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Obama: "I Am Sorry" Americans Will Lose Their Existing Health Plan Because Of Obamacare
Remember all those YouTube clips (the same medium used to nearly justify World War III) that caught the president lying again and again with promises and assurances everyone would be able to keep their existing insurance plan under Obamacare even though he knew full they wouldn't, until a week ago, thanks to what is left of the non-brownnosing media, as much was revealed to the general public? Well, it's time to come clean, and once again via clip. Moments ago, in an interview with NBC, the charming and very photogenic president said he was "sorry."
"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," Obama told NBC News in an exclusive interview at the White House. "We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this."
Surely a good start to make sure "they know they are heard" is for nobody to lose their job over this fiasco, even those who claim full responsibility for the "debacle."
As for apologies, perhaps it would be more prudent to wait until 2014 when the true costs of this latest welfare Ponzi scheme are revealed for all to see and experience: then it will be a daily tirade of non-stop apologies. So let's just chalk today down to a general rehearsal.
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There, there, Obama. All is forgiven. Just please tell Mr. Chairwoman to keep pushing that Nasdaq to its old time highs. Because who knows - without the daily distraction from the economic collapse this country finds itself in, an apology just may no longer be sufficient...
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Finally, he tells the truth!
You really think he means it
He will personally send a drone strike to {Waziri, Paki}stan, just for you.
The kind of bullshit faux apology only a politician could make with a straight face.
Fuck you Barry, and fuck the rest of the Blue/Red brigade with you!
President Stompyfeet
Because Obama...,
blows goats.
Watch 'Ethos' without prejudice Michael Moore, Woody Harrelson in Netflix.
Surprisingly balanced.
Dems = Repubs
Isnt this supposed to come out on Friday afternoon?
before a thee day week end. Hell yeah. Good catch.
Fuckers can't even read a calendar.
oh, i'm sure they have a (another) doozie to drop on us on Friday afternoon ... just wait !
That is sure to be Sebelius' "important announcement" tomorrow.
Oh, its a four day weekend
Friday is the moozlum day of Alcoholic Excess and Dispensation of Indulgences
In the meantime, more bad news...
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/11/07/botched-nc-traffic-alert-warns-...
Fucking hilarious.
AmeriKa...
Where the AmeriKan people unwillingly loose their own private healthcare at the behest of their government and Iran gets to keep its nukes.
Fuckin'-A This Progressivism Does Wonders for the Soul.
Jesus H Fucking Christ!
What Barry didn't say >>>>>>>
a) I knew this was going to happen and decided to fuck the sheeple in the ass anyway.
b) I've always known why absolutely none of the Red Team voted for my communist manifesto but since Soros bought me a Peace Prize and the media too I could give a fuck about the sheeple.
c) Yeah, I knew all about it and I'm still President. So fuck off!
d) It's Bush's fault. Let's talk about immigration reform, or as Hillary likes to call it, The next great fleecing of America.
e) Why do you think we call them sheeple?
I just walked out my front door and down the street to get my mail...
And yelled at the top of my lungs:
"You can keep your health plan if you like it"
About 5 times...
I await the sheriff's presence....
Shall we now move on to the other promise that "The average US family will save about $2500 pa in pemiums". I recommend that the Repugs just let ACA be because it will implode all by itself with a net result of FEWER Americans insured, MUCH higher costs for all which will be unaffordable to many and more enrolled in Medicare/Medicaid. Guess who will pay for the latter?
I find it amazing the shills who still advocate for this POS actually say "we need the young & healthy to sign up or it won't work."
<Face palm>
One more thing Barry didn't say.......
Look. It's not too late to put this fiasco on hold for another year, sort out the problems and then have another go at it.
Ich bedaure, dass die Gaskammern sind hier für dich.
Wir lesen Ihre Lippen, mo fo mit großen Ohren.
It is comforting to know that the DEINC (Dumbo-Ears- In-Chief) feels your pain.
