Discussion for article #237711
Thanks for nothing, dipshit. You won’t get elected and you could’ve helped thousands of us when you were in office.
-Signed
A Texan
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IF the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidy every single Justice who votes for it should resign in shame. For more than 200 years, the State has been read to mean the Government- as in Church and State. The phraseology in the law is inelegant, but it can and should be read the Government not the individual states.
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I can’t think of any other way to do this that’s thoughtful
“Thoughtful” is not a word I would normally associate with Rick Perry, but I guess that’s what the new eyeglasses are for.
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Hey, Rickey; hey, Rickey.
Republicans have been trying to sink this [Obamacare] “ship” for years. Why would any of you be concerned about it “turning it around”?
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I strongly doubt it will be overturned; If there were much likelihood, health insurer stocks would be down sharply, and they are not. In fact they are at all-time highs. So the smart money isn’t worried. But I like the idea of a temporary extension, followed by another and then another out until, say 2050 or so, by which time the Republicans will finally give up their charade of having an alternative.
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So he supports the Ron Johnson re election act, then take insurance away in January 2017.
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Some GOP legislators have floated plans that would temporarily extend the subsidies until, they hope, a Republican would be in the White House to push a full-scale Obamacare repeal and replacement.
So, in a very contrived and convoluted way, if SCOTUS were to actually hand the GOP what they’ve been screaming for for years now, the GOP will actually be forced into the position of some sort of a “fix” to the ACA. If they’re not going to support just yanking the subsidies immediately … or even in the year or two thereafter–in effect, leaving most of (if not all of) the law in place–they’ll be forced to devise their own plan that very likely really wouldn’t take away what’s already been given, but just do it (the same) under a newer name. At that point, with a new name and a tweak here and there, the good citizens of America would be forced to do nothing but shower the GOP for their great and wonderful GOP-Care. Am I reading their tea leaves, here, correctly? They are setting the stage to “fix it–by calling it a new name–not kill it.”
And there goes the Perry campaign down the tubes.
The transition period will make it easier for dimwits with Rethuglican-level math skills to “keep score.”
The plan is this…submit a “fix” like the Johnson plan (extend it through the election, but remove the individual mandates immediately),which is completely unworkable and will be vetoed if it could get through Congress (it wouldn’t), and the claim that its Obama/Dems fault for not fixing the law and scream that message from every megaophone they can find until after the elections.
At which point they just shrug it off and let the whole thing die.
How odd would it be for the subsidies to be overturned, and a “temporary extension” written up until a new health law is passed…and then no new health law passes? In effect you’d have a “one line fix” while saying there wouldn’t be a “one line fix.”
I know it’s highly unlikely, but is something like that possible? I imagine any temporary fix would include language of permanent termination or other riders that the President is likely to not want to sign.
If the law is all bad, how does temporarily extending it make any sense? So that the awful affordability wears off slowly or what.
If the Repubs push this until after 2016, then they have to deal with Hillary, who is a woman scorned over not just Ben Ghazi but also her own healthcare plan. She will take the ball and run.
The public has tasted affordable healthcare and we like it, so the issue is even a bigger loser for the Republicans now more than ever.
The ACA is about plan D in fact, B would’ve been so terrific that the Repubs would be reduced to crying all day long by now and Plan A is universal coverage for all, the Cadillac Plan.
Temporary insurance is an oxy moron. There is nothing reassuring about having temporary insurance with no end date. Could be 5 years, could be tomorrow. The denials would be permanent of course as would the bills be.