You Can’t Make An Omelet Without Breaking…
Ah, yes. The poor eggs. MoveOn says the sacrifice is worth it. From their latest petition:
Why are we so fixated on 4 million insured people who may lose their current and mostly sub-standard health insurance policies and ignoring the fact that 48 million people who have never had health insurance will finally be able to buy health insurance?
The 4 million insured have had the ability to purchase insurance all along. Now, due to circumstances beyond their control, including the greed of insurance companies, they could potentially lose their current policy. But they still have the option to get another plan.
The 48 million people that have never had coverage would not be able to get any health insurance coverage if it were not for the Affordable Care Act. End of story!
Ouch. Too bad we didn’t hear that until after election day.
As Orwell said: “Where are the omelets?”
Well played.
Hint to MoveON.
It’s not 48 million uninsured any more.
Thanks to Obamacare, the number is now 53 million.
End of message.
^Truth. He’s single-handedly increased the number of uninsured and will have to work double just to get in the positive.
He’ll rely on way too many people to get that accomplished
“The 4 million insured have had the ability to purchase insurance all along. Now, due to circumstances beyond their control, including the greed of insurance companies, they could potentially lose their current policy. But they still have the option to get another plan.
The 48 million people that have never had coverage would not be able to get any health insurance coverage if it were not for the Affordable Care Act. End of story!”
Sacrificing the rights of the few for the many is not why this country was established.
Unfortunately politicians seem to thing that this version of equality is needed
Its certainly a “gimme” society
I tend to favor opportunity over end equality. We should free up the market to the consumer.
“Ouch. Too bad we didn’t hear that until after election day.”
He waited so he could get office, plain simple.
Such is the life of politicians
All truths reveal themselves in time
Depends on who owns the eggs and whether they’re getting compensated for them.
Uh… someone tell the robots at MoveOn.org that there was a thriving individual market for insurance prior to Obamacare, and that policies were mostly cheaper and more affordable. No one was stopping those 48 million people from buying these policies.
Nor is, in fact, Obamacare providing universal insurance for all those people, many of whom are uninsured by choice and will continue to be so.
Good grief — “The 48 million people that have never had coverage would not be able to get any health insurance coverage if it were not for the Affordable Care Act.”
Never had coverage? How can people be so proud of their ignorance? The numbers of “chronically uninsured” (two years or more) are a tiny fraction of the total. People enter and exit the insurance market all the time.