Discussion: GOP Senator Is So Over Repealing Obamacare: 'We're Past That'

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as well as some that have increased the cost of health care.

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So in other words, you lost and we won.

Go on, just say it for me.

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Perhaps the Senator would care to explain how you “prevent discrimination against those with pre-existing conditions” without some kind of mandate that the healthy buy insurance? Her party still lacks any alternative and their “repeal and replace” promise is utter baloney.

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Ah, so once again some shithead is preaching that “bipartisan stuff is the best stuff”.

If you want to shoot me twice, and I don’t want me shot at all, shooting me “only” once is not, in fact, an acceptable compromise.

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Susan…please go talk to Representative Boehner and find out that, no, you’re not over ‘that’.

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Senator, there are more than 150 Republican amendments in the ACA, so, yes, it is bipartisan.

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Setting aside that the ACA was a compromise bill to satisfy the Republicans who didn’t want it, so it naturally includes things that Somebody doesn’t want, does anyone have a list of actual flaws?

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A landmark legislation coming from the Administration of a Democratic President has been passed into law, a feat never before achieved in the United States.

This legislation has been upheld by the most hostile Supreme Court in recent memory.

The legislation has withstood at least 50 attempts to repeal it.

The legislation has rolled out with success, in terms of projected enrollments.

The legislation has also resulted in positive benefits, both fiscally and with regard to access to healthcare


And, after all of this, a Republican Senator admits that “we are past repealing it”.

Two things to take from this:

(1) Only this Senator’s popularity in her home state has allowed her to even state this obvious fact.

(2) This is a portrait of what Newt Gingrich and others started, when they eventually turned Congress into what it is today.

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So, Senator Collins, why didn’t you and other Senate Republicans vote for the bill which does, in fact, prohibit insurance companys from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions?

Which provisions increase the cost of health care, Senator?

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They’ve finally made it to the summit of Bullshit Mountain. The Republican Party has milked as much donor money from this “repeal Obamacare” dummy mission as they’re every going to be able to, so there’s no need to continue the charade.

Meanwhile, Obamacare is working.

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Well for starters it’s calle Obamacare…

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If there is a possible silver lining to the Rs taking the senate, it would be they are surely to overreach and cause a dramatic recoiling of the electorate for 2016.

And I bet Collins locks in with them if they do.

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The American people won, not just partisan Democrats.

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They lost and the American people won.

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She’s desperate and after her reluctant debutante performance, i hope someone is able to prevent her from ever serving another term.

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we all know how she’ll vote if they need her vote

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Wow! Collins is smart enough to be a Democrat.

Shorter Susan: I"m not a real Republican. I just vote with them when needed.

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“You know at this point, I think we’re past that. I think it would’ve been much better if there’d been a bipartisan bill crafted in 2008…

It was a bipartisan bill you revisionist bullshit spewer.
It’s not the Dems fault the GOP’s involvement in crafting and amending the bill was being done in bad faith the whole time - with no intent on voting to pass the bill in any form. Nor does that render the GOP’s input on the ACA non-existent.

Sure, the Dems were naive fools to work with the GOP on the ACA - they should’ve done it all themselves - but both parties crafted the thing… that’s a bipartisan bill. So stop spinning you lying liar.

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