“Countless constituents have contacted my office regarding the negative effects ObamaCare is having on their health care, their businesses, and volunteer service organizations. Despite the president’s repeated promise that ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it,’ more than 800,000 New Jerseyans will no longer be able to keep their plans. Yesterday, I was hopeful that the president would finally agree to delay the implementation of his health care law, but instead he offered a ‘fix’ that is nothing other than a lifeboat with a hole in it. As so many of us feared, Obamacare is just not fixable. The American people need a full and permanent delay of this unworkable law.”
Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ
The Affordable Care Act in on life support
THE Affordable Care Act is dying. Last week, President Obama had to come up with an administrative fix that would allow some people to keep their existing health insurance for another year. Maybe.
I support the objective of Obama’s signature legislative achievement: ensuring that every American has access to affordable health care. That is not a promise made in the Constitution. The Founding Fathers did not envision a society with easy access to doctors and high-tech medicine. Back in the day, a leech was an actual leech, not some faceless health plan administrator blocking access to an expensive medical procedure that might save your life.
So I get why some conservatives are against “Obamacare.” They want the frontier spirit to kick in. If you break a limb, put a splint on it, pour some homemade plaster over that and hope for the best. And if you have something more complicated than a fracture, that’s your problem. Cancer is not mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
To embrace the idea that every person should have access to health care is to embrace a principle not written down by the Founding Fathers, but one that permeates every word and clause that set the foundation for this nation — that America is a nation of great people capable of doing great things. America today still has great people, but many of the people sitting in Congress are not so great; in fact, they are very small.
And these small people have been hoping the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could be killed. Little did these little people know that the creator of the ACA could be so helpful in making their fantasy become reality. Obama has done so much wrong selling his health care plan it is remarkable the Affordable Care Act has made it as far as it has. (Doblin/The Record)
https://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/232300451_Doblin__The_Affordable_Care_Act_is_on_life_support.html#sthash.amXQ7rot.dpuf
Have no fear – he’ll pump money and manpower into this thing – raise taxes, reallocate funds, issue excutive orders – do what ever it takes to keep this thing alive, regardless of how bad it is or how many citizens are opposed to it.
or put another way…
“We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole-vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform forced on the American people…”
Wow, I guess Dems are still the party of the KKK. How else to explain their racist attacks on Obama’s selling of his health plan?