It’s a pretty good bet at this point that the ACA is here to stay and that the Republican party is unlikely to even touch it in the foreseeable future. They’re starting to realize that they don’t understand either our healthcare system or the ACA and they don’t really want to mess with something that confuses them this much. They’ll pretend to be trying for, at most, a few more weeks before avoiding the subject completely in all future conversations.
I hear you, but I am not so trusting. Trump is trying to get some real benefit here for his fellow zillionaires while he is claiming to be a voice of responsibility. I don’t see him being ready to give up anytime soon! He is dying to stick us with a shit sandwich and he will press ahead a couple of more rounds at least with his malevolent plans for us!
I wish my cancer surgery scar was in a more private area so it was a more obvious insult when I flashed it at GOPers.
Then wouldn’t take it as an insult. They’d think you found them attractive.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Revealed once and for all that Ryan et al. couldn’t care less about whether health care is actually available to sick people and affordable to poor people. They just wanted to grab the $900M of rich peoples’ taxes used to finance Obamacare in the first place and put it back in the pockets of their rich contributors.
I imagine political parties engaging AIs to track sentiment and then report to their constituents whatever they expect to hear. This mirroring of voter and non-voter minds removes the basic premise of public service of fiduciary duties. A perfect vacuum of ideas. Indeed, big issues have no room for discussion but wall-to-wall easter egg roll coverage.
Supporters of the bill, including Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), have argued unsuccessfully with their more skeptical colleagues that this wouldn’t affect the populations of more progressive states, which will not attempt to get such a waiver.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a limper argument in my life. Is he suggesting that those living in more regressive states move to more progressive states to keep from being screwed on their health insurance? This comes closest to the argument that there is no need to regulate banks because the banks will regulate themselves. We’ve been there and done that.
Exactly. I think it’s funny that this GOP rep actually thinks this bill is about healthcare. It would do exactly what it is designed to do – de-fund the ACA and Medicaid to pay for massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans. It’s just the typical GOP shell-game con, and has nothing to do with healthcare.
The only solution is single payer healthcare for all Americans. I think that’s what some people mean when they say, “Medicare for all.” Yes, that will mean raising taxes. And perhaps it will mean eliminating insurance companies in the formula.
No matter how the President and conservative Republicans coat things, it follows this script:
IT’S ALL ABOUT ME
You have your needs. I have mine.
You need to eat. I wish to dine.
Your education, health care, time off fine?
Yours no longer, all is mine.
You sit in darkness all alone?
You work your fingers to the bone?
Watch me play another nine!
I choose to live where the sun do shine
on me.
My looming face is clearly sign
that every doubter must align.
While you struggle, I’ll do fine.
It’s all about me.
Donald J TrumpAsking the GOP to make policy on any collective, redistributive system like insurance is like hiring a dog allergic person as your dog’s groomer. They’ll just sneeze and break out in hives and leave your dog looking like a mess.
Now Democrats need to propose improvements to the ACA. They might even propose some form of single payer plan.
This isn’t about policy, it’s about chalking up a “win” at any cost. It doesn’t matter that this will be a huge loss for their constituents, as long as they can go on the talk shows and claim victory. If this were real policy making there would be hearings and expert reports and studies and there are none. Not a single health policy expert that I am aware of has anything but contempt for this joke of a bill.
As for Chris Collins, yes New York had community rating before Obamacare. But, without the mandates and subsidies in the ACA, policies were unaffordable to the sick and healthy alike. He knows that, the lyin g scumbag.
Collins thinks WE think it’s about health care. He knows better. Wonder if he’d be so solicitous of blue states, including his own, if the blue-state-shafting elimination of state tax deductions was the topic. Answer is , he wouldn’t; he’s a weasel.
These phony moderates have rubber stamped most of Trump’s ideas, like Lance in NJ.
I wish you were more mature.
The repeal bill doesn’t terrify GOP moderates because it outright takes health care away from millions, makes it unaffordably expensive and out of reach for millions more, and rips away coverage requirements for everybody. It terrifies them because people might realize that the Republicans are the ones taking away their healthcare and therefore cost them votes. They really just want to find a way to better disguise their tax cuts for the rich.
I disagree. I don’t think he has a plan that extends beyond himself and his brand.
Yes, that’s true, but the foundation of representative government is exactly that-that representatives are accountable to their constituents and must take their wishes into account or be voted out,. I only care that Dent votes against this POS, not why he does so.