[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Former White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett argued that the legislative process for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was "open and honest" and "all very transparent" compared to the GOP’s healthcare bill.
Jarrett slammed the Trump administration for not effectively "marketing" Obamacare to get more Americans to sign up for coverage.
"I mean, we had hundreds of meetings. We made hundreds of amendments. It was all very transparent. We invited the Republicans in for an open press session to answer all of their questions. It was a collaborative effort. The intent was to make it bipartisan and the intent was to be open and honest with the American people. Our scoring was put out for everybody to see because we wanted people to understand, before a decision was made, what was at stake and what we were trying to accomplish," Jarrett said during a Democrats Live event on Wednesday evening.
"Right now, everyone was scurrying around this week to read a very long and complicated bill, and the question you have to say was, ’if they’re proud of it, why were they hiding it behind closed doors?’ And my real hot-button was why were 13 men in a room deciding about healthcare that impacts my life? You have 21 women in the Senate. They couldn’t have picked one of those women to be there?" she added.
Jarrett criticized the Republican effort to roll back the Obamacare requirement that all health insurance plans cover maternity care.
"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
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#4
When a large business is failing you see them closing 'non productive' stores (See - Sears et al). How many counties are now without Obamacare exchanges? Reality is something beyond the comprehension of the Left (See - Venezuela)
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Pardon me while I try to stop this nose bleed that reading her drivel gave me.
Can you freaking believe the gall of this woman, with all of the behind closed door stuff that has come out about how they deliberately lied to Congress, the American people, and to each other to pass a "health care reform" bill that is essentially a major payoff to the health insurance industry and so full of contradictory clauses that it has essentially petrified the health care industry and caused health care costs to freaking SOAR to astronomical new levels.
SO the CBO says that the new bill will cause 22 million to lose coverage. Okay Obamaboys, how many are going to lose coverage THIS DAMN YEAR as insurance companies continue to abandon exchanges.
The original bill was foisted off on us as a way to cover 32 million people who did not have health coverage, never mind that almost half of those did so because they were affluent or were very young and didn't seem to want it. The net result, which no one in the media will say, is that MORE people are without coverage NOW than before Obumblecare was passed. Millions lost coverage under sweetheart deal exemptions, millions more abandoned coverage because the mandatory coverages made it too expensive, and millions more lost what coverage they had before Obumblecare because their companies couldn't afford it.
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"Our scoring was put out for everybody to see because we wanted people to understand, before a decision was made, what was at stake and what we were trying to accomplish"
Jonathan Gruber was curiously unavailable for comment, as was Ben Rhodes.
#9
Hey, Obamacare sells itself. If Trump cannot get a deal through congress, then congress, the whole lot of them, can hang the Obamatross from their necks, just like the Ancient Mariner. And do some kind of penance.
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#10
She's right. They were "all very transparent". The law wasn't and they were known liars
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#11
I'm not interested in one goddamn thing any member of the Obama administration has to say unless its under oath while being questioned by a Federal prosecutor.
[LawNewz] Comedian and actress Kathy Griffin has reportedly been interviewed by the U.S. Secret Service for more than an hour. The investigation is connected to a recent photograph which showed her holding the bloody head of Donald Trump.
Griffin’s attorney contends that the actress was just exercising her constitutional rights.
"She basically exercised her First Amendment rights to tell a joke," Dmitry Gorin, a criminal defense attorney representing Griffin said. "When you look at everything in the media, all the times entertainers make videos or express themselves in other ways, you’ve never seen an entertainer, let alone a comedian, be subject to a criminal investigation."
As we previously reported, don’t expect her to be arrested for the crude photo.
This revelation lead Obama ethics Czar Norm Eisen to tweet out this follow up question.
There is an exception for free speech that incites violence, but a judge would probably consider Griffin’s photo "crude political hyperbole." With that said, the investigation is still ongoing. "Fresh as a Flower in Just one Hour or maybe a little more."
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"She basically exercised her First Amendment rights to tell a joke,"
So let me get this straight. Kathy Griffin can "joke" about beheading Trump because she has the right to do so. The left is OK with this and thinks the right is ridiculous.
Trump, on the other hand, retweets a video of him body slamming "CNN" and the left deems him to be nuts and floats trial balloons about having him deposed because of this.
Nothing of course. The left belongs in *nothing*...other than a lust for power. They would (and will) sell out every single thing they pretend to stand for (other than abortion) so long as in doing so they imagine they are gaining more power.
They are the party that quite literally stands for *nothing*...only that THEY should be the ones pulling the strings.
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When you're in an interview room for 60 mins, and you and your lawyer spend 45 mins arguing about rights etc, they didn't question you for a hour. They questioned you for 15 mins.
The Secret Service has long (since Roosevelt) had 'enhanced' rules for questioning and interviews in the case of perceived threats to the President. For instance, No Knock warrants are quite usual in this context.
(Just as an aside, shouldn't someone with that complexion stay out of the sun? I mean, vampires and all...)
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This creature is the kind that is needy of validation and the sense of support, only then does she feel brave to act as if she has courage...the power of the act of interrogation is as much in the anxiety and anticipation of the interviewee as in the actual questioning, for this one, the projections about what might be, ruination, arrest, secrets discovered, would have been significant.
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