Tag: Obamacare
An Inescapable Fact of Politics
In politics, when you have to eat shit, you don’t nibble.
— Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis, quoted by CBS News, saying that President Obama “would be wise to admit his like-your-plan-keep-your-plan dodge was a mistake and apologize immediately and conspicuously.”
Dems Increasingly Anxious Over Botched Obamacare Rollout
I believe that there’s been a crisis of confidence created in the dysfunctional nature of the website, the canceling of policies, and sticker shock from some people.
— Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), quoted by Roll Call, signaling increasing Democratic anxiety over the botched rollout of Obamacare.
Klein: Obamacare is a ‘Highly Moral Piece of Legislation’
This is not health care for deadbeats, as many Republicans assume. It is a highly moral piece of legislation: the people most affected will be the working poor and lower middle class, people who have jobs, often at small businesses, but don’t have health care. (The unemployed and unemployable poor already have health care via Medicaid.) It is a matter of simple fairness that if we, as a society, provide health insurance to those who don’t work, we also provide it to those who do.
— Joe Klein, writing in Time’s Swampland Blog, noting the importance of Obamacare “should not be lost in the Administration’s failure to implement it.”
Democrats: Fire Somebody, Anybody, Over Failed Obamacare Website
I really believe he needs to, you know, man up, step up.
— Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN), quoted by WCCO, urging President Obama to fire someone over the bungled Obamacare exchange rollout.
Fox News Shares an Obamacare Success Story
By accident, I’m sure, Fox News Online was fair and balanced. The site ran a story by Sally Kohn — a self-described Obamacare guinea pig — about her experience of purchasing insurance through the New York state exchange. It took her a few frustrating days, but in the end she got better coverage for her family and saved money.
Here’s an excerpt:
In other words, there’s still plenty of time to fix the websites and for more Americans to enroll — and save. Meanwhile, we know that in a state like Oregon, ObamaCare has already reduced the number of uninsured individuals by 10%. Glitches aside, that’s a great start.
We’ve suffered through four years of outlandish attacks against ObamaCare — that it will kill our grandmothers, or at least just kill our economy. But the fact is that ObamaCare has created a private marketplace so that millions of American families like mine can get affordable, quality health insurance while keeping more of our hard-earned money.
Read the rest of the story here.
Heads Must Roll!
Obamacare’s website’s faltering, so the Republicans grandstand,
With a whole bunch of nebbish Democrats joining the band.
Sure, most are digital Luddites
Who don’t know a bit from a byte,
But they still want someone fired over what they don’t understand.
