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Stop Playing Defense on Obamacare, Republicans!
Posted On 14 Feb 2017
If you didn’t know better, you’d think it was the Republican Party that dreamed up the Affordable Care Act back in 2010. After all, as the country watches this abomination of a healthcare law implode on itself, it seems to be the GOP taking the brunt of the backlash. And instead of standing their ground and fighting back, too many Republicans on Capitol Hill seem to be thinking about retreat. We’ve even begun to hear the first tentative whisperings of a “repair” bill instead of the repeal-and-replace America was promised in the election.
Obamacare is doomed. That’s the message the Republicans need to hammer – day in, day out – until there is a repeal bill on the floor. Do not let the Democrats get away from this. Do not kick this can down the road so far that your party becomes synonymous with the death spirals currently hitting the health insurance marketplace. The longer you let this law decay, the easier it will be for the Democrat-Media alliance to take you down with the ship.
President Trump was not vague about this on the campaign trail. He promised full repeal. He promised a full replacement. And of all the things he proposed last year, this was one of the least controversial from a conservative standpoint. The Republican Party has been focused on Obamacare for six years now. There’s absolutely no reason for the confusion we’re currently seeing inside the party establishment.
Is this the party of the free market or isn’t it? Well, then it’s time to start acting like it. It’s time to stop pretending that America can’t live without a healthcare law comparable to Obamacare. There are common-sense, conservative solutions that have been bandied about for years. Pick one of them, and let’s get to it!
Republicans are afraid. They don’t want to come up with a shoddy plan and then be hit with a political backlash when the media twists it to suit their agenda. Well, guess what? That’s going to happen, no matter what. Unless the GOP wants to join up with Bernie Sanders and pass universal health coverage, they are going to get savagely criticized for whatever comes down the pike. So what? Don’t try to escape the inevitable. Take your message to the people, get all the facts straight, and do what you know is right. Do what’s best for the country – not what’s best for your reputation in the Washington Post.
It is hard to drain the swamp when you are up to your ass in alligators!
Take those alligators and put them in the Mexican border .
inside a huge moat!
McCain, Graham, and the republicrats in the great NE had better get in line and repeal Obamacare. In toto. and then do nothing else. As far as the people who are now on Obamacare being cut off it would go back the way it was which was the best medical care in the world.
Your last statement is questionable, but not really the point. The quality of healthcare is not the issue. The issue is access.
The issue is the Mandate, And remember the Supreme court said it was a tax. I will never forget how the witch Pelosi said you must pass Obamacare before you read it, It has been a huge burden to all but a few, And we are not socialists so stop this now while we still can!!.
Democrats do not want to hear those facts..
Everyone has access deary. It’s the idiots that don’t work towards having a job that supplies it.
I went into the Marines (1973) because I knew that a white kid coming out of highschool not going to college was not a recipe for success. The Marines trained me, gave me free room and board along with medical. I got hurt in Grenada and was medically discharged and knew I needed to figure out quick what I was going to do. Luckily this was before all the illegals took over construction jobs and that’s what I saw as my direction. I wanted more than a job that was at the whim of either a boss or the economy so I worked during the day and studied at night. I got my General Contractors license after 5 years and started my own company….. I don’t know if you see where this is going but I’ll tell you this. Nothing was ever given to me, or handed down to me….I’ve worked hard and long hours to get where I’m at. Sob stories are for those without drive or a sense of worth. Want to be a person that doesn’t have any responsibility or just an easy job that doesn’t work you. That’s up to you, but it shouldn’t be my responsibility to pay for what you lack…I have no problem taking care of those that are handicapped to the point they can’t care for themselves. The rest, yeah Darwin has a theory and since you all don’t want to be Christians….Darwin is good by me.
My premiums went up 150% the first year and that was after I went from having a PPO to an HMO to keep it below 200%. That meant we couldn’t keep the same doctor we had for over 25 years. My deductible went from $500 to $2500 and everything is going up again this year.
Obamacare needs to be repealed and sent to the cylinder file asap.
Great comment!
You are so wrong , the Quality has not improved , what has improved was Higher cost and less coverage with higher deductible .The only thing the ACA did was to eliminate prior conditions, but no one said at what cost it would be .They did not need 2700 pages to make that change. You need to look at how much money the Insurance industry spends on campaign money as well as lobbying.
We know Trump is getting beaten from the right more than from the left. We are hearing Trump may quit after six months- He already has enough from Repubs and TPs whining about his presidency. Romney is the only one praising Trump. Of course Romney may be vice president if Trump quits. I like Trump for one policy. He is going to expand Obamacare to cover all Americans and without them paying out of picket premium. With that policy Trump is losing friends from FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Ted Cruz. I loved it when Trump said he was going to expand Obamacare. I wish Trump the best for we “bleed the same blood.”
