‘I’ve Read It on the Obama Website:’ Pro-Obamacare Protester Has Hard Time Defending Her Position
- Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:44am by
Benny Johnson
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“Is The Affordable Care Act Constitutional?”
Who better to ask than the thousands of protesters who gathered to defend their sides of the healthcare debate on the steps of the Supreme Court. We ventured out Tuesday afternoon to see how people were reacting.
All walks showed up. Many heated exchanges ensued. The basic fact remains: The issue of healthcare in America is a personal one, really personal.
Case in point: there was one protester who was adamant that being anti-Obamacare was synonymous with being anti-women. Oddly enough, we noticed her because she was yelling at a Tea Party woman in a motorized wheelchair.* She had a sign reading “Women are not a preexisting condition.” According to her, there are studies that say “women are often charged up to 50 percent more” for the same procedure. When asked what study, she had a hard time explaining.
“I, I’ve read various studies. I can’t point to one right now,” she responded. She had an equally tough time when asked who produced it: “I mean, I’ve read it on the Obama website.”
And would a study on the Obama website have a political agenda?
“Perhaps there is, but I think that it’s difficult for him to be publishing facts that are wrong.”
So if you cant defend the study where did you get the sign?
“I picked it up from down there.”
See for yourself:
However, there were plenty of protesters who carried homemade signs and were not there to scream at the opposition. The majority of people we found in front of the Court were Tea Party members. Still, there were a fair share of colorful people in this cohort (we’ve also included the protester above in the video):
By the way, we visited the Obama website and couldn’t find the study.
*To be fair, we’re not sure exactly what set the woman off. However, we did over hear someone say “you’re not representing women well.”
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Comments (324)
NavyVetGreg
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:24amHealth care is a business, not a right. It is no different than the auto mechanic down the street. PERIOD.Get the government out of health care along with the ambulance chasing lawyers, and health care could be very affordable.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:32amBetter, privately-managed oversight of the costs is also needed. $100 for a box of tissues is not uncommon. The language and coding used to get the insurance companies (mostly Medicare) is unreal. Of course, the progs want the greed and theft in the healthcare system to continue as it advances their goal of collapsing the entire system.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:34amYou’re right NAVYVETGREG. It all needs to start with TORT reform.
Report Post »getourcountryback
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:48amThat’s a 10/4. A million for a cup of hot coffee in your lap, multiple millions for a boob job gone wrong. Doctors, although some are reprehensible, can’t afford the insurance to practice medicine because of all the nut jobs out there just looking for an unearned pay day. TORT REFORM NOW!
Report Post »I_Drink_Your_Milkshake
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:53amNotice how they wouldn’t touch tort reform in the original bill.
Report Post »My brother explained after having to testify for one his coleagues that was sued after allowing a woman to go home from the ER with pain meds, due to a migraine – which she’d had in the past, who later suffered a stroke leaving her paralyzed. She had 2 10-12yo children and and is incapacitaced to a wheelchair now. The doc’s rationalize a $6-8k CTscan away as it’ll be massivly expensive even for soemone with insurance. So all this BS about predeterming what tests will be allowed by O-care in order to reduce costs, is bogus as long as the hospitals/docs are still liable for malpractice resulting from something that is transpiring within our own bodies and they are somehow at fault for not finding it in the economic fashion.
If they want to revise healthcare -/insurance actually they need to bring real docs in – not the AMA which is a total sham.
bccrane
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 11:04amI am one that is uninsured by choice, my family plan was $7500.00 per year in 2008 once “I” dropped the health care coverage I found that any medical expenses are affordable without insurance and in fact cheaper. Obamacare with the mandate will increase my medical expenses per year 5 fold without the extra services and when forced to buy into an insurance plan will increase my medical expenses 50 fold without the extra services, that is unfair to me for there is no opt out provision and paying my own way will be illegal.
Report Post »A simple loser pays tort reform will end much of the frivalous lawsuits.
A problem; if the mandate is struck down but the rest of the bill remains that will be the death of private insurance and we will quickly decend into the depths of single payer and high taxes with no way out, I believe this was the intent all along the mandate was just used to get the insurance companys to play along and was meant to be unconstitutional and struck down just to force the country into single payer by default.
ttexlax
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 5:59pmLeave it to a fellow vet to get it!
Report Post »Texas took on tort reform over a year ago. I nearly cried when the Republican state lawmakers passed it. I knew what was coming! Sure enough! Doctors and medical professionals are pouring into Texas passing trial lawyers on the way out! Naturally a bunch of new jobs in construction and professional healthcare related industries, etc……. Well’ you get the picture.
Why the tears, you ask? Being born and raised in Texas I love the wide open spaces here. Much of that wide open space is being taken up by those interlopers with all their money and jobs and all!
