lizzymom Prime Member

The Goopers are learning that talk is cheap – actually having to take responsibility is a completely different animal.

One that can bite you in the ass.

radicalcentrist

“It’s money that matters”. Always was and always will be

https://www.youtube.com/embed/cS06eprlj2I

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austin_dave Regular

This is a video of a discussion of the future of the ACA at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (David Axelrod’s outfit). It’s longish but very rational and civilized. Highly recommended.
http://politics.uchicago.edu/news/entry/the-future-of-healthcare

dcobranchi

What is the upside for The Moron and his Minions to act before Congress does? His approval rating is already in the toilet. Blow up the insurance market and he could blow right by W’s 25% nadir. And we all know that the only thing The Moron truly cares about is his popularity.

hquain

Let’s think thermodynamically. There are many, many ways that Price et al can blow up the market, deliberately or accidentally. There are very few ways that stability can be maintained. The pencil is balanced on its tip. What do you think is going to happen next?

lastroth Prime Member

My take away is that Everybody Hates the ACA, but nobody wants to be the first to put a bullet through it.

Does anyone think that Pres. 45 has an advisor at the WH advising him on how and when to put a bullet in the ACA?

The Congressional Republicans are waiting for “Daddy” to handle the mess, while the “Daddy” is waiting for Congress to handle the mess.

To Trump supporters this is what you wanted, can you handle the excitement and suspense?

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drwho

Please change the headline: “Kill Obamacare or put it in a coma”. ACA is healthy but handicapped, not a vegetable yet.

brooklyndweller

But Obamacare critics are already warning that, if Price is not careful, the measures he takes to prop up the Affordable Care Act might make it harder to repeal down the road.

If there hasn’t been a discussion about what a replacement would be for the ACA, then discussing a repeal is just pie in the sky. But, then, I wouldn’t really expect “an associate professor of law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston” to understand that.

@hquain I think nothing will happen.

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stradivarius50t3 Prime Member

My barber Al put it a little more pithily: “Money talks, and bullshit walks.”

I’ve found an event where all my local GOOP (Grand Old Opposition Party) Congressweasels (including the GOOP Senator) are going to be. If questions are going to be taken from the assembled throng, I’ll pay for my admission so I can ask those worthless f***s the following:

1. Excuse me, Congressweasel C, but were you a Member in 2009 and 2010? (Yes).
2. How did you vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? (No).
3. Did you work in Committee to improve the PPACA in any way? (No).
4. Are you aware that XXXXXX of the citizens in Our Fair State purchase their health insurance on the exchange? Are you aware that YYYYYYY of the citizens of Our Fair State get their health insurance via the Medicaid expansion? Are you aware that ZZZZZZ of our citizens are caught in the affordable coverage hole between Medicaid availability and Exchange affordability? (No to all, I expect.)
5. How do you plan to address these serious problems without crashing our jury-rigged health care finance system? You do understand that what we are talking about is not health care – it is health care finance, don’t you???
6. And finally, given that the problem is health care finance, why the fuck did you let Mr Trump install an orthopedic surgeon to oversee this? Was he a secret economics major or something?

Have I mentioned today how much I hate these people?

zrx1100

“Chaos? Who gives a shit about chaos?” Standard GOP reply. Copy and repeat.