Top 10 Worst Quotes: Media Pushes ObamaCare

If only the stupid public realized how great ObamaCare is By Geoffrey Dickens Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C.  They predicted Americans would embrace ObamaCare once they experienced it. Respected media outlets even claimed it would reduce the deficit." They warned any obstruction of ObamaCare by conservatives the Tea Party or Republicans in Congress would result in the death of children and the end of America as a world power." The following is a Top 10 List of the Worst Liberal Media Quotes Pushing ObamaCare.   While the liberal media may finally be admitting the obvious -- that the ObamaCare rollout has been an embarrassing" botched" failure that has thrown millions off their insurance -- thats not what they were predicting about the Affordable Care Act when it was first introduced. Not long ago they assured their viewers that they could keep their health plans if they liked them.

10. Dont Believe the Noise About Not Being Able to Keep Your Healthcare Plan

Barack Obama: If you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan." Correspondent David Wright: And thats true for 95 of people. According to the Congressional Budget Office an estimated 9 million people who currently have insurance through their jobs would end up changing their insurance plans but not necessarily changing their doctors.... The facts are the bill includes tax breaks and mandates designed to prevent a mass exodus from the current employer-based system. But finding the facts in the midst of the noise can be difficult." ABCs David Wright on the August 11 2009 World News fact-checking" opponents claims that people will be thrown off their insurance.

9. You Seniors Are Going to Like ObamaCare

Millions of seniors are about to get their first taste of health care reform and a lot of them will probably like it. For the first time the 45 million seniors on Medicare can get free annual physicals no more co-payments. Theyll get free screenings for diabetes and cancer.... Advocates say most of these first provisions taking effect are quite popular and will be hard for anyone to take away." Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson on the December 31 2010 CBS Evening News.

8. If Only Stupid Public Realized How Great ObamaCare Is

The history of big social legislation like this is that there is this period before it kicks in before people get used to the benefits where theres a lot of anxiety.... Theres a lot of anxiety in the public but theres not a sense of all the good things that could come." New York Times correspondent Matt Bai on ABCs This Week April 1 2012.

7. Yes We Did ... Ruin Americas Health Care System

Yes we did..... Without this concrete achievement as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kept warning her troops Democrats would have been stuck with their votes for reform bills and nothing to show for them. The real and imagined flaws of their proposed system would have been hung around their necks yet they would have had no way of demonstrating its advantages. With success comes the chance to defend what is in many of its particulars the sort of plan a majority of Americans said they wanted. Yes it is imperfect and it wont come cheap. But it fills a gaping hole in the American social insurance system. It affords protections that Americans had long hoped for against insurance-company practices that could deny them coverage. It also grants the security of knowing that sickness would not carry the threat of bankruptcy.... By temperament the president is more a consensus builder than a warrior. But he is also a practical man who wants to accomplish big things. On Sunday he did just that on health care and he earned a place in history." Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne in a March 22 2010 column.

6. Just Wait Until Public Sees How Much ObamaCare is Going to Benefit Them

On health care thats partly a failure of communication it seem to me. How do you go a year and a half where so many Americans dont even understand the benefits of this legislation when they apply to them?" New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on NBCs Meet the Press April 1 2012.

5. NBC Doc: If We Dont Get ObamaCare Passed Were Not Going to be A Great World Power

As a physician you know I felt like I understood the complexity of the problem. As an American citizen I was rooting for the President to hit a home run.... Were going to pay big time if we dont get this Obamas health care plan. I dont think were going to be a great world power." NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman on a special edition of MSNBCs Hardball following President Obamas July 22 2009 press conference.

4. ObamaCare Will Reduce the Deficit!

The Senate Finance Committee said today it will vote on its reform plan next week and according to a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office the plan costs less than expected and would actually reduce the deficit. So why do Republicans still oppose it?" Fill-in anchor Maggie Rodriguez on the CBS Evening News October 8 2009.

3. Once Morons Understand ObamaCare Theyll Be Thrilled

A lot of people are going to like the health care bill a whole lot once they see whats in it. For the first time its got some long-term care in it which everybody is desperate for as the population gets older. Its paid for totally paid-for long-term care insurance. So I think that theres a lot in the bill that people are going to like. Its just a question of understanding it." ABCs Cokie Roberts on This Week December 20 2009.

2. Failure to Uphold ObamaCare = Death Sentence for Toddler

CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen: These nine Supreme Court Justices will forever affect the life of 3-year-old Violet McManus. to Julie Walters Violets mother Are you worried about what the Supreme Court might do?" Julie Walters: Im really scared. Very scared. Like I cant sleep scared." Cohen: Violets mother Julie knows if the Justices overturn health care reform Violet will lose her health insurance. Walters: Tell me why its scary for you." Walters: Our daughter could die and theres nothing we can do about it." CNN Newsroom March 27 2012.

1. Ignore Republican Lies: ObamaCare Is Best Thing in 50 Years

Republicans have spent their summer running around the country at town halls lying about ObamaCare. Im not going to let them off the hook.... Lemme tell you something; One year from right now when all the positive stories are floating around America about what ObamaCare has done for people theyre gonna be saying Well I really wasnt against it. Make no mistake. ObamaCare saves lives and it is good for America. You know so much of what we see in the news is negative. But you know what? Its not negative. This is the most positive thing that this country has done since the civil rights legislation that was passed back in the 60s. And of course we know theyre trying to go after that too." Ed Schultz on MSNBCs The Ed Show August 26 2013.

BONUS QUOTE: Healthcare.gov is So Easy to Use

This is the Web site folks healthcare.gov. If you go to this Web site you will find out how easy it is to read how easy it is to navigate all the information all the basic questions and all the direction you need to take to get involved to get health care. This is a great guide if I may say for any of you out there who feel so confused by all of these right-wing commercials that are just permeating through your television screen." Ed Schultz on MSNBCs The Ed Show September 30 2013.