Except when you buy a starter home, it doesn’t cost $500,000, then catch fire a week later.

Quote: President Barack Obama touted his signature health care law on Thursday as a big, “first step” forward in health reform — likening it to a “starter home.”

“I have always said that for all the good the Affordable Care Act is doing right now, for as big of a step forward as it was, it’s still just a first step,” Obama said while defending his law to a crowd at Miami Dade College. “It’s like buying a starter home. It’s a lot better than not having a home. But over time, you hope you can make some improvements.”

Obamacare has expanded coverage to 20 million Americans and has helped drive the insurance rate to a historic low of 8.6 percent. But the law has raised concerns in recent months as some insurers have pulled out of the marketplaces, causing premiums to spike next year, some in excess of 50 percent in certain states.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/ba...ome-230108

Well, duh. The steps make a path to single payer nationalized healthcare. Take a number and we will get you in to see the Dr. next....summer.

It's been catastrophic for the middle class. Who does he think it was good for at this point?

Our leaders are reaching Soviet levels is doublespeak.

I believe if you go back to thread about the ACA those of us critical of it was an end around to the intended end game of single payer. #vindicated

What happens to your legacy when your signature legislative achievement goes boom?

(10-20-2016 07:54 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  What happens to your legacy when your signature legislative achievement goes boom?

It was always intended to go boom.
The end game is and has always been single payer.

I would say it is more like Social Security. Just another ponzi scheme.

(10-20-2016 08:50 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  I would say it is more like Social Security. Just another ponzi scheme.

Exactly. And single payer will be like moving from the projects to the streets.

(10-20-2016 08:54 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-20-2016 08:50 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  I would say it is more like Social Security. Just another ponzi scheme.

Exactly. And single payer will be like moving from the projects to the streets.

Not just any streets. The really ****** streets. If you're lucky.

up until just that moment, he had sold ACA as the final, ultimate solution. just the first, yet, most grandiose of his sacred pronouncements:

Quote: . . . an issue that is central to that future -- and that is the issue of health care.
I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

BHO, Remarks to a joint session of congress on health care. September 9, 2009