ObamaCare too costly for the rich Colorado residents, Dem congressman says

One of President Obama’s most ardent liberal supporters has defected from Obamacare.

Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, told a Colorado health policy think tank that Obamacare premiums will be too expensive for some of the wealthiest addresses in America – ski resorts like Breckenridge and Keystone. He says he’s asking the feds to let them sit out the president’s national health system.

“We will be encouraging a waiver,” Polis told Health Policy Solutions in a story that ran today. “It will be difficult for Summit County residents to become insured. For the vast majority, it’s too high a price to pay.”

The resorts are in Summit County and Aspen is in a neighboring county, which Polis also represents. He has consistently voted in favor of Obamacare.

Polis also wrote to Colorado’s insurance commissioner asking why an average 40-year-old mountaintop resident would have to fork over $427.80 a month while counterparts in Denver would pay $296.41 for the same plan.

All of this sounded a bit hypocritical to the Colorado Republican Party.

“Why not seek a waiver or delay for every Coloradoan or every American for that matter?” Colorado GOP Chairman Ryan Call told Watchdog. “Labor unions, big corporations, other politically connected friends of the Obama administration and Summit County are justified in seeking a waiver but what about others?”

Summit County has approximately 1,200 more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Polis Chief of Staff Brian Branton did not respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment.

President Obama has come under fire from Republicans who say Americans will have to endure higher healthcare costs under the Affordable Care Act. While Obama steadfastly maintains that it will be lower costs for all, critics say premiums for the average American not signing up for Obamacare could triple or worse.

So far, Democrats have remained mostly united. Polis has become the party’s highest-profile defector.

“If it’s good enough to seek a waiver for a county that’s a friend of the administration, couldn’t everybody?” Call asked.

http://watchdog.org/112405/the-rich-obamacare/

 

last night in hanity some democrat spin liar lady was blaming the republicans.... she did not even care that no republican voted for it.

She blamed some amendment some senator had wanted.

The fact no republican voted for it... did not stop her from lying.

 

It seems that CBS is finally waking up to the fact that the so-called “Affordable Care Act” might just be a misnomer.

From CBS News:

The Affordable Care Act was signed by President Obama in 2010 and since then he has repeated one reassuring phrase: “If you like your insurance plan you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen in the future.”

But it is happening. The president’s health care law raises the standards for insurance policies, which many consider to be a good thing. But hundreds of thousands of Americans whose policies don’t meet the new standards are being told that their health plans are being cancelled....

 

The more fervent liberals in general and the leftist media in particular have completely jumped the shark when it comes to fabrication misinformation rhetoric and out right lying.

They're making Joseph Goebbels look like a Boy Scout.

 

While the media surprisingly focus attention on the disastrous rollout of the health insurance exchanges, the bigger story is the number of Americans that are seeing their premiums explode as a result of the so-called "Affordable Care Act."

Kudos therefore go to the the Los Angeles Times which began a Sunday article titled "Some Health Insurance Gets Pricier as Obamacare Rolls Out" with the equally surprising lead, "Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don't like what they see":

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2iwcKAfch

 

Rich liberals want out of the socialism they helped bring about?

 

Yep, and we've seen this many times before.

They want to ban our guns while keeping their own.
They want our kids in diverse crappy public schools while theirs attend all white private schools.
They want us to pay higher taxes while they avoid the same taxes.
And on and on and on...