I said something similar as you, that Trump must be starting to curse the day he won the Presidency with all the aggravation he is getting. I hope he sticks it out and stays strong.
The insurance industry is not the business of government in a free society. No one owes you a damned thing, not transportation, food, medical care, housing, etc. Opportunity is the precious jewel of liberty. A commensurate level of responsibility comes with this greatest of gifts. Those who would give up essential liberty for security deserve neither.
What a dummy! Trump will fund his One-Payer health insurance with 0.01 check off at the sale counter. So only you rich morons will pay the premium for us poor. You’re going to purchase boats, expensive cars, private jets, trains etc. I am asking Trump not to quit before he expands Obamacare. We love Trump for that!
I see you’re one of those who deserve nothing.
Another LibTARD Low Life !!!!
I WRITE EMAIL EVERY SINGLE DAY TO MY REPRESENTATIVES AND GIVE THEM HELL, I WROTE OBAMINATION AND HITLERY SO MUCH THEY SENT TWO SECRET SERVICE AGENTS TO MY HOUSE!! THEY WERE NICE AND WE HAD A FEW LAUGHS STATED I DID NOTHING WRONG IT WAS JUST THE WAY I SAID ” OBAMINATION WAS NOT BLACK HALF BREED SUNNI MUSLIM MARXIST TRAITOR AND THE FIRST GAY MUSLIM PRESIDENT” nothing wrong with that!!! vietnam vet
Remember the Walter Reed scandal?
Who was president?
Who was Secretary of the VA?
Our ONLY president, that ordered our troops to fire upon our vets, was Herbert Hoover!
Ever read about the BONUS MARCH?
Our ONLY, convicted, Secretary of the Veteran’s Bureau was Charles Forbes!
Harding was president!
PERFECTLY CLEAR?
There have been so many VA hospital scandals, it seems to make the rounds. All in my area have been hit more than three different times. That is in a 3 hundred mile radius.
are republicans in congress spineless?? appears so. they hesitate to repeal and replace obamacare because they do not want to take the heat….well as the old saying goes then get out of the kitchen. call your senators and congressmen today.
There is more than health care in those 2700 pages , remember the SC ruled as a tax and not health care.
I think they became too used to “Kow-towing” to King osama!
Stop the delays you “republican” jelly fish. Repeal Obamacare immediately and then, if you must, work on a replacement. Personally, I fail to see the reason for government intruding itself into the insurance business. There was no government run “healthcare” (other than the VA and that is an example of government bungling at its best) before “Obamacare” so simply return to that with no more dipping into the treasury for “freebies”.
With Obamacare the taxpayers are still subsidizing the costs of those who can’t pay the big money for premiums just like the costs for giving them care was hidden in the costs of our medical care prior to ObamaCare. The big difference now is that a HUGE Government beauracracy has been created to add to our costs and the Pharmacitical companies are raking in huge profits.
Don’t forget the part of taking money from Medicare and putting into Medicaid .
Hoo boy, you are SOOOO right!
Throw it in the TRASH!!
I hope that the anonymous blogger “admin” reads the comments, and then has the courage to come out from behind the curtain and respond to a couple of questions.
1. What makes the ACA an abomination of a healthcare law? Come to that, what makes it a health CARE law? (It was actually an imperfect deal with insurance companies)
2. Why is Obamacare doomed? Because you want it to be? You have obviously not asked yourself (selves) why attempts to repeal the law were rejected – what was it? – fifty times during the last administration? Could there be a reason that even republicans are looking at the consequences of repeal with no replacement in sight?
3. Why has no republican come up with a replacement strategy? After all you/they have had since November 2009 to think about it.
There is more, but that will do for now.
It is very simple the Government should not dictate private health care . ACA is another welfare program. There was already Medicaid plus state and local free services plus your Famous baby killers PP. .
**** Correct because you are retired and probably have some type of insurance. *****
Think about all others!
Many individual are not on welfare, Medicaid or Medicare. The only rules that the government give is to make the system work.
Insurance companies cannot spend more than 10 or 15% on advertisement and add the cost to the policies.
Insurance companies cannot cancel a policy because of previous illness or injury.
Children under 27 can remain on their parents policies.
Companies with 50 or more employees must provide insurance.
The Exchange programs offers a Medicaid supplement for those under $80,000 if the state want to accept the funds.
The insurance plans offered through the exchange are developed for those receiving the Medicaid supplement and most of the premium is paid by the Federal government through a grant to the states. Twenty or more states refused to accept the supplemental payment that the federal government wanted to give them. They may not have wanted to pay the 10% that they would have to pay after so many years of 100% federal government assistance.
