The GOPers seem to think they’ve got a great answer to that: no one is losing a subsidy, they say, it just means Obama lied when he told people they could have one! So it’s all his fault. Or, they say that no premium is going up – just that vile takers will no longer be able to steal money from virtuous makers to pay for their insurance.
Of course, such pathetic sophistry will convince no one who isn’t already a right-wing ideologue. People have insurance now, and the GOP is saying they should lose it. It’s quite simple.
Not a chance. All they will hear is Obama care raises premiums from their politicians and the news media. Add in the special segments about people who lost the ACA coverage and die as a result. It in no way would reflect well on Obama or (D)s.
Uh… if people hear stories about people who had ACA coverage and died because they lost it, how would they blame the people who gave them the coverage rather than the people who took it away… i.e., why would they blame Obamacare for people who gutted Obamacare?
If people were that dumb, Obama wouldn’t have been reelected, the GOP would have taken the Senate in 2012, people would have cheered the shutdown, etc., etc.
Complete “the media will brainwash everyone to mindlessly believe all GOP lies” despair is neither helpful nor realistic.
Well my President is coming to Los Angeles tomorrow and will be raising a boatload of money for the 2014 elections and for the DNC. Apparently they were in debt $28 million and now they are only in $3 million debt thanks to this VERY UNPOPULAR president.
F’you republicans and thank you Mr. President. You are welcome in Los Angeles anytime even if you do muck up the traffic even worse than it already is.
Because their politicians want to keep their jobs?
One thing most politicians, including most tea party politicians, can do very well is count.
It is easy to oppose Obamacare in the abstract, but once people start enjoying the benefits, it becomes really, really hard to oppose unless you are totally committed to political suicide.
I don’t think it will come to this. The logistical and political problems of suddenly deciding the subsidies can’t happen in certain states are enough that in the end the courts won’t go there.
This should be the #1 campaign topic for all Democratic challengers to Republican governors: Your Republican state’s refusal to implement an exchange (based on a democratically-approved Federal law) is going to cause your rates to go up 80%.
Republicans want to raise your rates and cost you more money.
Republicans are going to try and blame this on Obamacare. We need to flip the script and make sure the blame sticks where it belongs.
There are other civilized countries that have Obamacare-like systems with 100% coverage. Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, for example. Such plans can work, and work very well, as Obamacare has been working in the US. After 1 year, the number of uninsured has plunged and will fall further in the coming years.
THIS is still undoubtedly the most appropriate comment EVER made to describe the GOPigs’ health plan:
** “Don’t get sick and if you do get sick, die quickly”
– Allen Grayson.**
I still find it extremely amusing the Mecha-Godzilla-levels of butthurt Rightard’ Wingnuts all round responded with over that one when it describes them absolutely perfectly.
Meanwhile, Harry Reid puts a 10 word, one-sentence fix bill on the floor see if the GOP filibusters it. If they do, run ads in every state on the Federal exchange with a GOP Senator - not just the ones up for re-election - call them out and say they want your healthcare premiums to rise 60
Then go after Boehner & Co. in the House and at the same time put this on the State legislatures and Governors who BS’d this - especially guys in normally blue states like NJ and PA and WI…
Believe me, this is not a decision the GOP really wanted.
Oh yes! I’m well aware of it. The percentage of people with no health insurance has reached
the lowest point ever recorded, and in California, the number of
uninsured people has been reduced by half.
Business Insider reports that at the national level, the uninsured
rate as measured by the Gallup organization has declined from 17.1% in
the last quarter of 2013 to 13.4% at the end of the second quarter of
2014. In addition to the combined 9.5 million people who signed up for
private insurance under the Affordable Care Act plus those who benefited
from the expansion of Medicaid under the ACA, the improved economy is
also resulting in more people being covered through employers.
www.businessinsider.com
The Uninsured Rate Has Massively Plunged, And It’s Now At The Lowest Point Gallup Has Ever Recorded
And…In California, KPCC reports that a survey by the Commonwealth
Fund showed a much more dramatic cut in the uninsured rate, from 22% in
September 2013 to 11% at the end of June.
[The
Commonwealth Fund survey found that 61 percent of those who were newly
insured said they felt better off thanks to their new coverage. And
nearly four out of five said they were somewhat or very satisfied with
their new coverage.]
www.scpr.org
California’s uninsured cut in half under Obamacare, survey finds
The Commonwealth Fund survey found that 22 percent of the state’s
adults were uninsured before enrollment began last fall; by last month,
that number had fallen to 11 percent.
Quite frankly, in the unlikely event it were to lose, the White House should play hardball and apply the decision only to named plaintiffs only and tell anyone else who wanted such an exemption to file their own lawsuit. It’s simply impossible to run a country where issues that are debated literally for years, voted on and put in place, can be overturned by a single judge (given 2-1 or 5-4 rulings) years later. How is anyone supposed to plan for anything? this is plain and simple judicial tyranny.
