This sounds about right

[schnurrbart]

OK, so your doctor decided he didn't want to take ACA insurance.  Many Dr's don't take Medicare, some don't take Aetna.  You had to get a new dr.  Some ins. Didn't want to provide coverage for certain things that the ACA said was mandatory and they dropped you.  That has always happened.  Costs have gone up.  Yes, because man and money are still involved--mainly those poor ins. Cos.  Where are the rest of those "chock full of lies"?

[BA Deere]

Blue Cross premiums going up 30% when Obama said "averge premiums will go down $2500/yr" alot of lies were told to get it through...But all these damned "fact check"  "Pinochio" web sites that democrats hang their hats on NEVER mention that crap and those are BIG WHOOPERS...not Michelle Bachmann making some piddley mis-speak.

But Obama and the Democrat`s hearts were in the right place...right?

[bruce MN]

ACA has some serious flaws, although not necessarily the ones that you see.

it's been asked often here, but if you could make it go away with a new GOP administration ( every candidate says they will scuttle it if elected)  what do you replace it with?  Do you go back and reset where it was the day before it passed?

[BA Deere]

That`s just it, those 'serious flaws" were warned about by the Republicans including Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin and all the other victims of the fraudulent "fact check" websites...by getting what they warned about with Obamacare, they could "lie" with "70% of food stamps"  or other piddley misstatements to the end of eternity and still not nulify the greater truths they have told.

As far as replacing Obamacare, I`ll start with a paraphrase of the Doctor`s Hippocratic Oath..."First do no harm".  and that is it, harm was done to America`s health system.  So yes, go back to what we had would be preferable...but, it can`t be done, the insurance industry has been turned on it`s head. So in short, I will listen to what any of the GOP solutions are, as they have zero responsibilty for breaking it, therefore having the higher ground.

BTW the democrats were touting Obamacare would put 39 million uninsured on insurance...last I heard they were bragging about 17 million...where`s the goll damned fact checkers on that goll damned lie????

[GreaTOne_65]

And none of your kind, make mistakes? Donald Trump is the King of Mistakes then, because CBS, voted him the biggest liar of all!! LOL!!

[GreaTOne_65]

They were hoping for 39 million, but 17 million is more than enough to make it work. The only thing the ACA did to the insurance companies is require them to do what was right for their patients. The insurance companies are rubbing their hands together about the possiblity of a Republican take over, don't kid yourselves. I'd like to point out, the ACA was a Republican plan, if you will remember. I can guarntee you, anything the Republicans come up with will be beneficial to the Insurance Companies, NOT YOU!

BTW, Grubber recanted, but that doesn't count, does it, because it ruins your whole narrative.

[HortonGordelson]

18 million had their policy cancelled.  That leaves you short 1 million.

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

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And none of your kind, make mistakes? Donald Trump is the King of Mistakes then, because CBS, voted him the biggest liar of all!! LOL!!

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The new network, which acquired 22 affiliates and 16 employees, lost money. In January 1929 it was sold for $400,000 to a tobacco fortune heir named William Paley. "Paley's great gift," wrote media historian Albert Auster, "was in recognizing talent. He soon signed singers such as Bing Crosby, Kate Smith and Morton Downey for the network. Unfortunately, as soon as some of them gained fame at CBS they were lured away by the far richer and more popular NBC."

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By 1974 the Columbia Broadcasting System had become CBS, Inc. It had also acquired a publishing division (Holt, Reinhart & Winston), a magazine division (Women's Day) and even the New York Yankees (1964-73).

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