This douche-bag makes Slick Willie seem like Honest Abe and Jimmy Carter seem like George Washington. Mike Dukakis looked more at home in that tank than this asswipe looks in a leadership position.
I want for a moderate breeze to come along and send this awkward quisling ( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/quisling ) drifting clumsily off to some far away place, say, the Sargasso Sea, or Namibia perhaps, where he can do no more damage and be heard from no further.
Forever.
Dumbo's ears will show up on any patriot's gaydar.
He lied, but the useful idiots will still love and obey him...
Crash, burn...die.
The apologist in chief.
And since he claims to be a lawyer, I'm sure there were a lot of weasel words after I'm sorry...
This is a nice summary
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/obamacare-what-youre-not-being-told
gosh..
this debacle is better than mainlining cooked crazy pills after snorting sterno in a peyote smoke lodge.
..don't criticize it if you haven't tried it.. :-)
sorry.. I forgot the interlude where the metallic paint gets huffed.
What, no Krokodil?
@teamdepends
congrats
dumbest comment award (ever) on ZH
How is that, friend?
Calling Oblamo a goat fucker is an insult to goats everywhere.
Are you and Zer0head on dope!!! It was kaiserhoff who implied that Barry was intimate with goats, which is entirely possible with these freaks. As for you Zer0head, see our comment below and be careful what you say. "Dumbest comment ever", really?
Gee, kids..
Let us not be distracted whilst our goats and other barnyard creatures are being abused by our respected perverts in DC.
After all, it is the right of our military officers to be joined in deviant unions and to lock us all down in during feigned terrorist events.
We have earned this distinction.. cherish it – or else.
Knukles, you need a vacation.
he's been on a roll for two years now. that's gotta be a record. i think he could even say "i think Obama is the greatest ever" and get up arrowed 500 times at this point. what's the record for green up arrows anyways? i know i've gone "deep red" a time or two. and why isn't there a Nobel Prize for Attitude Problem? I mean the Nobel guy did invent dynamite after all. "and this award for going nuclear on line goes to...
WHAT DOES OBAMA SAY? Someone should put that to "What Did the Fox Say" music and sing it. The Lyric King could rearrange the wording to make it work.
Here is the tune. http://youtu.be/jofNR_WkoCE
They've already used "sorta of a God"...but now he says he's sorry, so that a god is out...some sorta demigod from Chicago apparently.
Maybe they can circle back around to the perfect crease in his pant leg, making his male sychophants legs tingle as women pass out in the aisle from all his hard pivots.
Barry Hussein Davis, statist porn star ;-)
Even Demons believe in God.. and Shudder
-parpahrased from the book of James 2:19
You cannot have one without the other ;-)
At least the demons tremble at the presence of God. Just goes to show how evil some men are when the thought of facing judgment doesn't even make them skip a beat.
Just went to that shitrag Huffington Post to read the reactions of all those libtards and came away CONVINCED that all those pol sites have been taken over by the public employees union. Public employees spending work hours posting comments on libtard sites? Par for the course for our gov't, I suppose.
They confirm what we already know will happen. This will all be blamed on the greed of capitalism as we surge toward to new USSA. If corporations couldn't make profits, we would have Utopia.
Gun, meet throat.
And what would happen if 1/2 the S&P 500 companies decided to move offshore?
Translation: sorry you will be broke paying for my health care and even moar dependent on moar government
Paul Krugman is proposing that the government provide full time, full benefit jobs to those of working age that don't already have such government jobs, which would not only reduce unemployment, but resolve this ObamaCare fiasco, since tens of millions more than the present 23 million government workers would then have Mercedes health care plams & gold plated benefits & pensions, too.
The best part is that it can be financed by using platinum trillion dollar coins, minted & deposited monthly.
Krugman doesn't get paid the big bucks, have his own op/ed on the NYT, a professorship at Princeton and win prizes for nothing, don't ya' know.
Then it would be the S&P 250, but don't worry, the remaining ones will still screw us for every nickel they can.
!!!!
