So the hand grenades tossed into health care by Republicans appear to be having their intended effect.
From the party that has said “Government is the problem” doing their best to make it true.
I hope they succeed. I’m an upper middle class individual who buys her health insurance on the federal exchange and is two years away from Medicare.
We’re holding sick children hostage, so do what we want.
“Death panel” - see Republican Congress
This is the exact opposite of leadership and why the Framers opposed “factions”. Any bill that has 51 votes should be put on the floor. Period. End of story. This one would likely have at least 70, if not more. Rule by a minority clique is an abomination.
Democrats need to make sure that voters are reminded, over and over again (repetition is one of the best ways to make an idea stick) that Republicans are in charge of Congress, and Republicans are responsible for refusing to fix Obamacare’s weaknesses.
Florida, Utah, Tennessee? I hope their rates go up 180%, maybe they’ll think twice about voting for these shitheals or anyone like them ever again. But I know it won’t make a difference either way to the GOP/Trump voter. They’ll say it is because of Obama, or gays, or Muslims, and these morons will believe it.
In Alexander’s home state of Tennessee, the insurer Cigna is hiking premiums by 36.5 percent, and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee by 21 percent, “most of which is attributed to federal uncertainty,”
Tennessee needs to just keep telling themselves that Obamacare is socialism and this is what freedom is all about.
Because MAGA.
and reasons.
Why do we have private insurance if they continue to hike prices for health insurance? Do health insurance companies really need to hike insurance rates? It seems to me that insurance companies hiking their prices every year to make more profit is the biggest reason to go to Medicare for all. If republicans think that by killing the ACA is going to make healthcare better in the US than they are terribly wrong. The ACA was the solution to make sure more Americans had healthcare. Democrats compromised on voting for it even though it was a republican plan.
We must destroy Obamacare in order to save it.
You sound like my wife from two years ago. Used to laugh about it, hoping for the day she turned 65 so to be eligible for Medicare.
This is your country. These are Republican’ts. This is your country on Republican’ts. Any questions?
Yep, same as it ever was.
Actually the framers also feared tyranny, which is why they created the Senate, where each state got the same number of votes regardless of population. They feared a system where the larger, higher-population states could impose their will on the rest of the country. The current Senate majority is composed of Senators from states that represent a fraction of the country’s total population. Of course, that was designed to protect the interests of slave-owners, and to persuade them into supporting the Constitution, but that is the system we have. Here is a link to an interesting essay on Small State Senate Bias:
http://robertdfeinman.com/society/senate_vs_population.html
Here is a more recent article from the inimitable Ed Kilgore:
This is what you get when you have a backward national health-care-for-profit system and an ideological corrupt political party who worship at the altar of the free market.
MEDICARE. FOR. ALL and let health insurance companies go the way of the horse and buggy.
And one more thing … Republicans are Evil and must be Destroyed!
It is the senate rules where the problem lies. Those rules are set and altered by the majority party every year, or whenever it is convenient. One of the rules is that the majority leader decides what bills will be brought to the floor. When Republicans are the majority they will never bring a bill to the floor if it needs Democratic votes to pass. Don’t blame the framers of the Constitution for this bastard of a set of rules.
Unfortunately the Democrats feed from the same trough as the Republicans, they just have better manners. Ultimately the problem with congress is their need to raise obscene amounts of money for their campaigns. That problem is even harder to solve than healthcare.
Well, yes, but that should not stop Democrats from pointing fingers at the Republicans, and with good reason.