All other insurance policies are offered by the insurance company and are competitive.
All individual who are not insured by some insurance must pay a tax.
What else do you believe is in the package.
What you just explained took 2700 pages of the ACA ?? It is just another Welfare program so people live off the Gov. tit . Higher premiums-Higher Deductible – Insurance dictating what medicine you are allowed to have – Death squad determines if you will live any longer with medicine . I worked for what I have , never drew a penny of unemployment nor welfare.
How sad for a person to have such an attitude.
How fortunate it is for those of us who have been graced with the ability to continue working without sickness, job loss or the many other problems that are out there.
To be gifted with a mental capability to understand the systems and work within them. I have supervised individual who struggled with all sorts of problems, divorces, deaths in family, failure to past test because they just did not have the wherewithal to compete.
Now I have to read your garbage about your single success story. You are one sad individual and you need to rush out of your little tiny hole and join forces with the real world. Maybe you should join a church of some religion, I do not care which religion just so you can gain a little humility. If you are agnostic I suggest you become involved with some group of “do-gooder’s”. Anything that you do to help you overcome the selfish stupid thinking that you now have destroying your mind.
Sir you are not worth taking the time of day or the time that it is taking to type this.
Almost every word of your comment is erroneous.
Why did you retire from the Air force , you have Tricare for life and medicare if you are over 65 ???
When I retires there was no such thing as Tricare. I was insured by a WW II promise until Reagan said the government did not owe us the medical benefits and I was thrown off the base because there was a lack of space. My new job paid for my medical until they created Tricare for Life. When I became eligible for Medicare, naturally I took it even though my job was paying full benefits. After I retired from my second job the cost of medicine was going up. One year my second retirement company advised me they were only going to issue me a voucher for a specific amount if I did not have some other plan. I took Tricare and dropped the second job insurance voucher of very little worth.
That is one reason I have no concern for businesses who can just write you off with the stroke of a pen. If we do not have the Affordable Care Act the replacement better be very good or a lot of people are going to be hurting in this country.
I am well over 65.
Before tricare there was champus if you did at least 20 years If you are over 65 you have Medicare and Tricare so the ACA does not affect you. The ACA was a manipulated plan that back fired . If you remember the 70s the HMO was to be the answer to lower health care costs . Get the Gov. controls out of the Insurance industry . Remember the insurance industry lobby faught a national health care plan which would have been cheaper than the ACA and it could also eliminate Medicaid .
Yes I was pitched off the base and had to seek medical treatment off base.
Now I do not understand why you are telling me that ACA does not impact me. Are you saying I therefore am not allowed to read about it or study the plan or advise my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren about it.
I believe the ACA is a powerful tool and over the past 7 years could have been perfected to be the best. The Republican Party, as is your position, is “Only do away with it!” We will not study it we will not support it in at least 20 states by accepting the Medicaid payments from the federal government, because we do not want to pay the 10 percent farther down the line to take care of our citizens. We do not believe in charity, we want our poor to work for less and we cannot get them to do that if we give them anything. (Southern Strategy).
I believe that in the end you are going to be disappointed!
President Trump has stated that they must come up with a replacement plan before he will sign any plan to scrap the ACA. Many representative are now frightened and realize that they cannot take away the benefits of the millions of their constituents to satisfy a few greedy people like you.
So maybe you should actually study the Affordable Care Act and stop talking nonsense about Death Squads.
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You just don’t seem to understand ACA was a welfare program. It was welfare from the IRS to people and welfare for the insurance co. participating . Also the Supreme court ruled it a tax ?? A national health plan would have been better. People pay based on Income A national health care could have eliminated Medicaid .Medicare has worked for decades You are not telling the whole story about kicked of base either .
“Also the Supreme court ruled it a tax ??”
No they ruled the “payment” that those who did not have insurance and worked, had to make was a tax.
“It was welfare from the IRS to people”
IRS dose not pay the supplemental payment payments it is paid from the general fund in the form of Medicaid Supplement.
I did not believe that it was necessary to explain my being kicked off base (out of the hospital treatment) (not off the base), and I do not have the letter that I received that stated there was no space available. Trust me it happened at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio I continued to use WPAFB for all other privileges and until my daughter came and got me my PC doctor was at WP. In DEERS he is still my PC because there is no available space where I live now.
Medicare continues to work and the Affordable Care Act has nothing, I mean absolutely nothing, to do with Medicare.
ACA is not a “was” it is an “is” at least until the current government can find an adequate replacement.
Terminology is every thing. Welfare is what is used to take care of individuals who cannot work, have children with low income and an assortment of other reasons. Mainly we think of women with children, but some others can get it some places.