Sheeeeeeeeeh!
possom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:23amHigher education?
Report Post »I_Drink_Your_Milkshake
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 11:02amyes there is alot of dope on college campuses
Report Post »conservcollege
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:14pmtypical college activist, first they get all fired up for something that the comintern has commanded they protest, and then something shiny comes along and distracts them from the reason they are there.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:22am.
Report Post »She was Ok til they shined that light in her eyes…………..
daves
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:34amexcellent!! ..sad and disgusting at the same time..young minds full of MUSH
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:20am@apple bite – EXCELLENT comeback. LOL
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:49amwell darn. they removed the spam post and your reply.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:18amWell, she’s clearly uninformed and misinformed, but maybe (MAYBE) even the interviewer’s questions will help get her to THINK about things–who knows but maybe even the video will. (?)
I think often people repeat things without really thinking them thru. It’s part of the brainwashing of the current admin (as well as past admins). Our country has somewhat lost the art of thinking for ourselves (part of the agenda of our current educational system). I almost think people need to be given some good coffee and encouraged to think things thru and not just accept everything they read or hear (especially on a political web site! Yikes!).
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:39amTHINK . . . .Uh . . .they don’t teach that in Public Progressive schools . . .causes too much . . .Thinking !
Report Post »Rick Steele
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 11:06amDon’t forget her jewel of Civility: “Now you get out of here!”
Right out of Emily Post!
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:15amI guess the reporter could not find the groups that were going to have a pro Obama Care prayer group to ask the Almighty to bless redistributionism. I heard part of the oral arguments yesterday and it seems like the SCOTUS is pondering a justification of the purchase mandate or fine or tax based on the reasoning that the mandate would diminish the need for redistribution. So… the government is saying redistribution is bad? Maybe they meant capitalistic redistribution? Anyway, the government created the redistribution by demanding universal emergency care along with mandates already in place to force insurance companies to keep children on policies well beyond childhood. Obama Care is a perpetual motion machine that creates a problem and then solves it by recreating the problem.
Report Post »YourVoiceMatters
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:14amThis man lies looking into the camera
Report Post »lieing to you
looking you straight in the face and
lieing not once, twice, but a bazillion times in 3 + years
and so you think the web-site will be honest, strait forward and truthful?
one has to ask: where you are on the gullability scale?
or do you think at all?
Apple Bite
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:13amFind God first, then we’ll talk.
Report Post »MrObstat
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:12amThis woman is an embarrassment to her gender — presuming that her gender can be embarrassed.
She initially can’t understand normal thought. This is a problem with certain people.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:27amShe is a simpleton product of the lousy public school system, and likely further propaganda foisted upon her in college. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of great teachers out there, but there are also a lot of lousy teachers backed by their unions. Her parents must be so proud of her video debut.
Report Post »Livia
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:50pmThere are a lot of women out there that make me ashamed to be one.
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:45amHey! Don’t lump all women together! That’s the same thought process that makes all white people racist, all men wife beaters, (if I keep going I am going to get censored)….
Report Post »discus02
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:11amThe Solocitor (sp) General had a hard time trying to explain if it was a tax or a fine. He was the spokeman for the government!
Report Post »Conservative New Yorker
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:11amFunny- all I could hear coming out of her mouth was: Totally tubular, dude!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:46pmFluke’s roommate ……….lack of sleep has taken it’s toll
Report Post »jharper
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:06amWomen are often charged 50% more for medical procedures? She’s mixing that up with dry cleaning!
Report Post »Conservative New Yorker
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:12amYeah, and don’t forget haircuts, too!
Report Post »ROBOBILLIO
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:15amand buying shoes and getting haircuts.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:19amthe medical profession focuses more on women than men. Men typically do not run to the doctor every time something happens, as such the medical field focused their advertising towards woman. Everyone thinks O-care is about choice, what is really about is being forced once again to financialy support the Insurance Companies. Health Care should be affordable , but due to the lawyers who made a huge payday over the years Insurance Companies charged more and that cost went to us the patients. Simple case of corperate greed, nothing more nothing less.
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:20amI know… Isn’t that crazy? A guy brings a shirt in and is only charged $1.50 and a woman brings a shirt in and calls it a blouse and she’s charged $3.00. Now here is the real injustice!!
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:23amMost of the time, the women are in charge of billing… Women over charging women? I think what they are talking about is that women use 50% more of the medical services. First they live longer and second men refuse to go to the doctor until stage four or just to confirm death.
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:28amTHEN OMG Obama should make it his personal goal to make sure our dry cleaning and hair cuts are paid for because this is about women’s rights dammit!!!
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:06am“As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Report Post »– H. L. Mencken (Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920)
copatriots
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:21amAwesome quote!
