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The Bush Administration had 8 long years, 6 of them with Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate to introduce an affordable healthcare system provided by the private sector. The OP is criticizing the Democrats for something that the Republicans couldn't accomplish in 8 years."
The Obama team is woefully behind its own schedule for implementing features of the legislation. The critical regulations outlining what the Obamacare insurance benefit will look like was supposed to be out more than six months ago. Now it looks like this regulation won't be dropped until after the election. This is just one key aspect of the program that is way behind the administration's own timeline.
These facts alone should give proponents of the law pause. But the early experience with the elements of Obamacare that have already kicked in is downright dismal.
The core of Obamacare doesn't get started until 2014, when state-based exchanges are supposed to be formed as places for consumers to buy the legislation's tightly regulated, subsidized coverage. But early features of Obamacare are already failing."
RealClearMarkets - The Emerging Obamacare Truth Is Disarray
Even Rick Santorum, a fellow Republican, criticized Romney for excessive negative campaigning and attempting to "smear" anyone who opposed himOP is from the American Enterprise Institute. Did you expect anything positive from them?
Informing Americans is POSITIVE!! When will you libs ever learn? Knowledge is POWER!!!
eating the lies Obama feeds you just makes you his sheep!
"We're in a terrible economic climate, where medical utilization trends are way down. The cost of healthcare coverage should be falling as well. But premiums have risen far faster than overall inflation or GDP growth since Obamacare's passage. The regulations kicked in with no offsetting incentives to get people into the insurance pool to help absorb the costs. If the President wants to take credit for these costly insurance market reforms, he also has to accept blame for the rising costs.
So what's left for the President to tout?
Not much. Obamacare isn't even in full swing, and at every turn, the program is crumbling. The President's team is banking on a second term to try and right all of its fiascos but there's an emerging truth that the scheme is simply unworkable."
RealClearMarkets - The Emerging Obamacare Truth Is Disarray
They may be slow in implementing it but at least the cost keeps rising
It's really pretty simple --- Do you understand the difference between state and federal government?
Even the OP noted that the exchanges are state-based, just like the Commonwealth Connector in Massachusetts. The feds will only step in to run one for a state as a last resort. Here's former GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist writing a few months ago on the wisdom of that design:
Why both parties should embrace ObamaCare's state exchanges - The Week
State exchanges are the solution. They represent the federalist ideal of states as "laboratories for democracy." We are seeing 50 states each designing a model that is right for them, empowered to take into account their individual cultures, politics, economies, and demographics. While much planning has yet to be done, we are already seeing a huge range in state models. I love the diversity and the innovation.
Want a more conservative, small-business focused exchange that bans abortion coverage in all its plans? Try Utah and its state exchange, originally founded under Gov. Jon Huntsman. Think that President Obama missed a huge opportunity to steer the nation towards a single payer system? Try Vermont, which plans to ultimately transform its state exchange into a single payer system, Green Mountain Care, that will offer coverage to all state residents. With soaring health care costs one of, if not the most, dangerous threats to America's greatness, a new round of national health care experimentation is exactly what we need.
That is insanity! You still have the fed gov't ordering people what to do!!! If the states want health-care reform of this nature - they should decide on it as a state and there should be NO FEDERAL FUNDING involved. The federal gov't should not increase their power in our lives in any way, shape, or form!
Even the OP noted that the exchanges are state-based, just like the Commonwealth Connector in Massachusetts. The feds will only step in to run one for a state as a last resort. Here's former GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist writing a few months ago on the wisdom of that design:
Why both parties should embrace ObamaCare's state exchanges - The Week
That is insanity! You still have the fed gov't ordering people what to do!!! If the states want health-care reform of this nature - they should decide on it as a state and there should be NO FEDERAL FUNDING involved. The federal gov't should not increase their power in our lives in any way, shape, or form!
I think each state should start its own currency and we should dump the dollar. All the power should be in the hand of the states.
They may be slow in implementing it but at least the cost keeps rising
It is rising at the lowest rate in over fifteen years. This is a good thing.
Obamacare in complete disarray
...and every time you quote that lie about premiums rising at a slower rate I will be right there to post the truth...
More liberal liars --- man they make me sick!
...and every time you quote that lie about premiums rising at a slower rate I will be right there to post the truth...
More liberal liars --- man they make me sick!
Hey bud, I've got the bills to prove it. My premium rates have only increase 4% each of the last two years. Just because you don't want it to be true doesn't make it that way.
Obamacare in complete disarray
Something the ACA and the Romney campaign have in common.
Obamacare in complete disarrayRomney Campaign Co-Chair Resigns to Lobby for Wall Street
Romney’s national campaign co-chair Tim Pawlenty is resigning from the campaign to lobby for Wall Street. The former Minnesota governor will head the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other financial firms. Before working for Romney’s campaign, Pawlenty was considered a potential candidate for president and later as a possible vice-presidential pick.
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/...ign_co_chair_resigns_to_lobby_for_wall_street
Obamacare in complete disarray
Something the ACA and the Romney campaign have in common."Disarray" appears to be the operative word, at least as far as Romney's Campaign is concerned.Romney Campaign Co-Chair Resigns to Lobby for Wall Street
Romneys national campaign co-chair Tim Pawlenty is resigning from the campaign to lobby for Wall Street. The former Minnesota governor will head the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other financial firms. Before working for Romneys campaign, Pawlenty was considered a potential candidate for president and later as a possible vice-presidential pick.
Now his national campaign co-chair, Tim Pawlenty, is resigning in the middle of the presidential campaign so that he can lobby for the financial firms on Wall Street.
Weren't these the very firms whose "greed" created the financial collapse in 2008 - just another graphic example to show whose best interests Romney and his friends, including his campaign co-chair, represent.
What a joke.... You think you are the only person paying for healthcare in the entire Country??? You moron!
You can't look at one example and make a ludacris assertation based on that...
The price behavior we are witnessing is unprecedented. July 2012 represented the 38th month of the current economic expansion, yet both the overall economy and the health sector (as measured by the HCPI) are exhibiting extraordinarily low price inflation.
But the report also noted that for the third year in a row, CBO expects the growth in Medicare spending in 2012 to be substantially slower than anticipated earlier in the year.
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf said at a press conference that the slower growth in Medicare is consistent with slower health care cost growth throughout the economy, which many analysts have observed. But he said its still unclear why the slowdown is happening.
I don't know I don't think Romneycare will be so bad... Oh I mean Obamacare. Sorry I'm confusing it with Romneycare which has been around for a while and has been working very well. Doesn't Romney love mandates? Oops I mean Obama? Oh I'm so confused. Can some teapartiers clear it up for me? And explain why the idea of Universal Healthcare is divisive even though both candidates are defined by it?
