Wouldn’t that leave the so-called GOP “moderates”? Them and the unicorns?
More important stat: 85+% of citizens hate it, and we’re the ones who (should) count!
It occurs to me that Rand Paul was the most level headed sounding of the republican primary candidates and he’s still a massive nutter. Great party, guys.
This is part of the defense for the full cave-in: If both the left and the right hate it that means it’s in the middle where the silent majority live and that’s what we’ll vote for.
The supine MSM will agree because balance. Never mind that the actual bill is revanchist and reactionary in the extreme, barely stopping short of putting the weak and elderly out on an ice flow.
Rand Paul makes up his own statistics, just like he makes up his own facts. Actually more people hate this bill than he’s ready or willing to admit.
He knows its a stinker. He just hasn’t figured out how to play his little games of being that obnoxious contrarian he prides himself as. Having a good excuse to justify whatever he comes up with, to vote or not vote for this turd legislation, is gonna be especially difficult for him this time around. He’s one of those greedy doctor/legislators I would never find myself going to, even if he was the last doctor on earth. His oath to do no harm, is exacerbated by the fact that he almost willingly wants to screw over as many people as he can, and still get away with it. In the end, he’ll come up with some cockamamie Libertarian bullshit to rationalize his vote. Just watch. The longer they don’t have to vote, if at all, the more Paul can rationalize which way he would have gone.
A Faux Libertarian like RP cannot figure out how to thread his hyperbolic needle, so he’s going to throw gorilla dust at the whole thing and hope we all marvel at his acumen.
What he cannot deal with is presenting him (and his tribe) with a true “market solution” to health care services (not insurance, SERVICES). Ask RP what’s the best way to LOWER DEMAND for health care services. Ask him who needs more heath care services, unhealthy people or healthy people. Then, continue this Aristotelian method until you’ve gently led him to the obvious logical conclusion. If the US population is healthier, it will need less health care products/services. And, how do we get people to become more healthy?
Get the sugar industry out of our schools (and most foods)
Subsidize super foods (spinach, kale, beets, beans, garlic, broccoli)
Stop subsidizing corn and most animal protein industries (beef, pork, chicken, lamb)
Use PSAs to encourage/educate people about healthy food choices (mainly plants)
Then, provide a Public Option for health insurance (Medicare for all, or better yet, single payer)
Negotiate drug prices with Big Pharma
Lowering demand for health care services will absolutely lower the price/cost. Once the momentum starts in the right direction, it will only gain power. Within a generation, we’d have lowered out national expenditure on health care by a massive amount.
Thanks, Rand, for listening to and agreeing with this obvious libertarian economic plan to solve our exploding health care problem.
“So there’s concerns on the right and left side. When the right and the left hate something, you really have difficulty I think getting any popular support,” he said.
The other you load up with Christmas ornaments, gifts, money, pile money on it that the Democrats will vote for and some of the Republicans will vote for,
Nice false equivalencies asswipe. The middle ground isn’t repeal, and you’re still a wingnut.
Your “Christmas ornaments, gifts, money, pile money” are what’s known across our country as life, subsistence, human dignity, survival, and living paycheck-to-paycheck. Please just fuck over your own constituencies and leave the rest of America alone.