John Hayward, who bills himself as “Powerful Conservative Voice” on his rightwing blog Human Events has taken off on the ACA with a blistering attack, filled with Conservative fact and numbers. Mr. Hayward, who is the print version of Rush Limbaugh, factually, truthfully and intellectually, doesn’t like Obamacare but his facts and numbers are either wrong or lies.
This is not to say that everything he claims is a lie. The ACA has been anything but what those of us who want to support it wish it had been. But most of those who can still think clearly, understand what it can be and how important that is for our country.
Hayward rants continually that using the success in Massachusetts as an example of what can be done across the country is impossible. Well, he’s right as far as he goes but he fails to mention that the reason you can’t use the Bay State as an example of what can be done in the rest of the country is that many of our fair states are run by idiots or dedicated right wingers who are actually fighting the success of the plan. No, you can’t set up exchanges if the governor won’t let you and without exchanges the plan has no way to sign up new subscribers except the internet. But what kind of governor refuses to use federal money to help the people of his state get health insurance? The answer: a bad one.
The internet works for those who are fairly sophisticated in computer use but there are still a huge number of people and a large percentage of them fall into the uninsured category, who are not comfortable with computer usage.
What Hayward is too short sighted to see; or maybe he just doesn’t want to see because clear vision will kill his stated goal, is that the plan would be much more successful and much further along toward achieving its goal, if all the clowns putting up roadblocks had at least stood aside. No one was ever asking them to help. It had been hoped that a program that could be so good for the country as a whole would, at least, encourage these self seekers to not try and sabotage it.
Forty plus, futile, ludicrous and energy depleting attempts to recall the law have proved that the right has no interest in the democratic process which passed the bill, no interest in the welfare of the people who are now and will be benefiting from the bill, but only a desire to make the man who twice kicked the crap out of them at the polls, look bad.
This has never had anything to do with the merits or demerits of the ACA. It has always been about the far right’s insane desire to see Barak Obama fail. Men like Hayward are too stupid and too self serving, to see that when the president fails, the country fails, but they just don’t care about that. F**k the country, is Hayward’s war cry; just give me what I want.
Hayward’s clone in clownishness, Bill Kristol when asked about the fact, that despite their opposition to Obamacare the GOP has no answer to it, magically reveals that a group of Republicans will unveil their version of a healthcare bill any year now. And it only took them six years to get to the point of talking about it, of admitting that such a plan is necessary. What a revelation! This is so typical of the right. Don’t try to fix an already existing piece of legislation that despite its faults has many advantages. Try to get your own bill on the same subject passed. What, you don’t have one? Who cares, just so Obama doesn’t get any credit for anything he has already accomplished. If there is no need for healthcare, as the GOP says, why institute its own bill? Because they know that they have been lying for six years; that there is a need and that they are just too stubborn and stupid to admit it until they are forced to the wall,
The Republicans are drooling over the CVO report that said about two million people who are holding onto jobs they don’t need, just to get the healthcare, will be able to leave those jobs and now get their own healthcare. How come the GOP loves this information? It’s easy. They think their constituents aren’t smart enough to interpret it correctly and that they can make them think it means that those two million people will lose their jobs. That’s not what’s happening, and only a bunch of lying degenerates would try to sell that slop to their own people.
The people who are buying their own insurance now, will voluntarily leave their jobs because the have enough savings and income from SS and other socialistic sources, that they don’t need to work anymore. So rather than not causing people to lose jobs, this will open jobs for those who are currently out of work and need them. It’s actually a win – win for the ACA, so why are the Republicans rejoicing? Because they think they can lie the situation into something it isn’t. Why do they think that way? Because they know that most of their constituency is too slow to understand what is really happening and coupled with their lies can be persuaded that Obamacare has done the wrong thing. This is despicable, but hen we’re dealing with despicable people.
The Republican spin on the reality of this situation is to say that it is never good to give people a reason to not work. That’s crap. It is especially crap in a country that has a bad balance between its work time and its personal time. The bottom line is that the more people that hold onto jobs they don’t need, the less jobs are available to those that need them desperately. The Republicans want to get people off unemployment insurance, something that they have not been at all helpful with. Well here’s a way to accomplish that. They should be rejoicing but because it is a consequence of Obamacare, they just can’t get their sour mindset to accept the truth.
Carly Fiorina, with whom I rarely agree, has spoken to the fact that one of the big problems with the ACA is that it was written to some degree by the insurance and drug companies thereby insuring that they had strong positions in it. How else would we have the current fifty insurance oligarchies, one for each state when we should have a single payer system? She also points out that the law, as written is just too long, insuring that almost no one will read it. This is all absolutely true and should be addressed in the next term by a Democratic congress.ow else would we have fifty insurance oligarchies, one in each state.
Bob Schieffer, host of Face he Nation, launched an all out attack on the ACA, calling it disastrous, wondering aloud if it would ever work and speaking to the point that many Democrats don’t want the President to help them campaign because, “this thing (ACA) is so unpopular.” Schieffer, by his stance on Obamacare and Edward Snowden has finally shown his true stripes and additionally told the American people why he really belongs, on Fox news. Either that or he’s just too old and too senile to understand what the hell is going on.
Schieffer had Martin O’Malley, on the show. He’s the Governor of Maryland, a state with a great record on education and job growth. O’Malley isn’t a charismatic speaker but he knows his subjects and he makes more sense than anyone I have seen on the tube in a long time. He buried Schieffer on the ACA, pointing out all the good aspects of it and how it will eventually help the country in many areas besides health.
According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the health reform law is having a positive effect on personal incomes and spending. According to the BEA, Obamacare accounted for about three quarters of the overall rise in American’s incomes in January.
The benefits paid, boosted income and allowed those receiving them to spend more in the marketplace thereby improving consumer totals for the period.
The real truth, however comes when we regard the battle plan that the right has used against Obamacare which is basically the big lie used so effectively by Adolph Hitler. Tell the lie and just keep repeating it over and over again until people, because of its familiarity. believe it to be true. So just keep saying that the American people hate Obamacare.
Great concept except, Pew poles show that the American people love it by overwhelming numbers. When asked about varying aspects of the law Americans , mostly in the 70% range approved of it. That’s the bottom line. That’s why it will eventually be a success and that’s why if the Republican’s keep pushing it as their mantra for the 2016 election, they will lose everything they are now so sure that they will win.