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Topic: Now Media Can Tell Us The
Truth About ObamaCare Costs |
Now Media Can Tell Us The
Truth About ObamaCare Costs
Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By:earlybird, 1/7/2013 10:33:50 PM
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| Rising Costs: How often did the president promise the Democrats´ health care reform would bend the spending curve downward? Now the media that´ve coddled him for years are finally talking about ObamaCare´s costs. The media that endorsed ObamaCare as a cost-control watershed are now beginning to actually report on its effects. Over the weekend, the New York Times noted that "health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration´s health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 1/7/2013 10:56:07 PM (No. 9104151)
Whatever gets us closer to single payer the medias true objective
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
reddfroge, 1/7/2013 10:58:08 PM (No. 9104153)
I thought Clinton was the biggest liar...he does not hold a ´candle´ to Obama...the biggest ´Liar in Chief´....his ONLY true statement was that ´he was going to transform America´....true!!!...We are becoming France...sooon to be Greece.
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antiquegolf, 1/7/2013 11:01:45 PM (No. 9104159)
Poster 1 that´s obama´s objectIve too. A video exists where obama says, "I´ve always been in favor of a single payer plan." There is no end to the trouble we are up against with this hood.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 1/8/2013 12:06:20 AM (No. 9104220)
How is it that a law that is passed - or rather rammed - under false pretences, allowed to stand? It´s sort of like, what if they DID find out obama was not a US citizen. Would they make him relinquish his crown - or let him finish his term because he Won? They knew doggone well that health costs would skyrocket, but they lied about it. And why have Repubs seemingly given up fighting about it?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pros7767, 1/8/2013 12:11:19 AM (No. 9104225)
The election is over. Now they can tell us the truth. Poor saps that voted for Obama are shocked I tell you, shocked!
Perhaps next time they will pay attention.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 1/8/2013 12:31:23 AM (No. 9104239)
Most of the serial mediots wouldn´t know the truth if it walked up behind them and gave them an atomic wedgie!!!! For the most part, if they reported that the sky is blue, grass is green and fat babies fart, I´d have to check for myself to verify it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 1/8/2013 1:21:37 AM (No. 9104287)
Liberalism contains no truth. No one with an ounce of sense would believe that the government providing "free" condoms through insurance would be less costly than buying them at the drugstore. Lower cost was never the objective. Government control was the objective.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/8/2013 1:40:43 AM (No. 9104298)
Health insurance companies have raised the rates over and over. Affordable coverage is a myth.
Don´t feel bad for insurance companies; they took the money from agents to make up for that cut in admin costs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/8/2013 2:22:58 AM (No. 9104312)
The corruption is total. Cover-ups and lies are all they do. "Tell us the truth" is now the diametric opposite of the MSM. Whatever depths it takes to advance the Democrat crusade to replace the Constitution with Socialism, they will sink to it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/8/2013 4:06:15 AM (No. 9104349)
So...the drive by media was a big supporter of their messiah and his demonrat cronies and lied time and again to the public. Now the cost of fiasco is coming home to roost and they´re discovering the price they´ll have to pay and are now telling the truth. They´ve finally discovered they´ve been had.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 1/8/2013 9:20:14 AM (No. 9104648)
"ObamaCare is a terrible mistake that can only be fixed by going to a single payer system."
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wants to know “who’s going to jail” over the IRS scandal. But ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller says no laws were violated when the agency targeted conservative groups. So who’s right? Did the IRS’s conduct take a step beyond mere “wrongdoing” and venture into criminal territory? (Snip)Essentially, there are three types of laws that might conceivably have been broken, as Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged in his testimony before a House committee Wednesday:
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