Obamacare foes are trying to wreck a lot of havoc on the health care market
Dear Tierney,
wreck [rek]
verb (used with object)
- to cause the wreck of (a vessel); shipwreck.
- to involve in a wreck.
- to cause the ruin or destruction of: to wreck a car.
- to tear down; demolish: to wreck a building.
- to ruin or impair severely: Fast living wrecked their health.
verb (used without object) - to be involved in a wreck; become wrecked: The trains wrecked at the crossing.
- to act as a wrecker; engage in wrecking.
wreak [reek]
verb (used with object)
- to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.
- to carry out the promptings of (oneâs rage, ill humor, will, desire, etc.), as on a victim or object: He wreaked his anger on the office staff.
So Republicans can try to wreck Obamacare or they can try to wreak havoc on Obamacare, but they canât try to wreck havoc on Obamacare. I thought youâd want to know this since writers should be known for their skill in using language, not in misusing it. Just because it gets past the spellchecker doesnât mean itâs correct.
Youâre welcome.
Thanks for posting this correction, because there really isnât enough pedantry on online comment forums.
Err⌠Republicans have been trying to break every single social program that benefits others in the US of A since their inception in order to declare them broken. Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, SNAP, Housing Assistance, SSI, Pell Grants, Child Nutrition, Unemployment Benefits, Homeless Shelters, Head Start⌠The list is very, very long. They start before the law even gets signed, and the opposition never ever ends.
About the only thing they DO support are tax cuts, military expenditures (for their own states only), and any tax breaks that benefit the wealthy.
So I would hope it wonât be a surprise to absolutely anyone in this world that theyâd try to do the exact same thing to Obamacare.
Would be great if they were instead trying to wreak havoc on a single payer system. itâs ok, eventually the âsaneâ republicans will be in charge again, and all this compromise will pay off. Privatization is the problem, would be nice if the Democratic Party and their candidate of choice acknowledged this fact.
Republicans are why we canât have nice things.
This has always been their way, declare something broken then go out a break it to prove their point.
Huh? I am sorry but this comment is making zero sense to me. What compromise? And no it would not be anymore âniceâ for them to be trying to wreck havoc on a single payer system. And I am sorry it is not privatization that is the problem. Every country that has a truly effective universal healthcare system, one that delivers quality care while controlling costs, has a hybrid mix of both private and government run health insurance system.
Depriving people of health care is immoral. Next time you meet a Republican, run the other way.
Republicans trying to break the ACA in order to say itâs broken?
Speaking from NC, where our government hasnât even tried to cover that up, hell, theyâve reveled in it.
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Republicans obviously donât care about the people who actually get caught in the crossfire. Unconscionable, but what else is new?
Hopefully a lot of this nonsense goes away when Hillary appoints the ninth Justice for the SCOTUS.
Depriving senior citizens, their base, better health care.
Republicans work to make the lives of their voters harder, so they can convince their voters to vote Republican to make their lives better.
[Their more recent efforts to attack the law wonât so much destroy it, but rather seem to be part of a larger plan to cause enough chaos to give the perception that Obamacare is failing.
âThey started out strong and they got progressively weaker and theyâve become progressively less important,â Nicholas Bagley, a professor of health law at the University of Michigan, told TPM about the long conservative legal effort to undermine Obamaâs signature legislative achievement.]
This is a piece designed for handwringing.
What a bunch of sad and pathetic people that donât care one bit who they hurt trying to make their opponent look bad. They really have some fucked up brain biochemistry that this seems ok. I mean god damn they could really make Obama look bad and themselves look good by changing Obama Care so dramatically that it was a whole lot better and theyâd actually help people. But no, their only goal is to try and make Obama and Democrats look bad and they just donât care how badly they hurt anyone. It borders on treason and disloyalty in my mind.
@frankly_my_dear, There are some folks who, in spite of their best efforts, just canât write well. Itâs a very difficult skill, and they have trouble with not only spelling but grammar, syntax, exposition, pacing, and plot development. But at least they try. The âpointer-outersâ do nothing butâŚpoint things out. Câest la vie, no?
Not a minor point, but, Medicaid isnât just for seniors. That would be Medicare. Which is not say they havenât been looking to eff that up, too. âMarket solutionsâ doncha know.
She âwritesâ for a living. And he pointed it out w/o getting all smugy about it.
Donât worry, folks, the grammar police are on the scene.
You totally saved the article dude; because the other 99.938% of the content was wreaked until you came and saved the day!
In defense of @frankly_my_dear, from all you nitpickers attacking us grammar/spelling obsessives, I was about to post something similar. Itâs far from the first time that particular mistake has been wrought on these pages. English is full of homophones that seem to confuse the crap out of lots of folks, but one would hope (often in vain, it seems) that professional writers might improve their batting averages by reference to a dictionary. Seems to be an unfashionable and old-fashioned notion. Words do have meaning and consequences.
Who said this recently: âThose were just words.â? Yep, thatâs right. That articulate bamboozler with a head covering from the side of the road - after the crows were finished with it.
They crossed that border under ReganâŚ