I love these endless promises of a great replacement for the ACA. We’ve been hearing them for years now. Odd that none of the promises comes with even a one-page outline of what this magic pony will look like.
Keep talking, guys. The more you promise, the harder it is to repeal and run.
If they could actually do what they are all now promising they will do, they would have offered details sometime in the last six years. Now they are just vamping, hoping a solution – or a major wag-the-dog distraction – will drop out of the sky and save them.
It’s fairly obvious that they will never be able to repeal the ACA because they will never have a replacement. Their idea of “replacement” is to revert to the status quo ante, a system that made healthcare in the US the laughingstock of the industrialized world. Sure, you can get great medical attention in the US – if you can afford it. Pre-ACA, Americans paid more for healthcare (by about 50%) than the rest of the world and got less for it. Life expectancy in the US lags behind the rest of the industrialized world (to be fair, the rest of the world doesn’t have a Second Amendment that tends to hold life expectancy down in America).
“I think they’re going to have it, and I think it’s probably going to be better care than what they have now,” Frelinghuysen said.
“I think”…? Doesn’t he know? They’ve been working on this the past 6 years, right…?
RIGHT…???
They seem to think they can pull this off. People with health insurance for their kids are going to know if they are being ripped off By a new plan.
Edit: Not just 50% more - it’s typically 100% more than other industrialized countries (i.e., double).
It’s pretty stark:
That is no longer a headline… you just keep switching the subject of your headline sentence from Paul Ryan to House Appropriations Chair to PeePee to Paul Ryan to… on and on and on.
And this one below is kinda sorta no longer a headline either, and OT, but anyway.
I think that the “replacement” they’re referring to will be:
creation of high risk pools and junk insurance for the remainder
Neither of which will actually cover patients withn their health needs. By the time people figure that out, it’ll be a done deal and the Rethugs will just put the blame on those people who can’t afford better, actual health insurance.
…and I think it’s probably going to be better care than what they have now,
Probably? It has to be.
I’m moving to Chile.
Actually I have heard great things about living in Chile for a long time.
That one surprised me - it really jumps out at you!
In a sane, non-Rethug world, yes it would HAVE to be better.
But, in the end, I think they’ll just settle for anything whether it provides care or not. When the health insurance industry begins to tank because even employer provided plans get cancelled, the GOP will blame someone else.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! And I got a ticket to the inaugural to sell you.
I promise!!!
Oh, and about those WMD’s…
“I think they’re going to have it, and I think it’s probably going to be better care than what they have now,”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
When I was growing up, his promises would have been called “bonehead promises.”
I hear they’re being scalped for as much as $1.98.
I have seen little or no evidence that this man “thinks” at all, so don’t hold your breath waiting for him to follow through on this promise. Just more lies…
The GOP 3-Step Plan for Sick Americans:
- Bankruptcy and poverty.
- Needless pain and suffering.
- Death.
The GOP 3-Step Plan for Healthy Americans:
- Constant anxiety over eventual illness.
- Eventual illness.
- See Steps 1 through 3, above.
Simple, cheap, and quick to implement.