Biden himself, though, has done nothing except continue to defend this money-eater.
It comes on top of skyrocketing oil costs, rising home prices, out-of-control education costs, and inflation not seen since the days of Jimmy Carter. But sitting in the background, there's always the big spectacular inflationary record of health insurance premiums, led by Obamacare, which Biden has defended and entrenched as president. That's part of the failure of big government and all its false promises. And it's also the Biden record for incompetence alongside all the other failures of his administration.
Barack Obama Plans White House Return to Cheer Obamacare with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday will make his first return to the White House since leaving office where he will join President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to applaud the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Obama is scheduled to “deliver remarks celebrating the success of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid in extending affordable health insurance to millions of Americans as part of the President’s agenda to cut costs for American families,” according to a White House agenda seen by the Hill.
Ongoing efforts to strengthen the act are expected to be touched on, adding to a policy first signed 12 years ago during Obama’s first term in office.
File/U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Temple Emanu-El November 6, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. Obama spoke about the Affordable Care Act amid technical problems which have hurt the rollout of the healthcare marketplace. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“Twelve years ago, I proudly stood beside President Barack Obama as he signed into law the most consequential expansion of health care in generations: the Affordable Care Act,” Biden said in a statement marking the anniversary of the policy.
“With the stroke of a pen — after decades of tireless efforts — millions of Americans gained peace of mind. And because of my Administration’s efforts, including passing the landmark American Rescue Plan, we have lowered health care costs and made coverage more accessible than ever before — even amid a global pandemic,” the president added.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has already revealed she believes her greatest accomplishment in the political realm is Obamacare, as Breitbart News reported.
Whether or not Biden feels the same way remains to be seen.
Last year the president said his Build Back Better plan was a bigger deal than Obama’s Affordable Care Act, as Breitbart News reported.
Biden outlined why he backed his plan against Obama’s, telling an interviewer: “It is bigger because — not because what he did wasn’t enormous, he broke the ice, enormous. But part of what I have in here is we also increased access to The Affordable Care Act, and we reduced the price an average of 60 bucks a month for anyone in The Affordable Care act plus, on top of that, we have another $300 billion of healthcare in it.
“So I would say this is a bigger darn deal.”
NO ONE SERVED WALL STREET AND BIG BANKSTERS MORE THAN BARCK OBAMA! ONE MORE LYING GAMER LAWYER!
Anybody watching what Obamacare's costs have been doing lately?
This wouldn't exactly be news to anyone who has to buy Obamacare health care insurance...
But for perspective, here's the latest on the 2010 government health care takeover that had been so vaunted in the press as Your-Government-Here-To-Help:
Tripled? We've got 7.9% inflation at last count, so this 'tripling,' even over the course of 12 years, with compounding increments, tops that.
So much for President Obama's claim that his signature health care bill would cut insurance costs and everyone would be so grateful and happy.
The archived White House website page had all the promises of rainbows and unicorns:
The Affordable Care Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in March 2010, gives middle class families better health security by putting in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will hold insurance companies accountable, lower health care costs, guarantee more choice, and enhance the quality of care for all Americans.
Obamacare, though, was far from just Obama's baby. Its loudest cheerleader was "b-f-d" Joe Biden:
Who, since then, has continued to tout Obamacare, promising to "repair and renew it" as if such perfection could ever need such a thing, given the hype.
According to Politico, which took us back to the Democrat primaries of 2020:
Many Democrats to [Biden's] left, starting with Bernie Sanders and his “Medicare for All” proposal, called for scrapping the Affordable Care Act entirely in favor of a more sweeping government-financed single-payer health system. Biden resisted. He instead pledged to build on the existing law — a position that kept him in the center of the debate, while reminding Democratic voters of his role in passing the biggest health reform since Medicare.
Obamacare had survived the Trump administration’s attempts to repeal and replace it. Biden promised to repair and renew it. Fully realizing the promise of the sprawling legislation means addressing all three of its goals: expanding coverage, curbing costs and improving the still uneven quality of American health care.
