One candidate's summation of O-care

[TitoMorelli]

vdnY8r7_fLw




Dr. Barbara Beller, candidate for the Illinois state senate:

"We’re going to be gifted with a health care plan we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding (laughing & applause) - same sentence – with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted social security and medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese and financed by a country that’s broke.

"So, what the blank could possibly go wrong?"

[Midtowner]

The Surgeon General oversees all of the Affordable Care Act?

So many half truths and outright wrong statements to be credible.

[badger]

The Surgeon General oversees all of the Affordable Care Act?

So many half truths and outright wrong statements to be credible.

It sounded good though, didn't it? :)

Seriously, does it matter at this point? The Supreme Court is not going to overturn itself. Obama is not going to veto himself.

It all comes down to this: Obama re-elected = Obamacare. Romney elected = Obamacare repeal.

[Midtowner]

Romney elected = Obamacare repeal.

They're going to need a supermajority in the Senate, which is pretty unlikely at this juncture.

[FaninAma]

They're going to need a supermajority in the Senate, which is pretty unlikely at this juncture.

That is false. The Democrats used a procedural rule to cut off debate and not allow the GOP to fillibuster. The cost of passing the bill that way is that it's repeal can be done the same way.

By the way, the state senate candidate is wrong. There will be 18 million more people covered by the expanded medicaid program. There are 22,00 new doctors finishing residency every year but 32,00 to 35, 000 are retiring each year and when the retirments in the baby boom age really heat up that figure will increase to 50,000 doctors retiring each year. You do the math.

Regardless of who gets elected it is going to be fun watching them control spending in entitlement programs and healthcare programs with an aging population and the country 16 trillion in debt.