Never heard of the movie, I will watch. He had to come out and say something because he was caught red handed and he knew that people would lose their insurance.
All any Republicon candidate has to do during the upcoming election fight(s) is air a political ad with the Obamatron spouting "If you like yer plan, you can keep it." (over and over and over). Run, you Decepticratic jokers!
My insurance is canceled as of Jan 1.
My exchange is completely broken.
FUCK YOU BARACK OBAMA!
(Worth expending from my precious lifetime allocation of caps lock.)
But then added " I'm good at killin people"
+ a bazillion
and now for the death and assassination panels to be combined in a newly created establishment known as the Ministry of Death
and they'll start a C-Span PayParView channel for watching everybody die, real time called:
Live Death
Nah, Knuks, they'll call it the Ministry of Life.
Yes, The Ministry of Life.
TV won't be pay per view, it will be free, mandatory viewing for all; 2 minutes per day. We call it... Two Minutes Hate.
Show your zeal!
Bazinga!
i have lost my insurance twice. the first time the guardian just closed their healthinsurance business the minute the law passed. now i am unable to get small group policy written in the state into which i moved becasue i need apparently to get a family plan modeled on the shit in the exchange so my old plan in my old state will not carry over.
thats what you get though when you make the president of your country a guy named barack obama. i mean wtf? what kind of fucking name is that for the president of theunited states? third world name, third world president, now third world country. you get what you pay for.
third world is right.
Better start using the term 4th world, as describing the U.S. as 3rd world is an insult to all virtuous 3rd world countries.
Only thing missing is chickens in the street
The letter arrived here in the mail today, cancelling my grandson's coverage on 1/1, and of course, I can't add him to mine.
Central planning at its finest.
I assume his parents are without a health insurance policy, as that was another major "selling point" of this grifter...that one can keep their kids on their insurance until 26yrs old.
These people really didn't know WTF they were doing OR knew exactly what they were doing.
Either way, its bad.
People who purchase individual health plans obviously are rugged individuals who shun groups. Obviously terrorists. President Obama clearly saw the danger here and made a preemptive strike. Now they must be forced to join the Collective for the betterment of us all. How comforting to live under the rule of such a wise, Supreme Leader.
Miffed;-)
it's not socialism, it's not single payer, it's not money saving, it's not better healthcare. It's not anything but corporate / government crime
the plan came from both parties because they're both corrupt and both whores to the insurance / drug masters
Yet, oddly only one party voted for it! And actions always speak louder than words. Just remember that.
and you really think the other party doesn't bow to same slavemasters? This is about publicly positioning against the other party (no matter what the issue) to make the public think there are two parties. There aren't. Remember the basic core design came from "the other party."
"I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,"
"......however, you still have to comply with the law because I'm the president and I say so."
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal."
That really didn't work out too well for Tricky Dick...
... and then his pants caught on fire!
I would rather his head explode.
Wouldn't that be wonderful ! If he was really sorry; he could resign. That would be acceptable.
Of course not! The guy can't not lie. We were refering to "I am sorry". That much is true. I/we mean, this guy is making W look like a Rhodes Scholar!
budumpshhhhhh!!
In the venacular of my hometown - BLOW ME>
Onion article?
Obama and his empty speech:
[...]
In 2011, when S&P downgraded the credit rating of the U.S. for the first time in our country’s history, President Obama gave another speech. It was a good speech, as far as speeches go—he is an outstanding speaker. But that speech was all President Obama did. Therefore the national debt grew bigger, and the cost to insure it against default rose from an average of 25 basis points to 55 points.
Soon after the barbaric assassination of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three of his subordinates inside our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, carried out on the symbolic date of September 11 by certified Islamic terrorists, President Obama gave another speech. It was another good speech, but speeches alone do not prevent terrorism. The subsequent 2013 terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon was followed by one more presidential speech. “Homegrown extremists. This is the future of terrorism,” the president proclaimed. All we needed to do was close down Guantanamo and make a slight change in how we used drone airplanes.
