Obama taunts GOP over Obamacare's success

[Cali_Democrat]

President Obama declared victory on the five-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, saying the law has lived up to its promises, and he poked at Republicans for the doom and gloom predictions he says have failed to live up to the hype.

"The bottom line is this for the American people: the Affordable Care Act, this law, is saving money for families and for businesses. This law is also saving lives," the president said. "It's working, despite countless attempts to repeal, undermine, defund and defame this law...it's not the fiscal disaster critics warned about for five years."

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The president ticked off a list of statistics he says prove the law's success: a reduction in hospital admission rates and preventable patient deaths, insurance for 16 million Americans who did not have it before and a slowdown in the growth of healthcare spending.

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"We have been promised a lot of things these last five years that didn't turn out to be the case: death panels, doom, a serious alternative from Republicans in Congress," he said.

Mr. Obama says there are two reasons they can't find an alternative. First, "The Affordable Care Act pretty much was their plan before I adopted it - based on conservative market based principles developed by the Heritage Foundation and supported by Republicans in congress and deployed by a guy named Mitt Romney in Massachusetts to great effect," he said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/five-years-in-obama-taunts-gop-obamcare-success/

[Fred Sanders]

1. The MSM always has to inject their slanted opinions in headlines, facts equal "taunts".

[Scuba]

3. Spinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

[Skittles]

5. he is uppity, don'tcha know

still, they deserve to be mocked

[Lucky Luciano]

7. As 1strongblackman says below, there were definitely some taunts!

"We have been promised a lot of things these last five years that didn't turn out to be the case: death panels, doom, a serious alternative from Republicans in Congress," he said."

Zing!

[Scuba]

2. It ain't Medicare For All, but it's a helluva lot better than what we had without it.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. LOL ...

"We have been promised a lot of things these last five years that didn't turn out to be the case: death panels, doom, a serious alternative from Republicans in Congress," he said.

OUCH

The only other thing he could have added, that would have cut deeper, would have been:

It is such a success that Presidential Candidate Cruz ... the guy that convinced republicans to hold 50+ votes to repeal it ... the guy that got his side to shut-down the government over it ... has decided to sign up for it!

[KansDem]

8. I caught that, too!

Obama set them up with "The Triple"--a hilarious method to highlight absurdity. Establish a pattern: the first two are serious and the third one performs a ZOWEE!!!: a "gotcha."

Obama describing the GOP's response to the ACA--
1. "Death panels"
2. "Doom"
Then...
3. "A serious alternative from Republicans in Congress"

[nxylas]

6. This always bears repeating

[Cha]

11. +16 Million! mahalo nxylas

[awoke_in_2003]

9. "based on conservative market based principles developed by the Heritage Foundation"

That about says it all, doesn't it?

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. Yes, It says that there is now a healthcare financing plan ...

that could pass, that is insuring millions more than the preceding non-plan.

I doubt any of the beneficiaries of this plan caring where it came from or that it is based on conservative market based principle ... I know a DUer recently posted a thread indicating that he/she doesn't.