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Keeping Insurance: Did Obama Purposely Mislead

What Happened Here?

  • Did Obama purposely mislead people about keeping your insurance?

    Votes: 30 69.8%
  • Was it an honest misstatement?

    Votes: 3 7.0%
  • Was more implied and the description over simplified?

    Votes: 8 18.6%
  • None of the above.

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
He lied and people will be dying needlessly, healthcare took 5 steps backwards
 
Obama denies videotaped "you can keep it" promises | The Daily Caller

In this article Obama is trying to say more was implied with the healthcare reform and that what he really said was something else.
Is this being disingenuous and back peddling, reasonable explanation or simply dishonest?
Does it matter at this point? He's tried to Chicago his way through so many scandals I don't know what to believe anymore. I trust the guy about as far as I could throw Chris Christie.
 
The improvement part is that insurance companies wouldn't be able to deny or drop coverage for prior conditions. But the improvements come at the costs you mention to offset the losses the companies would be hit with. I heard it explained in these terms, that if you make the insurance companies pay out more for sick people and don't have healthy people paying in they go broke.

That changes nothing I said. The working poor still can't afford to actually use their insurance, now they're just forced to pay for it anyhow.
 
At first, I thought he was mistaken or that those in his admin. told him that (even if they may have known it wasn't quite true). But now I think that he may well have lied out of frustration, to get the bill passed.

His lack of desire to change any of the more obvious problems with the Bill don't tide well with his intentions. But there's no way of really knowing what he knew beforehand.

That changes nothing I said. The working poor still can't afford to actually use their insurance, now they're just forced to pay for it anyhow.

Who said I was trying to change anything? I actually agreed and know the deductibles on these new policies are so high $4-5K you might as well not have coverage, except for catastrophic illness.
 
Does it matter at this point? He's tried to Chicago his way through so many scandals I don't know what to believe anymore. I trust the guy about as far as I could throw Chris Christie.

It always matters, even if we feel impotent to effect change. I don't trust most people, more less promise making politicians.
 
Let me parse this up so I can try to respond coherently haha.


Eh, typical partisan nut job pot shots. To be expected.


Well, I don't want to get into an argument, here, but I would point out that, contrary to "partisanship," I am anything but. As I said, I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. I also didn't vote for Clinton the first time. I was no huge fan of Clinton's either, except for his political skill and brilliant mind. But policy-wise, no.

This is hard for partisans to understand. That not everyone is an either-or, and that there are both good and bad things about BOTH of the major parties. It is a matter of fact that Republicans openly accused Hillary Clinton of having someone murdered. If you Google it, you will find that some still believe that. Really wacko stuff.

Equally wacko are conspiracy theories about Bush...that he and Cheney planned the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of people. Wacko stuff. On both sides.

However, I will say that the latter theories were rare and really among unheard of wackos, while the Clinton murder theories were much more widespread and were spread by Republicans in some leadership positions. Just like now....the wacko Kenya birther theories are present among Republican Party leaders and elected officials.

Just an observation from an observer who is in neither camp. But it's hard for those in one camp or the other to accept cricitisms of their own camps. Those expressing critical observations MUST be on the other side! (not)
 
Let me parse this up so I can try to respond coherently haha.





Well, I don't want to get into an argument, here, but I would point out that, contrary to "partisanship," I am anything but. As I said, I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. I also didn't vote for Clinton the first time. I was no huge fan of Clinton's either, except for his political skill and brilliant mind. But policy-wise, no.

This is hard for partisans to understand. That not everyone is an either-or, and that there are both good and bad things about BOTH of the major parties. It is a matter of fact that Republicans openly accused Hillary Clinton of having someone murdered. If you Google it, you will find that some still believe that. Really wacko stuff.

Equally wacko are conspiracy theories about Bush...that he and Cheney planned the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of people. Wacko stuff. On both sides.

However, I will say that the latter theories were rare and really among unheard of wackos, while the Clinton murder theories were much more widespread and were spread by Republicans in some leadership positions. Just like now....the wacko Kenya birther theories are present among Republican Party leaders and elected officials.

Just an observation from an observer who is in neither camp. But it's hard for those in one camp or the other to accept cricitisms of their own camps. Those expressing critical observations MUST be on the other side! (not)

We don't have much to disagree on with respect to this post. Bottom line, crazies on both sides generally and in Congress. I'll look up that Clinton thing. This is the first time I've heard about it (I was in elementary/middle school during the Clinton years). Must not have been terribly wide spread because I'm sure I would have heard of that at some point.
 
