In trying to defend his stillborn brainchild, Emanuel constantly interrupts the other panelist and host Chris Wallace, haranguing them for misunderstanding his genius.
Hell, instead of having to listen to him, just take a look at his facial expressions.
If you interpret these looks as condescension, haughtiness and delusions of grandeur, well, that was the interview.
That said, there were some interesting nuggets uncovered.
First, Emanuel admits that Obamacare will destroy the individual insurance market.
CAPRETTA: People who knew the law as it was being written knew the president wasn't telling the truth. The grandfather provision written in the law itself was too narrow and frankly they wrote a regulation intentionally trying to get people out of the individual market.
EMANUEL: Look --
CAPRETTA: They want the people to go into the exchanges because there's a lot of people in the individual market. The whole point of the exchanges is to close down the individual insurance market overtime.
EMANUEL: The insurance company, wait a second --
CAPRETTA: They wanted to move millions of people into the exchanges --
EMANUEL: The insurance companies don't like -- the insurance companies don't like the individual market as it's constructed. They see the future. That individual market is going away. They don't want to invest in it.
Second, Emanuel blames insurance companies for Obamacare's failures.
WALLACE: I have to ask you, does ObamaCare mandate that insurance companies change their plans to meet certain standards?
EMANUEL: Yes, it brings it up. But those -- look, we grandfathered in all of the pre-existing plans. If you want to change plans or you want to buy a new car, you have to meet safety standards. That was the rule and --
WALLACE: But wait, wait. Wait a minute. Your grandfathering is so narrow. For instance --
EMANUEL: It's not so narrow.
WALLACE: Let me give you an example. For instance, if an insurance company changes the co-pay by more than $5, over the course of three years since 2010, it's no longer grandfathered in.
EMANUEL: That's a 25 -- usually, a 25 percent change. That's a big change. You have to --
WALLACE: A $5 change in the co-pay, now, it's not grandfathered.
Third, Emanuel also blames private companies for the failures of his grand designs, the genius of which is simply misunderstood by we simple mortals.
WALLACE: Dr. Emanuel, it isn't just small business or the individuals -- forgive me, sir -- there are big companies, Time Warner, IBM, Sears, Wal-Mart -- or K-Mart, Walgreens, they're all saying they're going to take people off their coverage and put them into exchanges. None of them are going to be able -- of those people are going to be able to keep their current policies.
EMANUEL: Those are companies making decisions of how they want to insure people. Remember --
WALLACE: Because of the way ObamaCare works.
EMANUEL: Before ObamaCare, those companies could drop coverage at any time. Before ObamaCare, companies didn't have to offer insurance to their people and many didn't. As we know, we have 50 million uninsured people -- so, plenty of people -- and most of those are workers who didn't have coverage. Before Obama --
WALLACE: Simple question --
EMANUEL: Wait a second. Before ObamaCare, we were having lots of those people --
WALLACE: Simple question, are those going to be able to keep their coverage as the president?
EMANUEL: The president -- look, the law does not say Sears dropped coverage. Sears decides what's good for Sears. The law doesn't say to the insurance industry, you drop coverage. The insurance industry decides how it's going to make money.
When the private companies decide that they're going to drop people or put them in the exchange, you blame President Obama. He is not responsible for that.
In short, everyone else is to blame for the failures of Obamacare. The insurance companies aren't cooperating, the private sector is too greedy, the customers don't know what's best for them.
But it's not the mastermind's fault.
It never is.
The delusions of Emanuel are pretty much described in The 10 Commandments of Government as well as by every rational thinker since The Enlightenment.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
6 comments:
I happened to see that interview on TV, and it was painful to watch: It reminded me of a person I used to work with who believed their side of an issue was *obviously* correct despite their dearth of supporting facts or logic - they simply had to repeat it loud enough and often enough until others were "convinced" or gave in. The fact that they ki$$3d the boss' @$$ only helped.
Bottom line? They got rewarded with a promotion.
Same thing's going to happen with ObamaCare - the butt ki$$3r$ get rewarded, their faulty logic becomes required practice, and the rest of us have to suffer with it.
Thanks for reading!
what a jerk, just like his siblings
Saw this dolt on Megyn Kelly the other night. People like him scare me to death, thinking they are responsible for ANYthing doing with ANYone.
If things go off the rail, this guy better move to another country.
I also saw this know it all, condescending, elitist asshat on Megyn Kelly the other night. And that's all the good things I have to say about him.
This guy is an utter, sinister freak.
Worse, he is Barack Obama, personified.
Good thing we have John Boehner and the boys running the GOP pitching for us, guarding our freedom. Or not.
The Tea Party is our only hope. Supporting the GOP only promises more of the same: cowardice, corruption, failure and capitulation.
The brother of Rahm Emanuel. What were you guys expecting. Just another blood sucking Marxist.
Emanuel is the son of Benjamin M. Emanuel and Marsha (Smulevitz) Emanuel, and is a divorced father of three daughters. His two younger brothers are Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Hollywood-based talent agent Ari Emanuel. He has an adopted sister, Shoshana Emanuel. [7] His father’s brother, Emanuel, was killed in the 1936 Arab Riots in the British Mandate of Palestine, after which the family changed its name from Auerbach to Emanuel in his honor.[8]
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