Does anyone remember all the editorials, local and
national, that mocked and impugned North Carolina’s General Assembly this past year? All the Observers that infest this state
gleefully called our governor and republican legislators “a national
embarrassment.” Well, Obamacare is a
real national embarrassment, along with an NC senator who blindly voted for
this monstrosity. Senator Kay Hagan
probably wished she had stayed home instead of holding a press conference. Here is an excerpt from a Dana Milbank
article:
Hagan hosted
a conference call for reporters Tuesday morning to discuss the problems with
the health-care law’s rollout, and the Q&A session was so painful that the
senator should qualify for trauma coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Fox News’s Jim Angle asked what she
thought about the reports showing that only 50,000 Americans had
enrolled in the health-care exchanges on HealthCare.gov.
“You know,” she replied. “I know
the — I believe this coming Friday, those numbers are going to be published and
uh, you know, as soon as I see them, you know, obviously it’s, it’s m-much
fewer than the administration expected.”
A reporter from the Greensboro
(N.C.) News & Record asked why Hagan, like President Obama, had told people
that if they liked their health plans they’d be able to keep their health
plans.
There was a long pause before Hagan
responded, then a deep intake of breath. “You know, Doug,” she responded, “the,
um” — here she exhaled and paused again — “the way these, the — the regulations
and the law, uh” — pause — “came forward recently, I think people were
surprised that the, uh, the — the actual original plans would be, um, would be
canceled.”
Another North Carolina reporter
asked Hagan what she is telling constituents whose premiums have doubled or
whose plans have been canceled.
Deep inhalation. “Well, a lot of
people, I, I am encouraging everybody to go on the site, uh, uh, I — look through
it, find out what the benefits are,” she began. She also said constituents
could call her office, “and we will certainly, uh, do what we can to help those
individuals and put them in contact, uh, with the right — with the right
person, and, and, and help them.”
And North
Carolina’s General Assembly and governor is an embarrassment? Think again.
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