Obama denies videotaped "you can keep it" promises | The Daily Caller

In this article Obama is trying to say more was implied with the healthcare reform and that what he really said was something else.
Is this being disingenuous and back peddling, reasonable explanation or simply dishonest?

Nobody with half a brain believes a word out of the President's mouth - but you can be damn sure that Axelrod, Jarrett, etal, had the line poll tested every which way and knew it was a winner even if those in the know knew it was a blatant lie. The slogan was more important than the truth - it's what Obama lives by.
 
I think Jay Leno put it best

JAY LENO: President Obama saw Gravity today-- not the film, his poll numbers. Not good. Latest polls show president Obama's approval rating down to 39 percent, and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's approval rating went up to 49 percent. How does this make Obama feel? He'd been better off smoking crack than passing ObamaCare. It would've been up 10 points. It would've been 10 points higher.

Have you noticed the president backtracking a little bit on this whole deal? Like at a fundraiser earlier this week, President Obama said, no, no, no, what he promised was that you could keep your health care plan if it hasn't changed since the law had passed. You know, he's such a good speaker, he almost believed it himself. And then his pants caught fire. That's when I knew, when I saw, when the pants caught fire.

FREEDOM EDEN: Leno: Obama, ObamaCare Jokes, November 6, 2013

Obama and his democrat thugs lied about a junk bill that they knew was toxic from the get go.
 
It always matters, even if we feel impotent to effect change. I don't trust most people, more less promise making politicians.
I don't see that it does. I really don't see a way for this country to reverse it's death spiral at this point.
 
I'm not the thought police. If you're wrong you're wrong. We can't trust what he says even if it was an honest mistake.

It is difficult to use the word honest in any paragraph concerning the president.
 
I don't see that it does. I really don't see a way for this country to reverse it's death spiral at this point.

Sometimes the "death sentence" is greatly exaggerated. Americans have survived many wars and changes and humans have survived ice ages and other cataclysms.
 
Sometimes the "death sentence" is greatly exaggerated. Americans have survived many wars and changes and humans have survived ice ages and other cataclysms.
Idk man. We are right at the time frame when most empires fail. We're due.
 
Idk man. We are right at the time frame when most empires fail. We're due.

Yeah, you're correct about the historic time frame of how great civilizations seem to become corrupt and fall from within. I hope, I don't see it in my lifetime but I can't believe how much things have changed just in the past 12-17 years. And much of it is good in the form of conveniences, wealth and technology but a lot of it is also a loss of the simple ways and values, that are invaluable in maintaining our priorities that lead to a foundation for social cohesion.
 
Obama purposely mislead the American people.
 
Obama purposely mislead the American people.

You believe he thought he just wouldn't get called out for it?

It simply doesn't make sense to pre sell something that already passed as a law, knowing that as soon as it went in effect people would find it's BS.
I think he really didn't know, which isn't a lot better but if he does nothing to change it, then I'll believe he knew.
 
Yeah, you're correct about the historic time frame of how great civilizations seem to become corrupt and fall from within. I hope, I don't see it in my lifetime but I can't believe how much things have changed just in the past 12-17 years. And much of it is good in the form of conveniences, wealth and technology but a lot of it is also a loss of the simple ways and values, that are invaluable in maintaining our priorities that lead to a foundation for social cohesion.
I think the gains we've made in technology and convenience will in fact be the downfall of our society when times get tough. That is why we, as a country, are so dependent upon the gov't for everything. My father in law and I were building a gravity fed, rain water sewage system for his small hunting cabin he built yesterday. We were discussing how society just doesn't know how to do stuff like that anymore. Most will say, "Yeah, but I can Google it." Well, one day I don't think there will be a Google to look at. What then? I'll tell you what. All of the Yankees will be migrating south and asking us "dumb southerners" how to survive lol.
 
If you believe in Sasquatch, you can keep him, period!;)
 
if the media would have done their job and would have investigated the rights claims that have all came to fruition the law wouldn't have passed

organizations like fact check and CJR did highlight these points, but the morons that make up the majority of the US electorate rather see a bunch of idiots scream at each other on outlets like fox news and MSNBC. You guys get the media coverage you choose to patronize, and could easily access something more informative though less visceral and entertaining. So the only failing here is on the voter and who the choose at the ballot box, with their wallet, and their viewing habits

Congrats suckers
 
We don't have an impartial media in this country, it's all a bunch of biased idiots going for ratings. Nobody in the mainstream media does normal investigative journalism anymore.

because that is not what most consumers want
 
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