Libtards hailed Buffett on taxes, but ignore his advice on health care

[dario73]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/warren-buffett-scrap-obamacare-and-start-over_756302.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

You know things are bad for President Obama when even Warren Buffett has soured on Obamacare and says that "we need something else." Money Morning writes:



"Healthcare costs in the United States are like a tapeworm eating at our economic body.

"Those words come from famed investor Warren Buffett, who said he would scrap Obamacare and start all over.

"'We have a health system that, in terms of costs, is really out of control,' he added. 'And if you take this line and you project what has been happening into the future, we will get less and less competitive. So we need something else.'

"Buffett insists that without changes to Obamacare average citizens will suffer.

"'What we have now is untenable over time,' said Buffett, an early supporter of President Obama. 'That kind of a cost compared to the rest of the world is really like a tapeworm eating, you know, at our economic body.'

"Buffett does not believe that providing insurance for everyone is the first step to take in correcting our nation's healthcare system.

"'Attack the costs first, and then worry about expanding coverage,' he said. 'I would much rather see another plan that really attacks costs. And I think that's what the American public wants to see. I mean, the American public is not behind this bill.'"

[JOHN MATRIX]

Bad news for O...

[Soul Crusher]

Only an idiot didn't realize what disaster ObamaCare was going to be 

[Jack T. Cross]

Dario: Would it be fair to say you hail this, at the same time you reject his message on taxes?

[Straw Man]

Weird article
Quote from Buffett was from 2010 and no explanation or link to the full text

I wonder why Repubs (btw it looks like the Weekly Standard just copied this from a "article" written by "the staff" at www.morningmoney.com....whatever that is) feel the need to recycle old comments taken out of context

Do they think their constituents are lazy or stupid and can't find the full comments

If the weekly Standard wants to write an article about Obamacare in 2013 can't they at least make the effort to get a timely quote from Buffet

Buffet is talking about getting costs down and he compares our cost and level of both the # of those insured and the amount of care they get to "other developed countries"

Guess what kind of system those other developed countries utilize to keep their costs down while insuring more people

Also note that he said in this interview in 2010 that if it were a choice of the status quo (which is what Repubs de facto want since they did NOTHING on heathcare reform) then he would choose Obamacare

WATCH the video here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/warren-buffett-on-cnbc-he_n_480399.html

[tonymctones]

reps had plenty of ideas for reforming health care straw, why do you continue to lie?

[Straw Man]

reps had plenty of ideas for reforming health care straw, why do you continue to lie?

Remind us of legislation that Repubs proposed to reform healthcare?

The status quo (as referred to by Buffett) was what we had until Obama was elected and started the path toward Health Care reform

[dario73]

Dario: Would it be fair to say you hail this, at the same time you reject his message on taxes?

Yes, I rejected his message on taxes because he was wrong.

Libtards are the only sheeple on this planet.