Republicans aren’t “working” on anything except their campaigns. All this posturing is for the benefit of billionaire donors, and to a lesser degree, their most extremist constituents.
Their entire strategy appears to be obfuscate, lie, procrastinate, bloviate, repeat. They have no plan and never will.
Can we stop the BS now? The Rethugs have absolutely NO alternative to the ACA, they just hate it and want to repeal it. I’m sure many voters will want to thank them for taking away their health insurance and insurance for their children. It’s the “Right” (Wing Nut Job) thing to do. An absolutely disgusting display, but then what’s new? Typical GOP thuggery.
To your point, when Americans are polled on whether they like Obamacare, the responses are majority negative. When the wording of the poll asks whether they like the ACA, the responses are majority positive.
Luntz wordsmithing at work.
Yes, then wait a beat and blame the Democrats for driving the car into the ditch. Works every time.
The Republican fix is “let the free market handle it” and “If you can’t afford insurance, get sick and die, that’s your fault”.
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“The idea is to show what our alternative to Obamacare would look like.”[/quote]
crickets
Which is why they’ll introduce JoniErnstCare!
Folks, are you unable to pay for a doctor when you’re sick? Well, under JoniErnstCare all you have to do is bang on the door of the church of your choice and beg for help–after you’ve prayed for divine intervention.
Yes it’s JoniErnstCare, the Christ-Centered Care you need.And If JC and his Sonshine Band respond to your prayers, you might even be able to pay off the doctor by giving him a pig!
Prai$e Je$u$!
Depending on the justice they might not even care if they had anything ready. They would probably just punt and say “This is not ok, but it is Congress’s job to fix it”. Meaning that they rule against it but leave it open to a fix and the consequences that follow.
Conversely, they could also say it is not worded right but let it stand for a number of reasons saying that Congress has the power to change the law as they want.
If, no when, Obama vetoes their attempt to remove Obama’s name, there will still be Obamacare, how would Americans lose coverage?
If, by some wild chance, the Repubs actually came up with some form of intelligent plan, President Obama could just work it into Obamacare and say thank you very much. The whole basis of Obamacare is an older conservative idea anyways.
The deal is, Republicans may have some good ideas but they will never implement anything that benefits the people and reduces corporate profits The Democrats OTOH, are open to all input and are more than willing to take the Repubs ideas and meld them with our own and create great legislation that helps America(ns).
Obamacare is the healthcare of the land and there is no changing that. The fixes or the attempts at destroying it will only leave a different version of Obamacare.
If John Roberts wants to take a crack at disabling the law, let him, the recourse will only be an improvement and he will look like an even bigger stooge than he already does. Nemesis is a word that all Republicans need to get comfortable with.
Obama wins again!!!
It would be ironic that if the court finds for King that republicans will kill more Americans than ISIS fighters…something really wrong with that
If the Republican partisans on the Supreme Court cancel subsidies in red states without their own exchanges, Democrats are not obliged to do anything. The ruling would only hurt residents of states who refuse to accept federal money by building their own exchanges. These state governments would be spiting their own people. Obama can stand firm. His message to the American people can be as simple one: Your republican representatives in congress are spiting red states by refusing to pass a 3 sentence bill clarifying that subsidies apply to the Federal exchange. State republican legislatures spite their people by refusing to create exchanges.
Not one citizen of a state with a government responsible enough to create it’s own exchange should lose coverage in a compromise meant to give coverage to people who voted in state governments that refused to create an exchange.
Obama can give John Roberts a call and privately inform him that is how this is going to play out. Let Roberts consider if he can stomach millions losing insurance and enacting a de facto subsidy of blue states by red states just so he can help his friends out with an extralegal opinion that weakens their political opponents’ favorite law.
Since Nixon won in 1968 GOPers have had the opportunity to ACT, but choose racial polarization of the “southern strategy” instead.
No, he does NOT ‘write the same article every day’. He certainly writes every day, sometimes less often sometimes more, on the subject of the ACA, but that’s one of THE most important things going on in American government and society today or at any time since the 1960s, and unlike some other things in that category is something we can do something about.
Keep writing on this, Sahil - every day, at least, and on every conceivable basis or excuse.
