Subscribe to the Blunt Force Truth podcast

Obama: GOP Trying To ‘Inflict Real Human Suffering’ By Killing Obamacare

So, the architect of Obamacare, which is failing faster than an Adam Sandler movie, thinks it’d be a terrible idea to get rid of Obamacare.

Who’d’a’thunk?

President Obama gave a speech on Wednesday at a New York at an event on global development sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (we don’t know if he was paid his usual $400,000 speaking fee). There, he said the GOP effort to repeal his Affordable Care Act would inflict “real human suffering” on millions of Americans.

But many experts agree Obamacare is on thin ice. Major health insurers in some states recently sought increases as high as 30% or more for premiums on 2018 plans. “Big insurers in Idaho, West Virginia, South Carolina, Iowa and Wyoming are seeking to raise premiums by averages close to 30% or more,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

Still, Obama says it’s just downright mean for Republicans to try to repeal the failing system. “When I see people trying to undo that hard-won progress for the 50th or 60th time, it is aggravating.”

Obama said the new GOP plan would make deny coverage to cancer survivors, pregnant women, and children with asthma “without any … common sense rationale.” Of course, none of that’s true, but when did facts ever get in the way with Obama?

“But it was better, so when I see people trying to undo that hard-won progress for the 50th or 60th time with bills that would raise costs or reduce coverage or roll back protections for older Americans or people with pre-existing conditions, the cancer survivor or the expecting mom or child with autism or asthma, for whom coverage would once again be untenable, it is aggravating. And all of this being done without any demonstrable economic or actuarial or plain common sense rationale. It frustrates—and it is certainly frustrating to have to mobilize every couple months to keep our leaders from inflicting real human suffering on our constituents,” Obama said.

“But typically, that’s how progress is won, and how progress is maintained.”

Seventeen Obamacare co-ops have now failed,” Americans for Tax Reform reported Wednesday. “The Health Republic insurance of New Jersey yesterday announced it would close, leaving 35,000 members without coverage next year. … They have failed to become sustainable with many collapsing amid the failure of Obamacare exchanges.”

And there are more shoes to fall.

(First reported by The Daily Wire) http://www.dailywire.com/news/21374/obama-gop-trying-inflict-real-human-suffering-joseph-curl   (September 21, 2017) 


Want more BFT? Leave us a voicemail on our page or follow us on Twitter @BFT_Podcast and Facebook @BluntForceTruthPodcast. We want to hear from you! There’s no better place to get the #BluntForceTruth.