A few months ago, when the terrorist government of Syria killed some 1,300 people with chemical weapons, President Obama gave several speeches. But speech-making is all he did, and that allowed Putin’s KGB, now installed in the Kremlin, to take over the handling of our policy toward Syria. A few days ago, when Obamacare’s website collapsed, the president reacted with one more speech, assuring the country that Obamacare “is working just fine. In some cases, actually, it’s exceeding expectations.” The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein said the speech was almost identical to one he could have given if the launch’s rollout had gone smoothly. He was right. It was just another glasnost speech.
[...]
Worth a read:
http://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2013/10/30/lenin-stalin-ceausescu-obama-h...
"your benefit check is so not in the mail" is part of a disinformation campaign? see comment below. this is not complicated...but can very easily become so given all the "cat herding" involved. http://www.lbjlibrary.org/press/making-harry-trumans-dream-come-true this was last true "cajoler in chief." talk about a steam roller. Bob Dole's ADA expansion in the 80's stands out as at that level as well. not much since though. this thing got ram-rodded through...as with so many other things oh these many years...meh. welcome to Washington. Wall Street is a fickle master when it's in charge of your government program. who needs gold when you can have "all the QE you need" right?
Not a mistake, no, no, no, not a mistake at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLR25EJtfE
We will believe you when you send everyone that lost there insurance a hand written letter leting them know what a lieing ass hole you are!
No; but in a way it's true' he's the sorriest thing I've had to look at for weeks.
so fitting!
"sorry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0EL_u4nvw
I hadn't read your post and posted exactly that above before changing it. Can't think of better imagery.
He's not sorry.
He wants single payer. He wants people crawling on their knees to .gov for "health insurance". The only thing he's sorry about is he got caught lying so quickly.
He's probably having a hissy fit that the NSA and the networks didn't cover for him.
Mr.Transparency didn't count on people actually reading the bill to see whats in it or following up on what regulations were to be developed for it.
Obama is the president, as president he is over the "regulators". The regulators write the regulations that make the "law" work. HHS reports to him.
Page 34,560...everyone will eventually lose private health insurance as we know it, if the "law" stays in force:
https://webapps.dol.gov/federalregister/PdfDisplay.aspx?DocId=23967
Period.
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Ahhh, we have a wandering gnome in our midst from HuffPo.
Well, I will assume you don't like bailing out "big biz"...yes?
Read it and weep:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/if-obamacare-fails-taxpayers-get-to-bail-out-the-insurers/article/2537887
Its-In-The-Law.
"Risk adjustment and reinsurance both require profitable health plans to share risk with unprofitable ones. As exchange insurers take on thousands of new patients of unknown risk, the provisions prevent any one plan from collapsing right out of the gate based on dumb luck.
All the money for reinsurance and risk adjustment comes from insurers, but the risk corridor is different. At the corridor's center is the point at which a health insurance plan breaks even after paying for patients' care and allowable administrative costs.
If an exchange plan's performance varies in either direction by more than 3 percent, it either collects a subsidy from federal taxpayers via the Department of Health and Human Services to recoup part (50 to 80 percent) of further losses, or it has to kick back a similar share of the excess profit.
Ideally, the money kicked back by profitable health plans can cover the subsidies for plans that lose. But unlike with the other two R's, there is no legal requirement that the numbers balance or limit on what can be paid.
So imagine that we do enter a “death spiral” situation in which a large number of exchange health plans lose big and very few turn sizable profits. This could result from a delay of the individual mandate (reducing incentive to sign up); or from the current open enrollment period being extended (during which the uninsured can literally sign up for insurance on the way to the hospital); or from lack of interest among the healthy uninsured; or from faulty websites deterring all but the most desperate from enrolling."
Better get busy signing up the young & healthy who don't want or need health insurance and strip mining their meager earnings to make this puppy work.
They're young (remember?) just starting out in their lives, practically zero assets and on the bottom of the pay scale...and now you're going to ream them for "health insurance"?
