Bob Kerrey: Obama Knew He Was Lying About Health Insurance
Monday, 31 Mar 2014 12:04 PM
By Drew MacKenzie
Former Sen. Bob Kerrey said President Barack Obama must have known he was
lying when he told Americans they could keep their insurance plans under his
signature healthcare reform act.
"He had to know he was
misleading the audience," the Nebraska Democrat said about Obama's pledge
as he was touting his Affordable Care Act.
In an interview with the Daily
Mail, he said, "'On the other hand, he may have said it so many times that
the spell-checker wasn't in the room — the spell-checker, the fact-checker —
somebody who says, 'Excuse me, Mr. President, but I hope you know this.'"
Kerrey, who was a candidate for
the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, said Obama's
"promise" was never going to be carried out because "there were
a million people out there with policies that, for one reason or another, run
short of the minimum standard. I mean, they bought something cheaper."
The former Nebraska governor, who served in that position from 1983 to 1987,
told the newspaper that Obama has actually made an even worse lie about
healthcare coverage than the one he's known for, that is, "Everybody
deserves high-quality, affordable healthcare."
Sarcastically, Kerrey added,
"I don't know if you've heard about the bell curve? If I've got 1,000
doctors, 100 are great, and 100 are not so good. It's absolutely impossible.
And affordable? Forget about it."
Kerrey, who was a U.S.
senator from 1989 to 2001, also slammed the president for bringing out Obamacare at a time when the economy
was floundering.
"I wouldn't have done
healthcare," Kerrey said. "I think the big mistake was to say, 'Whew!
We've got the stimulus done. OK, the economy's going to come bouncing back in
12 months, let's do healthcare.' Only the economy didn't come bouncing back.
"We're teetering on the edge
of going out of business through most of 2009. And I think you need to just
keep driving, driving on the economy, and make it as bipartisan as
possible."
Kerrey, who was beaten by
Republican Deb Fischer in 2012 when he tried to win back his old Senate seat,
also took a shot at Democrats for handing out entitlements, which could
eventually bankrupt the country, the Daily Mail reported.
"We're robbing from the
future to pay for the past," he said. "We just are. And we're
shoveling more and more money to people over the age of 65."
Kerrey claimed that neither the
Democrats nor the Republicans are willing to take the first step toward cutting
benefits for retirees or raising the retirement age. "'It's the one thing
R's and D's can agree on," he said. "Don't screw with seniors."
Kerrey also said he believes that
Obama was re-elected in 2012 because former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney did
not set the bar high enough.
"After the 2012 election,
what the president needed was somebody to say, 'Mr. President, I'm thrilled you
won. You stand for all the things I support. But honestly, you won this
election because you sucked less than Romney."'
Bob Kerrey
J.
Robert Kerrey was a U.S. Senate
senator, the Nebraska state government governor, a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a council of advisor’s
member for Global Green USA.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sundance Institute, and the Committee
for Economic Development.
Leonardo DiCaprio
is a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and a board member for the Global Green USA.
Global Green USA
is a US
affiliate of Green Cross International.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is the founder of Green Cross
International, and was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Robert
Redford is a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, the founder & president of the Sundance Institute, and an honorary board
member for Green Cross International.
Robert Redford
Robert Redford is an honorary board
member for Green Cross International.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute, and a board member for Global
Green USA.
Christopher H.
Shays is a council of advisor’s member for Global Green USA, and was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
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Monday, March 31, 2014
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