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8 months prior to Medicare eligibility, after 2 years of being uninsured, I got Obamacare just in time to discover and treat a serious illness.
Pure luck, but Obamacare saved my life. Why the Dems think they have to answer for this blessing is beyond rationality.
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Because the media MUST be even-handed! And they have to ask “the questions people want answered” – “people” being the corporate goons who run the networks and hate Obama.
Oh, one more thing: The GOTP isn’t interested in “trade-offs.” The only thing they want is for Obamacare to be gone, and then to be able to keep changing subjects when people ask, "So what are you going to replace it with?
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“improvements to the law would you be willing to vote for right now that could win support from House Republicans?” That’s like asking how many snowballs can survive a summer in Houston Texas. The simple fact of the matter is that there are NO Republicans willing to support “improvements” to the ACA. The disingenuous author, Dylan Scott, already knows this.
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Totally agree on that. Scott is trying to gin up a scenario that doesn’t really exist. As far as I’m concerned, what this article shows is why Dems need to keep their support for the ACA short and simple. One question leads to another which leads to another, etc. Next thing you know, they’re cornered into “apologizing” for something that should be a winning argument. And for those “refusnik” states, Dems need to be loud and clear who’s to blame for their “opt out” - and it ain’t them!
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“If I was a journalist, these are the questions I would ask” wrote Dylan Scott, Mrs. Peterson’s class, Third Grade, North Canton Elementary.
Even for TPM this is poor.
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I would ask more questions.
First, why so many Democrats running for election or re-election are, to put it mildly, non-committal in their support for Obamacare.
Second, why, after more than 4 years since it’s passage into law, is public support for Obamacare still lacking. In their most recent poll, AP found total support for Obamacare at 28%.
Ask all politicians and Americans:
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Do you support reverting to a system that denies people health insurance based on pre-exisiting conditions?
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Do you support reverting to a system that permits insurance companies to spend less than 80% of the money collected in premiums on patient care?
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Do you support reverting to a system that imposes caps on how much money insurance companies will pay over the course of a patient’s lifetime?
Repealing ACA/Obamacare means doing all of these things.
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Almost makes you wonder why a TPM reporter isn’t also desperate to ask such questions of a non-Democrat.
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Uhh…doesnt the GOTP have to answers those same questions too? Pretty sure Dems will have better answers than the Cons will, even if they dont have good answers. The Cons answers are even worse…
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There was a lot of opposition at first with SS, Medicare and Part D too…Until people actually started using them.
Let’s see how popular OC is in 5-10 years. Public attitudes can easily change over time.
The premise of this article is faulty. The questions presented entirely give a free pass to Republicans and their non-compliance and non-acceptance of the law of the land. It’s not Democrats who need to answer tough questions on Obamacare.
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This is so much like the argument that if only Obama played more golf with the GOP. Repugs in the house will not vote to improve the ACA even if 99% of Americans supported the change.
O-care? Now it’s O-care? Why? O fuck!
Actually, I rather like this list of questions. First, because for the most part they’re perfectly legitimate. And second, because the perfectly accurate premise behind most of them is that the cause of the particular problem in question is the intransigence and sabotage of the Republicans. The commenters here complaining that Dylan let them off scot-free (so to speak) didn’t read this very carefully – or his prior installment at all. IMHO.
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Democrats should just make the Republicans own “Obamacare” and talk about all the positives that are in the Affordable Care Act that Republicans are hell-bent on taking away from people! Democrats should also ask the questioner to ask the Republicans why they keep calling the Affordable Care Act “Obamacare” and keep scaring and misleading their constituents , instead of helping them get access to health care!! That will shut-up the media for a little bit because it would make them have to look at themselves and see that they were the mouthpiece of the Republicans’ “Obamacare” scare and smear campaign all along!