Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Texas
Related: About this forumRick Perry: You can’t dress up the failures of Obamacare
[font color=navy]Perry wrote this essay exclusively for The Dallas Morning News.[/font]The promise and potential I normally greet each New Year with is, this year, being tested by a great sense of peril as Americans face the full brunt of the disastrous impacts of Obamacare in 2014. The delays, deceit and debacles that marked Obamacares rollout in 2013 show no signs of slowing in the new year.
People all across the country have witnessed what a disaster this program has been from its earliest stages, ranging from the $600 million website debacle to the sad fact that President Barack Obama flat-out deceived the American people when he promised that those who like their coverage could keep it. To stem the bleeding, the administration is resorting to arbitrary delays for some Obamacare mandates, which only inject more confusion into the marketplace and with consumers.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the president are left with selling a faltering program to an American public that has rightfully become more and more concerned with what its learning about this law.
Much of what sold Obamacare in the first place was the administrations assertions that we could trust them, and that even though nobody could explain precisely how or why, Obamacare would make everything better. It hasnt. Sadly, it takes more than empty assertions to fix what ails Obamacare.
More at http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20131231-rick-perry-you-cant-dress-up-the-failures-of-obamacare.ece .
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
7 replies, 1382 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (1)
ReplyReply to this post
7 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Rick Perry: You can’t dress up the failures of Obamacare (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jan 2014
OP
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)1. BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Said the guy who is about to accept the expanded Medicaid Coverage offer....
Cha
(297,184 posts)3. Rick Perry.. Mr One Two..
"I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops."
Department of Energy! It's a Tough one, genius.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-perry-fails-to-remember-what-agency-hed-get-rid-of-in-gop-debate/
Department of Energy! It's a Tough one, genius.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-perry-fails-to-remember-what-agency-hed-get-rid-of-in-gop-debate/
Skittles
(153,153 posts)2. fuck you Perry
corrupt repuke bastard
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)4. Perry is screwing million of people by not expanding Medicaid
We need to motivate the people being screwed by Perry. Texas Democrats are pushing a program called "Texas Left Me Out". http://www.democraticunderground.com/107813898
Javaman
(62,521 posts)5. 1) it's amazing that cement head perry knows how to write...
2) he more than likely dictated the "main points" and a flunky filled in the rest.
3) cement head perry is a greedy opportunist fuck.
DuckBurp
(302 posts)6. I hope someone rebuts or responds to his essay in the DMN
Not me, though. Someone who has a really good grasp of the facts.
RussBLib
(9,006 posts)7. he meant, "You can't dress up my failures."
Republicans are masters of projection. Freud actually had them in mind. Freud was way ahead of his time.
Flippant? Sure. Why not?