s. "Once Hillary is in, and she's in --- we took care of it, you're going to miss me!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-10-21 04:46  

#3  The 'community disorganizer' and Perpetual Warrior speaks, Clinton will be no different. There is money in death, both at the micro (Planned Parenthood) as well as the macro (Planned Nationhood).

Far, far too many 'deplorable' people running around, carboning up the atmosphere. It's all for the best, you'll see.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-10-21 04:41  

#2  "It's not my fault! It's your fault for electing somebody like me!!!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-10-21 04:38  

#1   Legacy? Or eight years of Hope and Change?

Enquiring Minds want to Know.
Posted by: Hupoluth Unusons4998   2016-10-21 03:23  

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