Paul Krugman has a great piece up detailing how the Right lies about the Affordable Care Act. Some choice cuts.
But isn’t Obamacare in a “death spiral,” in which only the old and sick are signing up, so that premiums will soon soar? Not according to the people who should know — the insurance companies. True, one company, Humana, says that the risk pool is worse than it expected. But others, including WellPoint and Aetna, are optimistic (which isn’t a contradiction: different companies could be having different experiences). And the Kaiser Family Foundation, which has run the numbers, finds that even a bad risk pool would have only a minor effect on premiums.
Ah, so no boiling pit of sewage. Just the usual free market stuff.
Bette’s tale had policy wonks scratching their heads; it was hard to see, given what we know about premiums and how the health law works, how anyone could face that large a rate increase. Sure enough, when a local newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, contacted Bette Grenier, it discovered that the real story was very different from the image Ms. McMorris Rodgers conveyed. First of all, she was comparing her previous policy with one of the pricier alternatives her insurance company was offering — and she refused to look for cheaper alternatives on the Washington insurance exchange, declaring, “I wouldn’t go on that Obama website.”
Even more important, all Ms. Grenier and her husband had before was a minimalist insurance plan, with a $10,000 deductible, offering very little financial protection. So yes, the new law requires that they spend more, but they would get far better coverage in return.
Wouldn't go on that Obama website...I don't get the personal hatred toward the man. If it's not racist, what is it?
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Wouldn't go on that Obama website...I don't get the personal hatred toward the man. If it's not racist, what is it?
Of course it's racist, what else could it possibly be? :rolleyes:
Answering questions with questions again. What is it? Why such personal vitriol towards the man? Payback for the "unfairness" towards Bush? Tribal anger? Pettiness? What?
When are things allowed to be racist these days? Given all the hysterical bloviation when anyone says anything is racist, it seems like you have cocooned yourselves quite well and it NEVER is (an adolescent reaction to the lie that it ALWAYS is).
"I don't get the personal hatred toward the man. If it's not racist, what is it?"
Though I'm sure many people are inclined to dislike Obama because of his race, a lot more will dislike his policies, and express that dislike as criticisms of the man.
George Bush was a chicken-hawk nitwit who got us into a pointless war, killing and maiming thousands of American soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors, as well as uncounted Iraqi men, women and children.
While he was in office, his smug, smirking face really burned my toast. I said that I hated the man, but what I really hated was what he was doing to the country. I didn't really have any personal animosity toward him as a person, just what he represented.
I know my dad is a racist, but if Obama were white he would hate him just as much -- the way he hated Ted Kennedy and John McCain for their support of "amnesty" for immigrants. He hates his granddaughter who is married to a Latino man. His racism extends to all whites who he sees as cozying up to non-whites.
Racists hate Obama, but hating Obama -- or what Obama is doing -- doesn't make you a racist.
And N answers the question for you Mark.
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