The entire party is a pathetic sham on every single issue. Why would healthcare be any different?
I can’t imagine what these so-called “policy” conversations sound like.
“Obamacare is Hitler.”
“No, it’s Satan!”
“No it’s both of them, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!”
“Alright, good policy talk. Now let’s get drunk.”
And with that they blissfully headed off to Chez Boehner for cigars and a nice merlot.
Obamacare is a joke…especially for the middle class. It’s expensive catastrophic health care insurance. It’s fine for low income users, but expanded Medicare would have been the way to go. It’s already in place and people could have gradually been added in.
No, the “repeal Obamacare” mantra isn’t going to go away anytime soon. Why? Because it’s a great opportunity to hurt people, and Republican politicians thrive on such opportunities.
Please… the GOP are still about repealing the New Deal and the Great Society.
And we can still expand Medicare. That option is not gone. If we elect a Democratic Congress.
It’s only a joke to people who don’t have pre-existing conditions; who don’t have chronic diseases; who didn’t get dropped from their insurance once they got sick; who never had to negotiate non-employee insurance coverage.
I guess you have a pretty sick sense of humor.
Edit to add: Have you noticed that the Republicans are trying to raise the age of eligibility for Medicare? And you are seriously blaming Obama for not getting Medicaare For All? Grow up!
Another edit: The difference between a middle class person and a homeless person pre-ACA was one serious diagnosis.
No it isn’t. Try having a pre-existing condition pre-ACA.
And “expanded” Medicare as a public option is the next big step which Clinton is advocating.
He said he could see a President Trump, with sizable Republican majorities in the House and Senate, in fact repealing a lot of Obamacare.
Some people think there is no reality…that what we think is reality is actually a computer simulation.
And yet, not a single simulation has ever come up with that scenario.
A better question is “Is this the last GOP convention?”
Is This The Last Convention Where The GOP Promises Obamacare Repeal?
Are you kidding? They’re still bitching about FDR.
Believe me, I have pre-existing conditions, but I took charge of my life early on and made a lot of different option available for me and my family. For those of you who think a Democratic Congress is going to make a difference…baloney! We had a Democratic Congress and they sold us out and gave the country this substandard plan. It’s disgrace compared to a lot of other countries.
Then you wouldn’t have said something as stupid as this.
Well aren’t you special.
Stow your shit. We aren’t buying it.
You are right! Medicare for everybody would have been much much preferable. But, if you remember, Obama made a deal with the very powerful medical insurance crowd that they would not oppose Obama if he dropped single-payer( Medicare for all) in favor of what we now call Obamacare. And part of Obamacare was a small increase in Medicare ( for students I believe) The way to go for Democrats is small, drip,drip, drip incremental increases in Medicare coverage untill we all get it.
You only buy what you and your insulated clique wanna buy, snowflake.
More fiction. Senators like Lieberman and others made clear that the public option was too far for them and that single-payer was a non-starter and the bill would have never gotten off the ground at all if single-payer was the plan. But nice try at rewiring history.
Oh dearz, someone is having a sad.
And how many votes were there for your preferred solution? Bernie Sanders himself, probably the most liberal member of Congress, said there were only eight, maybe nine votes there in the Senate for what you propose. It was not enough.
And rather than get nothing, we instead got a program that provides immediate help for those who needed it most, expands coverage, caps profits of the insurance companies, and establishes a framework to build upon.
So, how did you take charge of your life in a way that helps you address your conditions, and is it something applicable to the millions of people who were shut out of the insurance market because of pre-existing conditions? Is your solution scalable to the nation at large?