Good luck wif dat ;-)
The Dim Senators are scared shitless over the blow back from this. They know what's coming.
If Harry Reid would allow a vote, the whole damn thing would go down in flames,
But that would be democracy.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
Bullshit... This is the game plan to go to single payer. Fuck him. If he's sorry repeal the fucking law.
Shiit if republicans would have thrown down a few perjury charges they might have kept control of the house, now all bets are off. Serves them right for bei g pussies, prep for a democrat controlled gooberment
Amazing description of the Virginia governor's race:
The Republican Estabilshment is at war with their Base.
'bout says it all............
They called me. The RNC. After Christie won and Cuccinelli lost.
They had the nerve to call me.
I told them 3 words into their scripted manifesto: screw you, just like you did Cuccinelli. Take me off your list. And then hung up.
I'm done. War with the base? I'm about to shake hands with a 99%'er. We're all in the same boat but we've been told to hate each other. Middle class? What middle class? Say that and you're "oppressing" those that use SNAP cards for food.
School vouchers? You're oppressing (fill in the blank group here) for your privilege life style. Home school b/c you don't want to learn about the communist manifesto or Mao's red book at age 5? What kind of parent are you?????
Don't want to give the big banks or the big corporations a tax break? Must be a liberal.
Like I said - there's nobody for small business and middle class. We've become the United States of Corporate Oligarchies. Its them vs. the base.
Welcome aboard.
Its not that hard to understand. We're not all Keynesians now, afterall...lol.
They wil be rooted out from their crevices, to the-very-last-one...all of them. Metcalf "bit the bullet" today for his unpardonable sin of comparing a right, to a crime.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/07/guns-ammo-fires-editor-apologizes-for-gun-control-column.html
You do not have a right to scream fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire. There will be more.
I'm about to shake hands with a 99%'er. We're all in the same boat
Agreed. The Tea Party and Occupy live in the same neighborhood but just can't see it.
We just had to introduce ourselves to each other, first ;-)
Any other self respecting American president would have tendered his resignation over an issue like this. This is the worst president to serve the USA.
This is the worst president to serve the USA.
Ya' know I really couldn't argue with you.
Beating some of the previous Bozos was a tough job, but I think he's done it.
Not really.
The truth is he doesn't give a shit about you or me...
Obama is about as 'sorry' as Joe Stalin.
People who lost their health insurance are just a "statistic".
Sorry, I live on Antarctica.
Is this the retard that visited the 57 states?
Yeah, that one. The Affirmative Action Kid; Mr. Retard to you.
He's as sorry as the scorpion that stung the frog carrying him across the river. In before, "It is his nature..."
For the Children!!!
Fuck the Children!!!
Im sorry little chicken, I have to eat you for dinner.......mmmmm...diner..burp.
RIPS
"...we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this."
More lies.
How do you say 'Dick!' in Kenyan?
Obama
And the Kenyan word for 'sucks'?
Barack
figured
I promise I won't cum in you, Kenyan style.
Lol, 9 months later and you dudes are going to need you Obamacare.
Over.
In Kenyan, they do not have such a one word.
They only have the two-word translation of "Dick-Head"
as it is pronounced "Barack Obama"
Don't be sorry,legislate new laws making them able to at the same rates.You LEGISLATE everything else.
Stuff your sorries in a sack, asshole.
Lies have been spoken.
Followed by, Problems will be fixed?
(crickets)
But, it's a good product. If it were on the shelf on the dolla store people would buy it!
Over.
Naturally, he took full responsibility and immediately resigned.
Oh wait. It's Obama. He just says he's sorry that we feel lied to, then goes right back to lying.
Yep, the Oblamer is never responsible for anything...
Always blaming someone else for his fuck-ups!
This incompetent boob couldn't hold the jock-strap...
Of President Harry Truman - "The buck stops here!"
He is sorry if we are stupid and "misunderstood" the words coming out of his mouth and he is sorry if we are smart enough to understand he is a lying cocksucker. He is SORRY....
i intend to ask him why all this lying, in person, about ten years from now, when he greets me at harrah's in atlantic city
This guy looks like he is on crack
By now, he probably is, or will be quite soon.