Sometimes I think Ryan’s actually as stupid as he sounds. Lamar Alexander understands, apparently even Beauregard Sessions understands, that commanding and forming Congress committees to ‘report up’ a fix is plain and stupid impossible, given the ACA itself IS a mostly Congressional GOP-modified version of the one and only Heritage Institute ‘fix’, the one and only health care costs insurance coverage fix that any right wing wank tank has ever come up with. But apparently Ryan actually BELIEVES the GOP can ‘do better’. It’s unpossible, by definition - not possible, impossible and inconceivable, therefore unpossible.
The idea that it’s up to Congress DEMOCRATS to come up with some ‘alternative’ that’s not the ACA and not the pre-ACA regime of nothing therefore not nothing AND is broadly acceptable to “the American public” to wit the GOP Base is absurd from the outset. If it were not for the last bit, the obvious alternatives would the so-called Public Option or universal coverage as a matter of citizenship entitlement. But that last condition not only kills off those two alternatives, it kills off the very idea of ANY broadly applicable federal program. IOW, this too is not possible, impossible, and inconceivable, therefore unpossible.
The great shame of this is how gleefully wealthy men with full benefits when it comes to health care can so callously want to strip struggling Americans from basic coverage. The GOP cruelty can never outdo itself. To them, it’s all about a political win. To Americans, it can mean medical bankruptcy, permanent disability, or death. Kudos to the Party of family values and faith in God.
Another Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), said the GOP should challenge Democrats to come up with a different health care plan that isn’t Obamacare and is supported by the American public.
So, point to the minority party that doesn’t have control to come up with a plan that they cannot themselves vote into law? Makes sense.
Oh, and as far as coming up with a different health care plan that “isn’t Obamacare and is supported by the American public,” all you need to do is change the name and market it under a different administration. It’s already supported by the American public at large, when they don’t know what it’s called. More would probably be on-board with single-payer, if they called it “capitalist health care” instead.
Of course they do not have a replacement. They pushed this plan for over 40 years, and it took the Democrats to give them not only their own plan, but the added bonus of the Gingrich mandate. After 40 years of pushing the same thing, they have neither the intelligence or the ability to come up with something better. If SCOTUS guts ACA, Americans who have now had a chance to get coverage lose it, they will not forget who cost them so dearly when a loved one is ill. All I can say is that I hope those who bad mouthed this bill so much in our nation, took advantage of it, and will now lose it, choke on their own bile when they get their next doctor’s or hospital bill. I did not like the bill because of the mandate, and I will not like it until the mandate is removed, but the coverage it provides for millions is a worthy first step. Ironically, the only way to replace this bill, since going backwards is not going to work, is to put through universal healthcare, managed not by Medicare, but by the insurance company non-profits that once managed Medicare so badly. It is the only win possible for the GOP if they want to make millions of Americans happy little voters.
The GOP has railed against every policy that they ever embraced, so their only hope now is to embrace the ones they once hated through PR repackaging and FOX News indoctrination. They have been so successful in convincing Americans that black is white and white is black for the last 6 years, that this should be a piece of cake. Americans will vote against themselves again, the GOP will continue its tyranny, and the world will wonder if mass insanity has taken over our nation. Only time will tell, but sadly I see pandemics and wars in our future, just like the Apocalyptic Christians have pushed for in their control of factions of the GOP.
I don’t think the Kochs own him. They can only own what they can buy. I think he’s a sincerely dedicated right wing ideologue who’s determined to take us back to the 1920s, but in a way that looks like he’s not actually reversing precedent.
“To get care, all you have to do is drive to your local country club and show your membership…”
John Alder is delusional…
“For Chief Justice Roberts I think it’s enough to show that the political process is capable of solving whatever the political branches need to be solved.”
But that isn’t how it works. Unless Obama decided to ignore the Court or issue an E.O. to get around it, then the subsidies would stop in 34 states on July 1. Premiums are paid monthly, and the vast majority of people who get subsidies would have to drop their coverage immediately. So by August 1 there would be the loss of premiums from several million people with NOTHING TO REPLACE THAT, at least not immediately. There is no way such a scenario is good for the insurers. Certainly Q3 and Q4 and 2015 would be disasters, whatever the long-term might hold. If investors thought that was likely to occur they would be bailing out of these stocks now. And they aren’t.