Discussion: GOP Senator Reveals GOP's Biggest Fear If Obamacare Goes Down In Court

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#145

So IOW, they are not worried in the least about the real people that will be hurt and or die from their actions, only that they will get the blame for what they really do.

I have news for them, they already get the blame and millions of their constituents are benefitting from Obamacare because, even an idiot teabagger needs healthcare.

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#146

Well, it looks like the death panel all along was the Supreme Court, and we never knew that. What do ya know.

#147

Oooh, that’s cold.

#148

“Sad Sacks”. That’s what these heartless conservatives think of anyone less fortunate than they. Sad sacks just can’t pay their medical bills and will have to suffer and die! Worried more about their political image than human beings. The R’s are the true sad sacks.

#149

It would appear the the GOP has gone suicidal. If they can’t pass laws putting the Bible in every school, cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans to 0%, repealing all corporate taxes, and killing the ACA, Social Security, and Medicare – they’ll pass nothing.

I live in New York. Yes. I have criticisms of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat (at least, by party affiliation). But, having witnessed, over the last few months, the crazy stuff coming out of Indiana, Arkansas, and, now, Louisiana, on the gay-rights issues; the idiocy coming out of Arizona (among others) on the ACA issue; virtually everything coming out of the mouths of Rick Scott, Scott Walker, and on and on… I don’t see or read similar stuff coming from the blue states.

It would appear that every GOP politician in the Nation has taken leave of his/her senses and is striving to out-dumb all the others. Do they offer, anywhere, a position paper that tells us where they intend to take this Nation?

#150

That’s right Ads showing Republicans shoving old ladies in wheelchairs down the stairs
There’s an APP for that

#151

Bravo. Your retort to this nonsensical argument cannot be said often enough

#152

The Death Panels brought on by repubs who did not set up Exchanges in States and expand medicaid are already happening…Call them about it…

1.866.220.0044 or 1.866.338.1015

The World knows this is true but the repub cretins are trying to take us back to this 3rd World attitude:

#153

Have to love it when you have to decide who, the interviewer or the interviewee, has the lowest IQ.

#154

Here’s what Republicans will have to replace:

  1. Legislation designed by the Right Wing Heritage Foundation, first proposed by fourteen Republican Senators in 1993 and first signed into law by a Republican Governor.
  2. Legislation favoring pharmaceuticals over patients,
  3. Legislation favoring the insurance industry over health care providers and individuals.
  4. Legislation requiring us to pay premiums to private for-profit insurance companies or be fined,
  5. Legislation assuring private for-profits a 20% overhead rate (Medicare operates on 4%),
  6. Legislation allowing the pharmaceutical industry it can charge what it wants.
  7. Legislation that is probably the singular most perfect example of Crony Capitalism ever crafted, passed by Congress and signed by a President.
    Traditional Democrats think it stinks, because it is pure Crony Capitalism.
    ACA Obamacare makes real reform more difficult:
    A. By funding private for-profits with billions of tax-payer and premium-payer money mandated by the law (private for-profits can use this money to advertise against real reform, to hire lobbyists, to give campaign contributions to ‘sympathetic candidates’),
    B. By guaranteeing a bloated overhead - funny money - for the private for profits (Medicare operates on 4%, the private for-profits get 20%), and
    C. By pretending ‘real reform’ has happened, when in fact real reform has been made more difficult by the federal government requiring its citizens to pay into the most costly health care system and the federal government subsidizing private for-profit insurers with tax payers’ money.
    Obamacare does all these things - all things Republican contributors want.
    So, I can tell you this: One of the biggest wishes of actual Democrats (not Obama/Hillary Democrats, Im talking about Democratic voters) is that Obamacare hits the ash can and real reform begins, i.e.universal single payer health care, lowering the age of eligibility for Medicare so that everyone is eligible.
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#155

Obamacare is perhaps the most perfect piece of crony capitalist legislation ever passed and signed.
How could the Republicans outdo that!?
Especially, when most Americans want to simply lower the age of eligibility for Medicare, so that all citizens can become eligible.

#156

It’s baffled me for a long time, though I take it one step further. Why isn’t corporate america screaming for a single payer system so they can get out of the insurance provider business entirely and receive a healthier work force in the process? Its a win-win for the vast majority of corporations, with the admittedly large exception of insurance companies, yet they fight tooth and nail against such a notion.

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#157

Unlike the Republicans’ fabricated predictions about what would happen if the ACA was passed, but didn’t happen, Democrats would be able to point to example after example of real people who suffered real harm when the ACA was gutted because of the Republican lawsuit. This will motivate not only the people who lost benefits to go out and vote in 2016, but people who are close to them. It doesn’t take a political genius to figure this out, but many Republican politicians are just now starting to realize how this will play out.

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#158

Remind me-- how many times did they vote against Obamacare?

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#159

Yeah, Republican politicians killing voters likely to be Democrats.

How will they spin this?

#160

Will somebody explain to me the purpose of a law that says you won’t pass a law? I mean if Arizona legislature does not want to create a state exchange, then they won’t create a state exchange simply by not passing a law that creates one. It’s the default. If, however, they do want to create a state exchange, they’ll create a law that creates one. And if there happens to be a previously-enacted law that says they won’t, they’ll just repeal that one first.

So, really, what am I missing here?

#162

Oh, the inhumanity!!!

It really WOULD be good if the Democrats could, more accurately would, pin the tale on the elephant once in a while. I’ll be SO glad when Harry “Weak” Reid retires, long overdue.

#163

…and Pontius Pilate washed his hands.

#164

Yes, because a large enough segment of the population shares their contempt for human life. It saddens me to no end.

#165

Sen. Johnson & neighboring Illinois Sen., Mark Kirk®, have until the 2016 election to continue to screw over the poor & middle class. Then, it’s out the door to K-Street lobbyist time. Good riddance!

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