Repeal Obamacare immediately, experts warn, and millions of people will be loose insurance.
It’s the word no one on the Internet knows how to spell - “lose.” Lose. Lose. L.O.S.E.
“Lose.”
I’m not even sure what it means to “be loose insurance.”
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Counting votes is the least of the GOP’s worries. Their policy of obstruction has led them to forget that the ACA is philosophically a conservative approach to healthcare i.e. premium supports, individual mandates, no mechanism to control costs.
It is hard to see what a more conservative approach could be.
But the Democrats have no such philosophical restrictions they should propose a single payer option with significant price controls particularly for pharmaceuticals.emphasized text
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Dozen the soft wear TPm reporter’s use had Grammer Czech?
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Shorter version: Arsonists seek to blame firefighters for not showing up fast enough.
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Not going to happen with these stenographers who endlessly repeat GOP talking points…
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In both the House and Senate votes for the Affordable Care Act in 2009, no Republicans voted in support of the act. Why would ANY Democrats vote to help repeal the Act?
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This whole idea – smash the ACA, sow chaos in the insurance markets, and then try to coerce Dems (who will be in control of zero branches of govt, and thus not responsible for any of this) to sign on to your half-assed “replacement” – is so idiotic, so knuckle-headed, so oblivious to reality, that when i read this i think “No way, they couldn’t possibly be that stupid”.
And then i remember … this is the party that just elected Trump. They most definitely can be that stupid.
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Repubs will vote to repeal Obamacare because the name is poison to their base. They’ll give themselves an extended period of time to avoid the negative consequences of actual repeal. After that it’s an open question whether they tweak and rename it, but at that point I fear they will be able to tag Dems with partial responsibility for the result since they’ll be able to position bills to do just that.
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All I know is if one single Democrat works with the Republicans on repealing OR replacing then that Democrat is the enemy and should be primaried.
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“Competently” is the operative word. First they have to elect people who are interested in governing and competent to do so.
Given the dominance of the crazed teabaggers in Congress, that’s not going to happen any time soon.
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Never mind bait and switch. Ryan and McConnell are working on Steal and Stall. Good luck to us all.
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Trump, Ryan, Turtle in a photo with the caption: Death Panel. That’s my slogan. Cheers!
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Yep. I bet that’s part of the plan. “Hey, let’s strip away Obama’s signature legacy. Ha ha ha. When people complain, we’ll blame the Democrats. That always works!”
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Therein lies the problem.
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Yep. Democrats suck at messaging. It gives me no joy to predict that they will fail at this one too, letting crazed Republicans blame Obamacare for all their woes and blame Democrats when it’s repealed. And the Democrats will be left sputtering 'B-b-but, but, but …"
The more conservative approach was outlined years ago (sarcastically) by Alan Grayson on the House floor:
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Don’t get sick.
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If you get sick, die quickly.
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The unspoken assumption in all of these hostage taking strategies of legislating is that only one party cares about actual people being harmed. Republicans can throw people off the health insurance rolls without a thought of the harm that is being done because Democrats care too much about people being hurt to not do something to solve the problem.
I agree, with one semantic difference - the Democrats should offer an enhancement plan, not a replacement plan. Now, before the GOP even gets to repeal. Surely they’ve been working on some of these ideas - like raising subsidy levels and also taking a harder look at deductibles, plus a public option. I actually wouldn’t make a big thing about this, but let it be known that there is a plan to address the issues surfaced through ACA adoption.
But if the GOP does go through with repeal w/o a replacement in hand, I totally agree with you. And Pelosi and Schumer need to make it crystal clear to their caucuses that cooperation on any GOP plan is a career-ender. They broke it, they own it.
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It was Blue Dog Democrats beholden to Big Pharma and Big Insurance who crippled it in the first place and eviscerated the public option.
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Except there’s a good part of their crazy caucus that doesn’t believe the government has any business in health or social insurance - not only the ACA, but also Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.
Here’s what I suspect. Ryan and his yahoo House caucus will pass repeal. The healthcare industry will freak out and respond with a flurry of lobbying and public advocacy - the ads with people who will lose insurance coverage write themselves - while the whole thing slowly dies in the Senate.