Discussion for article #221015
I wonder if the people in the audience already have health insurance. Who doesn’t want to have health insurance? I don’t get the resistance. Buy a policy already so I don’t have to pay for your ER care that won’t be enough for you.
Obviously there have always been people who basically can’t buy and then others who are just irresponsible and scofflaws of a sort. But presumably there wasn’t a big overlap between that latter group and people who are now ideologically somehow opposed to having health insurance because of Obamacare.
I think the headline on the main page concerning The Donald could have just as easily read “DUH” and said nothing else.
Trump is just playing to the tin foil hat brigade and looking to stroke his enormous ego by getting some air time.
My comment is my way of trolling the right I suppose. Presumably, Medicaid expansion and subsidies were supposed to be the solutions for folks who couldn’t afford it. I’m having trouble getting my head around the level of bubble think and resistance that persists on the right although recent polling may be a sign that the fever is starting to break with respect to the policy. The President continues to have his crazy critics though.
“ideologically somehow”
"Somehow’ is right but more inchoate bleats from another dissolute rich boy only intensifies the circular firing squad of winger noise.
What I need to know here is this What is he doing with his right hand?
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Same thing here. I’m growing tired of a certain persons topic over in The Hive and his continual posting of gibberish about the ACA. It’s becoming boring.
The ACA has it’s problems and the sooner Congress gets off it’s duff and starts fixing them the better. Meanwhile the polls will skew to reveal whatever they seek. Old Golden Decoy is doing a wonderful job of proving that.
Amazing how these rich SOBs don’t want the little people to have health insurance. Some micro-percentage of their wealth might wind up paying for some “undeserving” person’s doctor visit. I mean, from a straight capitalist point of view it just doesn’t make sense: 1. It distributes the cost of health insurance across the population; 2. a healthy workforce is a more productive workforce. I can only conclude that Trump’s response (and that of others like his) is pure bloodymindedness.
I had to go back to the article to see the picture. Yeah…what is he doing???
The insurance companies are getting new customers via the ACA are they not? If insurance companies are handed (by law) a whole bunch of new premium paying customers I would think that is a big plus for their bottom line. Now…are not republicans in favor of supporting businesses? I would think that republicans would be very supportive of a law that is very good for business. But they aren’t. It doesn’t matter even that the basic ideas incorporated into the ACA are good solid republican ideas Now our resident conservative held that republicans were supportive of small business and democrats (or at least the ones he listed) were in favor of big business. I confess to being in a quandry. I assumed republicans were business supporters even to the extent of cutting taxes for them. I guess I was wrong.
Josh, why cover his rantings at all? Or at least put them in perspective by putting the same questions to the nearest homeless person you can find in Chelsea.
I would say a mix of reader interest and thinking it’s important to keep up with what the right is saying. Some of the stuff with The Donald is just for fun of course. But it’s pretty core to my vision for TPM that we should pay attention to what these people are saying. Ignoring this stuff is why a lot of bright people get stunned when “death panels” become a big issue or other things that seem totally crazy end up driving our politics. Because we see a chunk of where the public mind is as not worth listening to or somehow if we don’t pay attention it will go away. It won’t.
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I think he has the real Donald firmly in hand!
Absolutely. You can’t defeat the opposition if you don’t know what they’re talking about, if you don’t know what “ideas” need to be challenged. As you said, ignoring them won’t make them go away.It will just allow the crazy to go unchallenged. Honestly, I’m sure there’s nothing GOP leadership would like more than for the media to completely ignore their crazies.
Plus, I like that buffoons like Trump are given such an important platform within the Republican Party. A reality show host with a hilariously bad toupee (or whatever THAT is) consistently speaking out as a leader of their party is the kind of thing that turns off sane, reasonable people. Does anyone actually believe that Mitt Romney having to go beg for Trump’s support did anything at all to help his candidacy?