In his first year in office Biden had some early successes getting more Americans covered — but his efforts have since stalled out.
Politico doesn't even get into the fact that the program to cut health care costs has actually delivered soaring costs.
It's bad out there, which highlights the growing failure of the program. Politico notes that various subsidies will be coming to an end just as the midterms start.
Even David Axelrod is complaining:
Axelrod? Wow.
Turns out that Obamacare, which replaced a marketplace of health care plans however imperfect (given that government interference was pretty strong even then), got replaced with a one-size-fits-all government plan of certain requirements and naturally, a monopoly for a few chosen companies that could jump through all the hoops. As entrenched monopolies, that led to the obvious thing -- a cartel that could create higher costs, or whose costs snowballed and could only pass the costs onto consumers. Obamacare was miles ahead of the current inflation now engulfing the country, piling up one hike after another over the course of 12 years well beyond inflation, and we're into 'triple.'
Naturally, the giant corporations, which are masters of scale on a one-size-fits-all program, were the big beneficiaries, as noted in the original tweet, rather than the little guy who's seen his health insurance premiums soar. Giant corporations are wokester outfits these days and all in on donating to Democrats. Funny how that works. Somehow, Democrats always manage to take care of the big guys.
Politico piously claims for Biden:
Equity, for instance, is also about cost, coverage and quality. And cost, coverage and quality are also about equity.
We don't hear much about that from Biden these days. It's not that his minions have not been busy -- but where they have, they've made things worse.
According to MedPage, a trade journal:
[Obama health care advisor Ezekiel] Emanuel's arguments would be more credible if he had identified even one ACA policy that reduced costs. But the only ACA policy he mentioned was a program that, he writes, "required reducing ... wasteful readmissions."
This would be the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), a dangerous program that should be terminated immediately. The HRRP's proponents claimed it would cut costs and improve health by penalizing hospitals for "too many" hospital readmissions. But the evidence now indicates this program is backfiring. Well-controlled studies show the HRRP may have raised the mortality rate among heart failure and pneumonia patients by reducing necessary readmissions, and it has not cut costs.
We share Emanuel's commitment to an efficient healthcare system with evidence-based price controls. But cheerleading from academic leaders about the false achievements of futile, and sometimes harmful, cost-containment policies has unintended consequences for health and efficiency, and it undermines our ability to build a universal, affordable healthcare system. We already have reliable methods to evaluate the successes and failures of national cost-control policies. Congress and the President must base future health policies on solid evidence of benefits without patient harms. And if we have the guts to be honest, we will acknowledge that learning from failure can be the key to future success.
Biden himself, though, has done nothing except continue to defend this money-eater.
It comes on top of skyrocketing oil costs, rising home prices, out-of-control education costs, and inflation not seen since the days of Jimmy Carter. But sitting in the background, there's always the big spectacular inflationary record of health insurance premiums, led by Obamacare, which Biden has defended and entrenched as president. That's part of the failure of big government and all its false promises. And it's also the Biden record for incompetence alongside all the other failures of his administration.
Obama to return to White House to celebrate health care reform
WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden, a White House official said.
The celebration of the 2010 health care overhaul will be their first joint appearance since they attended events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at Ground Zero in New York last fall, the official said.
Vice President Kamala Harris will join them in delivering remarks about the expansion of health care benefits under the law, as well as Biden’s efforts to further reduce health care costs and expand access to care, the official added.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and other members of the Cabinet, which includes a number of people who served in the Obama administration, are also expected to attend.
The event will mark Biden and Obama's first appearance in Washington since Biden was inaugurated in January 2021.
In a video the White House released in June, Obama and Biden discussed Democratic efforts on affordable health care.
“Joe Biden, we did this together. We always talked about how if we could get the principle of universal coverage established, we could then build on it,” Obama said in the video.
Obama is likely to return to the White House again soon for the unveiling of his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s official presidential portraits.
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