Originally published at: Trump Camp Attempts Damage Control After Johnson Caught Being Too Explicit About Gutting ACA
The Trump campaign continued its dance of bamboozlement on where the Republican Party actually stands when it comes to gutting the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday night, after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) acknowledged that Republicans will tackle “massive reform” of Obamacare should Donald Trump win the presidency and the GOP keep the House. In…
Tonight at 6: The verbatim words of a stone liar.
He speaks, we record.
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Closing the barn door after the horse has already left.
Too late.
But I’m also not certain how much impact this will have. So many have already voted and those that were going to vote for TIFBG will still do so, as long as the ‘other’ is the one that gets hurt.
Won’t change Harris voters at all.
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The ACA is based on Romneycare, which was always the Republican health insurance plan. So the GOP was left without an alternative, because Obama stole theirs. And that’s what’s wrong with the ACA – the best feature was Medicaid expansion, which wasn’t a right-wing idea and 25 states rejected it.
President Obama promised his plan would have a public option, and there would not be a for-profit private insurance mandate. Then he and his congressional allies delivered the opposite of what was promised, even though they had enough votes in the House and Senate to do it right.
What’s better than the ACA? Medicare for All. I’m guessing Trump and MAGA Mike are not advocating that.
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Johnson will be the second guy thrown under the bus. He might as well give back the gavel.
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If you speak with many Repubs they do not like Obama care but ACA is OK.
Really!
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My wife is a healthcare consultant (to independent physician associations and hospitals) and we live in rural GA - I can not tell you how many Trump voters - friends, neighbors, family - she has helped get healthcare through the ACA. We sit around stupefied by the irony of it constantly.
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I really wish someone would write on exactly who it is that most benefits from Obamacare.
That is what is missing from all this is that over 70% of the 30,000,000 Americans who have health insurance for themselves and their children are White people with a high school diploma or less living disproportionally in the South or as the media calls them, the base of the Republican Party.
Furthermore, but for sadistic Republican governors denying no cost to their state health insurance to their citizens, that number would be much higher.
This is so important because if you ask most people who do not need Obamacare for their health insurance, they will tell you Obamacare is for minorities. Which by the way, is exactly why Republicans named the ACA “Obamacare” to begin with, to give the impression it is for “those undeserving others”.
The fact that at least half of Obamacare beneficiaries, like Mitt Romney’s “47%”, are White working class people who support Trump and Republicans like Johnson is the most important not reported story of the last 20 years.
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The Speaker wants to take a blowtorch to the ACA and regulation because in his pants he knows the great Sate of Louisiana has fabulous healthcare for all. And the ACA is preventing the great state from making it even better!!!
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I have one strong disagreement with your otherwise accurate post.
Because of Joe Lieberman, Democrats did not have enough Democrats in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. Lieberman announced that he would oppose any and all bills that had a public option. Hence to pass anything against unified Republican opposition, the public option had to be dropped.
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How’s your new doggy doing?
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Yeah, but as long as it’s not Obamacare. I swear, the average sea slug is more intelligent than these imbeciles.
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“A blowtorch to the regulatory state.” He means Obamacare. By this definition, Social Security and Medicare also represent “the regulatory state.” Given the GOP’s enduring hatred for both of those programs, it’s very hard not to conclude that when Johnson says Trump will “go big” he means they’ll take a blowtorch to SS and Medicare.
Let’s see, what else? Federal backing for student loans? Biden’s IRA provisions. The Postal Service? WIC? Anything else the federal government does to enhance the lives of ordinary and poor Americans.
Johnson is talking like they’ve already won–that is, telling the truth about R policies. Musk, too, with his remark about Americans having to “suffer” if Trump wins–ordinary Americans, that is, not rich ones.
It’s like they’re telling on themselves. Weird.
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Oops.
“We want to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state. These agencies have been weaponized against the people. It’s crushing the free market; it’s like a boot on the neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers. And so health care is one of the sectors, and we need this across the board,” Johnson continued.
“…And we’re gonna get that national abortion ban, too” Johnson finished, counting his legislative chicks one week out from election day.
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Ninety years on, they’re still fighting a rear-guard action against the apostate FDR.
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Joking again. Always joking, theez guys, amiright? Take backs, “distancing,” mulligans for Repugnicans. “Trash islands, shithole countries, enemies within.” Oh but we didn’t really mean that.
But if Biden misspeaks, whoa Nelly! The end of civilization!
Fucking hell, man.
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“agencies have been weaponized against the people”
He means “the 1%” people.
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