Perhaps we underestimated Michael Bloomberg!

Mike Bloomberg in 2010 called Obamacare legislation 'a disgrace' and 'another program that's going to cost a lot of money'

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said the final Obamacare bill would do "absolutely nothing to fix the big health care problems" and also called the program "a disgrace" in comments made in 2010, just months after the law's passage.

 

Speaking at Dartmouth College in July of that year, Bloomberg added that law was just "another program that's going to cost a lot more money." It is just one of several comments from Bloomberg identified by CNN's KFile criticizing the landmark Affordable Care Act in the years following its passage, including saying the bill was "really dysfunctional" and did nothing to solve rising health care costs.

Well most certainly, Michael Bloomberg hit that nail on the head. Oh, and it's no wonder that the former President is supposedly not all that happy with Bloomberg using him and his statements in Bloomberg's most recent television ad.

"We passed a health care bill that does absolutely nothing to fix the big health care problems in this country. It is just a disgrace," said Bloomberg at the Dartmouth Presidential Lecture in 2010. "The President, in all fairness, started out by pointing out what the big problems were, but then turned it over to Congress, which didn't pay any attention to any of those big problems and just created another program that's going to cost a lot of money."

"It's really sad because they say they've insured or provided coverage for another 45 million people," Bloomberg added in the speech. "Except there's no doctors for 45 million more people and unless they fix immigration and let people who come here for medical education stay here, those people are just going to do the same thing. They're going to have to go to the emergency rooms where they've been except that now it's going to cost a lot more money."

Oh and Bloomberg argues that part of the problem is immigrants who come here for the free healthcare, and how we will not have doctors for everyone unless that issue is fixed! Now that actually makes sense! But it also sounds an awful lot like a Republican, now  doesn't it?

Julie Wood, a Bloomberg campaign spokeswoman, told CNN in a statement this week that Bloomberg had supported the bill, but was critical of the approach to pass it.

Certainly doesn't sound that way to me! Flip flop, flip flop, flip flop!