Apparently there is now a video of him and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
No, this is a guy on crack:
New Rob Ford rant
Reminded me of Chris Farley...can't think of why
I shit in the milk of your sorrow!
But you can always get a third job to pay for my great Soviet Experiment.
Don't hold yourself back ! Go ahead and tell us how you feel about this!
"We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position"
What does that even mean? It's okay that he lied, because he's going to hear the complaints of the people he lied to? How is he going to "deal" with folks who have had their insurance canceled because of the mandates in his law? I would love to see a poll "Do you believe anything Obama says?"
It means he's going to leave it up to his apparatchiks in the media to explain to you that if you're fucked, you had it coming.
He's not going to fight that battle when others will fight it for him.
...
Is there some type of Nobel Prize "Useless Apology" Category?
Yeah, I think Krugman won that one.
"We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position"
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That might actually mean something if we had real journalists who would doggedly follow up on it and make him explain exactly what he's going to do. But all the sycophant MSM has it's collective nose so far up Oblamer's ass, he knows he can get away scott free on that claim.
Welcome to FEMA camp, folks. Prepare to be dealt with.
I call top bunk!
Exactly what I was thinking; I don't want this guy dealing with me or mine; If Hitler told you he was going to deal with people who were complaining about the state's orders; would you be optimistic? Shudder.
His minions are getting killed in their districts. Blah blah blah till 2015
Followed by intensified waves of Blah, Blah, Blah.
FUCK YOU BARRY!!!!!!!!!
There it is.
Is he sorry for my friend Ben who needs a liver from an auto-immune disease who was dropped and now must have a $10,000 defucktible? His old policy was so shitty cuz I'm sure he plans on having a fuckin baby once the whole liver thing clears up on its own. TRUE STORY. Guy is fucked now. He is one of my oldest friends. 38 years old. I found out last week. I am speaking to him tonight for the last time unless a miracle happens. Sorry is not good enough. Fuck you is....
Condolences, IR.
Thanks. If only he was some piece of shit sucking .gov teets and breeding more dumbass EBT cucarachas. Sucks to be white and lower middle class. Prolly better this way for him as he won't have to ride out the coming conflagration.
Start a PayPal website and collect donations for your buddy. Charity without the barrel of a gun at your head is what Americans used to do.
If and when you set it up, give us the link. I can't speak for others, but I'll put some fiats in the hat.
Just an idea. Easier said than done, I know.
Good idea -- I can add some bitcoin to it, too. Sorry for your friend, that is rough.
What really pisses me off is the way they make it sound like this is just a tiny portion of the population and these people don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Well, they do matter, they're gonna get desperate and telling them how insignificant they are seems to be really poor management of the whole deal.
And it isn't like the problem is not going to grow. They're just dealing with the self-employed first.
We are a rough and tumble lot, but there is much charity here. I need to get him on the horn, but I have been unabale to reach him.
I pray for your friend. I'm not all that religious but Iv'e had enough death in my life to question "what is all this shit for." I don't know the answer and I spend a lot of nights staring at the stars by myself asking questions that don't come answered,,but I do know if you are this web site then at least you are ten steps ahead of everyone else and you will get through your troubles. Keep the peace stay SAIN my friend.
What really pisses me off is that back in JULY I described in detail the cancellation-high-premium-worse-coverage scenarios that are being brought to light now. I did the research for my own situation. Read the filings with our Office of the (worthless) Insurance Commissioner. Neither of my Senators (dumb Murray and elitist Cantwell) gave a damn. * As someone noted earlier in the thread, I am just a statistic.
People are just statistics to statists.
Like this nugget from Madeleine Albright about 500,000 statistics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WDCYcUJ4o
Have him commit a felony. First offense will end in a minimum security prison with full medical.
Or just go batshit and take out every white fool with Obama 2012 stickers on their car.