“The chart from 2010 projects costs rising over 6 percent a year. Instead they’ve risen by at or under 4 percent a year. Since the passage of Obamacare, the Congressional Budget Office has already reduced its ten-year cost estimates by several hundred billion dollars.”Facts. It may not be attributable to Obamacare, but it is a fact that for the first time in a long time healthcare costs are not climbing faster than inflation, and therefore the predicted costs of Obamacare are LOWER THAN PREDICTED.That’s the Congressional Budget Office, not the White House.
@Harleyquinn: Obama lied. W Bush lied. Clinton lied. HW Bush lied. Reagan lied. Carter lied. Ford lied. Nixon lied. LBJ lied. JFK lied. Starting to see a pattern?
Yes, I have read Krugman. He is a Progressive just like Obama is. That Michael wme linked to a White House study on Obamacare just shows the dearth of independent and credible sources that show it works simply because of two things:.1. A lack of data from the Obama administration on what is happening with it.. and.2. What data is available pointing to it being an unmitigated failure.
If you do not believe the available, measured, published facts, you cannot have a valuable opinion. If health care costs go down, but you believe in your heart that they SHOULD be going up, that means that to you they’re going up? Is that your position? Incredible.
I do believe Harley and Tigger like to sequential-post so they can dominate the conversation. I choose to skip the multi-post diatribes in favor of those single posts, even the long ones, that address a point, and allow for DISCUSSION!I have been shown wrong on facts before, and appreciate the single posts that allow for those corrections.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Get a second opinion guy this doctor is a duck. Quack! Quack!
Motivemagus over 10 years ago
“The chart from 2010 projects costs rising over 6 percent a year. Instead they’ve risen by at or under 4 percent a year. Since the passage of Obamacare, the Congressional Budget Office has already reduced its ten-year cost estimates by several hundred billion dollars.”Facts. It may not be attributable to Obamacare, but it is a fact that for the first time in a long time healthcare costs are not climbing faster than inflation, and therefore the predicted costs of Obamacare are LOWER THAN PREDICTED.That’s the Congressional Budget Office, not the White House.
Enoki over 10 years ago
Get an economist that isn’t an apologist and like-thinker to Obama or three to point it out and I’ll look. Krugman is nothing but an Obama parrot.
tygrkhat40 over 10 years ago
@Harleyquinn: Obama lied. W Bush lied. Clinton lied. HW Bush lied. Reagan lied. Carter lied. Ford lied. Nixon lied. LBJ lied. JFK lied. Starting to see a pattern?
magicwalnut Premium Member over 10 years ago
Has anyone beside me noticed that Harleyquinn’s avatar is …Goofy?
EllenLockwood over 10 years ago
How true!!!!
Enoki over 10 years ago
Yes, I have read Krugman. He is a Progressive just like Obama is. That Michael wme linked to a White House study on Obamacare just shows the dearth of independent and credible sources that show it works simply because of two things:.1. A lack of data from the Obama administration on what is happening with it.. and.2. What data is available pointing to it being an unmitigated failure.
ARodney over 10 years ago
If you do not believe the available, measured, published facts, you cannot have a valuable opinion. If health care costs go down, but you believe in your heart that they SHOULD be going up, that means that to you they’re going up? Is that your position? Incredible.
echoraven over 10 years ago
Harleyquinn you are in great form today.
Hectoruno over 10 years ago
f the Platinum plan is too high and the Bronze does not have enough coverage get the Silver or Gold. It is really not that hard a choice.
kaffekup over 10 years ago
Cons never get rewrites. They just keep repeating the bs they’ve been fed as if it were a delicacy.
edward thomas Premium Member over 10 years ago
I do believe Harley and Tigger like to sequential-post so they can dominate the conversation. I choose to skip the multi-post diatribes in favor of those single posts, even the long ones, that address a point, and allow for DISCUSSION!I have been shown wrong on facts before, and appreciate the single posts that allow for those corrections.