Obama: Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked Obamacare

President Obama signaled in an exclusive interview with radio hosts Tom Joyner and Sybil Wilkes that Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked his health care plan for Americans.

We were just talking with some folks earlier about the fact that, for a lot of people, it will be cheaper than your cell phone bill," Obama explained.

Cheaper than your phone bill !

Everyone does have access to healthcare.Don't know why he felt the need to LIE.



Well if it was anything like those FREE 'Obama' phones then it will be cheaper than your phone bill. since those are FREE!.

Free is what Obama means by 'affordable'.

Can't believe Obama actually had the nerve to make such a blatant asinine comment.

reply to post by neo96

Cheaper than my phone bill?

That's going to be pretty tough because I don't have a phone and he can keep his Obama-phones. Actually he can keep his Obamacare as well. If I'd have had Obamacare during my lifetime the death panels would have already let me die. No thanks.

Obama is desperate ... name dropping.
No one likes Obamacare. Not even the unions like it anymore.
They finally figured out what it is all about ... and it ain't pretty.

What he actually said acording to the article.

Oh he’d like that,” Obama asserted. “Well, because he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege, it’s something in a county as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.”

Obama: Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked Obamacare

Seems pretty obvious that King would have been pleased that everyone had health insurance.

As to being cheaper than some peoples phone bill? Only time will tell. But without Single Payer, I doubt it.

DrumsRfun:Hitler would have loved Obama.

Using the media and propaganda....where have I seen this type of manipulation before??

As a christian Rev, I am sure he would of loved the thought of all children being taken care of.

As a civil rights leader he might be leading marches on WA right this very moment calling for Obama to be kicked out.

Obama would not want a Rev. King in this day in age, he would be chief opponent of this government, he would get assassinated...

Hey wait a sec...

Originally posted by BritofTexas
What he actually said acording to the article.

Oh he’d like that,” Obama asserted. “Well, because he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege, it’s something in a county as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.”

Obama: Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked Obamacare

Seems pretty obvious that King would have been pleased that everyone had health insurance.

As to being cheaper than some peoples phone bill? Only time will tell. But without Single Payer, I doubt it.

This country ain't wealthy, and it is no business of the federal government to tell me what I need.

it’s something in a county as wealthy as ours,

This comment says everything wrong with him. his reach has exceeded his grasp. Which is why this nation is $17 trillion dollars and climbing.

We have 60 million on Medicare.
We have 60 million on Medicaid

With Obamacare adding 30 million new people.

That is 150 million Americans on government ran healthcare making them the SINGLE largest healthcare provider in the country.

There is not a single private business that has so many. That is all financed off our backs. Because that 150 million are not paying for what they are using. What little they are is made up from the rest of the country.

That is sheer insanity. There is no effing way that can sustain itself.

Well if that isn't a whopper for an assumption.

What about this

A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dropped the ball on that one. What about this one:

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whoopsy again ?

This is a good one

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seems to me there may be more then just a little bit of a disconnect between the ideologies of these two men..

reply to post by neo96

We were just talking with some folks earlier about the fact that, for a lot of people, it will be cheaper than your cell phone bill,"

If my health care costs were only twice what my cell phone bill is, I would be very happy!

I really think that this President has lost his marbles, if he thinks that he can say crap like this and believe that anyone will fall for it.

Originally posted by MDDoxs

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

That one right there, thats the one you shove in every idiots face that cries think of the children.

We are not addressing the root causes of any of these problems.

reply to post by MDDoxs

Posts like this make me wish I could give multiple stars.

Spot on.

Originally posted by DrumsRfun

Using the media and propaganda....where have I seen this type of manipulation before??

Benjamin Franklin?

reply to post by neo96


So....

“What do you think he’d say about Obamacare?” asked Joyner, when discussing King’s legacy.

Was the QUESTION HE WAS ASKED...

How should he have responded?

"I don't know?"

Then your OP Headline is "Obama doesn't know if Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked Obamacare!"

Having a hard time finding it scandalous that the President answered a question the way most rational people would expect him to.

“Oh he’d like that,” Obama asserted. “Well, because he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege, it’s something in a county as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.”

Originally posted by Indigo5
reply to post by neo96

 

So....

“What do you think he’d say about Obamacare?” asked Joyner, when discussing King’s legacy.

Was the QUESTION HE WAS ASKED...

How should he have responded?

"I don't know?"

Then your OP Headline is "Obama doesn't know if Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked Obamacare!"

Having a hard time finding it scandalous that the President answered a question the way most rational people would expect him to.

“Oh he’d like that,” Obama asserted. “Well, because he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege, it’s something in a county as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.”

If he was honest he would have said 'I don't know'.
But we should expect him to have given the answer that he did. Why be honest if you are a politician?

Originally posted by BritofTexas
What he actually said acording to the article.

Oh he’d like that,” Obama asserted. “Well, because he understood that health care, health security is not a privilege, it’s something in a county as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.”

Obama: Martin Luther King Jr. would have liked Obamacare

Seems pretty obvious that King would have been pleased that everyone had health insurance.

MLK? ...Hell the GOP would have been pleased that everyone had health insurance, until the first Black Democrat President tried to get it done. The GOP even tried to pass the mandate twice in the early 90's.

in 1989, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation proposed a plan he called “Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans.” Stuart’s plan included a provision to “mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance,”

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In 1992 and 1993, some Republicans in Congress, seeking an alternative to Hillarycare, used these ideas as a foundation for their own health-reform proposals. One such bill, the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993, or HEART, was introduced in the Senate by John Chafee (R., R.I.) and co-sponsored by 19 other Senate Republicans, including Christopher Bond, Bob Dole, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Richard Lugar, Alan Simpson, and Arlen Specter. Given that there were 43 Republicans in the Senate of the 103rd Congress, these 20 comprised nearly half of the Republican Senate Caucus at that time. The HEART Act proposed health insurance vouchers for low-income individuals, along with an individual mandate.

www.forbes.com...

Originally posted by butcherguy

If he was honest he would have said 'I don't know'.
But we should expect him to have given the answer that he did. Why be honest if you are a politician?

He is a politician, not Spock, and if your intent is to hold politicians to Vulcan standards over petty things like this than there are about 1.5 Million stories you need to be chasing for the past month alone.

reply to post by Indigo5

We were just talking with some folks earlier about the fact that, for a lot of people, it will be cheaper than your cell phone bill," Obama explained.

Yeah that is such a 'rational' response.

Seriously ?

reply to post by Indigo5


Then why did Not a single House repblican vote for it ?

Stop race baiting btw.

I'm betting UPS workers aren't really fond of Obamacare right now...as some spouses are being dumped from their healthcare in 2014
live.wsj.com/
same with UofVa...
news.virginia.edu...

It's always been more convenient to have the whole family on the same plan...same doctors...same coverage........but that seems to be ending as employers try to find ways to cope with the financial mess that is Obamacare.

reply to post by DontTreadOnMe


I saw that. I use to work for UPS they had the best healthcare around.

Everyone and everything was already covered, and along comes Obama, and his 'your healthcare is going to be cheaper than your phone bill'.

I swear.