The problem with O is that he isn’t a moron……although many of his followers certainly are! No…..O has evil intent for this country and his community-organizing thugs are using the lemming morons to advance the cause. Our country might have been better off if O was a downright moron.
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:27amI believe the “moron” was Jimmy Carter, so that came and passed.
Report Post »daves
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:37ambeautiful!!
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:42amWhat happens when Democracy devolves into mob rule? When the search for Truth degrades into a matter discovered in a poll or ballot box, the direction of a civilization is decidedly downward. The assumption that democracy is always improving is not justified.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:05am“I’m gonna jump off this bridge…wanna come?”
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:47amOnly if its a guaranteed to go bankrupt “green” bridge that Obama wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on or if Nancy says I have to jump before I can know what happens to me when I hit whatever is under it. /sarcasm
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 4:34pmAPPLEBITE, It depends on who will pay my funeral expenses, lol.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:04amIt is truly sad that the hard sale wasn’t needed for these malingerers. They buy it all, bend, spread, and smile while cheering for a racist marxist that actually has zero concern for them. No arm twisting, they just suck it up. Sickening and infuriating all at once.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:16amThere are bags of hammers with more intelligence than this woman. You can tell she is making it up as she goes from heresay and whatever makes her feel good. This is normally the talking points of the mushbrained youth that voted in 08. Now its times for adults to manup and take this country back from them.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:00amThat woman is typical of the Obama idiots…dumber than the proverbial stump.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:06amI’ve seen stumps that are smarter than she is.
Report Post »lamarwilly
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:35amBut, the nice thing about stumps at least is that you will never get a wrong answer.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:52amand you can drill a hole in a stump and fill it with root killer
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:00amObama told me
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:10amScary, AIN’T IT
Report Post »TargetDestroyed01
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:00amInteresting: Per female protester’s comments: ‘I’ve Read It on the Obama Website. … Perhaps there is, but I think that it’s difficult for him to be publishing facts that are wrong.”
Per Ronald Reagan: “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Glad to clear that up. You are welcome. Target Destroyed 01
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:34am@ TARGET
Well said. This post made me look at your last 10. Your common sense, wit and humor are great. Thanks for clearing things up. :-)
Report Post »TargetDestroyed01
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 11:02amTo: COPATRIOTS – Thank you for your extremely kind words. I will pause for a moment to say “awwwwww shucks, wern’t nothin…” and blush a little. Please know that flattery will get you ….everywhere! ;) You are very kind and I really appreciate it.
I have read some of your posts and also greatly appreciate your comments as well. Nice to see some sanity and exceptionally well crafted thoughts in what sometimes appears to be a rather insane, or at least mindlessly foolish world.
It is extremely refreshing and gives me hope. I look forward to seeing more of your posts on this board in the future.
All the best. TD01
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:01pmAwww……your southern charm is showing.
I remember a world of common courtesy, kindness to strangers and morals & decency! Thank you for the reminder of what that was like! It is a real shame our culture, especially the youth and most especially the Occupy crowd, have no real idea what that looks like.
Blessings to you, TD01! :-)
Report Post »simplygilly
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:58amCome on now, Washington does not have to obey the laws they impose upon citizens. ie insider trading, truth in advertising (political ads), slander, libel, etc.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:58amsarcasm on
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‘o’care is good because I will get free stuff………………..
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:55amRead the study on the Obama websight; picked up the sign “from over there”.
Sounds like another Union member being bussed in for the radical protest. Another one who is among the clueless and useful idiots.
Report Post »Scarybones
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:39amExactly!
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:55amI read it in the National Enquirer therefore it must be the truth!!!
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:57amDessert!
(From movie Good Will Hunting?)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:00amI would believe the National Enquirer ove the Obama website.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:01amI heard it through the grapevine…..
Report Post »RonmeyPaulBotsrOdd
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:04amNational Enquirer??? I think there is a fella by the name of John Edwards that agrees with you, but these days you never know where real news will come from….
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:25amDidn’t Archie Bunker say it was the only magazine that told the truth? I would believe the World Weekly News with a Bat boy cover page than an Obama website.
Report Post »DBCrader
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:52amThe sad fact of the matter is that the National Enquirer is probably far more accurate in its reporting than the New York Times… after all, they found out about the John Edwards affair and reported it a year before it finally broke… oh, the NYTimes KNEW about it, but just chose to sit on the story…
Report Post »conservativejon
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:52am“but but but but obama said it. he wouldnt lie to me”
Report Post »mrqstixx
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:51amSad, sad, sad !
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:51amY r we the ppl letting this skinny punk distroy us , Y ?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:57amHaving a hard time with your big person words?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:11amthat is internet eubonics
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