The Affordable Care Act provides a supplement for working people to assist them in purchasing an insurance policy. Approximately 20 states did not accept the funds from the federal government so there citizens had to bear the total cost of the insurance (which was price by the insurance companies knowing the government was paying a large part of the money).
You can thank the state governments that refused to accept the money (Mainly southern states). The money that the government was using was the tax that those individuals who did not have insurance paid.
Mrs Clinton attempted to get a National Health Plan and it was shot out of the water. The Republican Party did every thing it could to prevent the ACA so there was no way to get to a single payer health plan. That will come later. Since there are so many individuals in this nation that do not want to help any one, it is going to be very difficult to ever get such a plan. In this nation it is almost hopeless for the government to run anything, therefor Social Security and Medicare are just about all the greedy foolish people in this nation will stand for. The Republican Party wants to do away with both of those programs and issue some type of voucher, which will be inadequate.
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Sir you are not worth taking the time of day or the time that it is taking to type this.
So why did you write an essay?
Because other read what I say!
With the dollar being replaced by a world currency and our unpayable debt, our government will not be able to borrow money. It will have to live on what taxes it takes in so there will be no money for social programs and a lot of other programs. We will be forced into a smaller government or default on payments of our debt. Printing money by the Fed will make things worse if they can do it since the dollar will be replaced with a world currency. The safety net will be gone no matter who is in charge.
one HUGE problem = we’re fully funding millions now of illegals&refugees – ALL expenses , ya’ think that might put a little drain on med care?
I believe you are not speaking the truth. Could you support your statement with facts.
JUST HOW MANY DO (A BRILLIANT FELLOW) LIKE YOU THINK ARE SELF SUPPORTING…how about you deliver facts about them coming here as – wealthy – self providing – great new prospective citizens.
Could you please explain to me just what it is that makes you believe that anyone can present themselves to any government office without prove of citizenship and apply for benefits. Where do they go.
If you go to any hospital and seek assistance the first thing ask is your identity. Now if you are a victim of an accident you may get treated.
If they are allowed into this nation as a vetted immigrant they are expected to find employment as soon as it is possible.
Perhaps you are using your imagination too much.
This nation is headed for a financial collapse due to the massive debt including all the corporate and personal debt. The dollar is losing its reserve currency status and is being replaced by a world currency the SDR. Our government will not be able to borrow money and will have only the money taken in with taxes. Most of our departments will have far less money to spend and some will be eliminated. Social programs will have to go, there will be no safety net. There will be no arguments about ACA, it will be gone because there will be no money. Most of the illegal immigrants will return back home. There will be a lot of change no matter who is in charge.
no-more excuses = just keep your promises = DUMP IT 100%…
Need to stop being afraid or they will lose seats.just do it. Damn elitists need to go.
SOS. U don’t even know what is in the Affordable Care Act.
U could not list the problems, U just say it is bad.
So you can tell us?
If you read you will see that I have told you many times.
The problem is most of those who do not like the Affordable Care Act have not actually studied it. They have let others tell them what is in the package.
The failure of the 20 states to accept the Medicare supplemental has caused great problems.
The crying of small business with 50 or more employees because they have to buy a policy for their employees gets a lot of attention. yet none of them have produced a tax return that proves they are loosing profit because of the health care payment.
When employers treat their employees correctly the employees become better workers. It can be proven that happy employees produce far more work and sabotage (waste) far less. You do not buy loyalty when you are not treating your personnel correctly.
What other problems are there with the program.
QUIT GRIPING ABOUT THE SLOW MOVING CONGRESS!!! Congress was DESIGNED by the Founders to move slowly so that there would be time to review what they were doing an AVOID MISTAKES. In this case it’s SUPER-important to avoid creating CHAOS that would happen if some people lost their Obamacare before an alternative system is in place.
Also HHS Secretary Tom Price was JUST confirmed (thanks, Chuck Schumer — if this was football you’d be penalized for “DELAY OF GAME”!). DR. PRICE is the guy who’s going to be IN CHARGE of the repeal/replace conversion, so you can hardly have expected much action before he got onto the job. Now he needs his deputy who actually RUNS the programs. Seema Verma. a specialist in Medicare programs from Indiana (Pence country!) is in line for that job, assuming Chuck Schumer will get the hell out of her way. THEN the work can begin!
The Speaker has outlined a 200-day program for doing Obamacare, taxes, immigration, and a bunch of other stuff. He expects to MEET that timeline (which is about normal for new administrations — the ‘100 days’ only worked ONCE, and that was for FDR in 1933, when he had about 80% of the Senate & House and half his program was declared unconstitutional, anyway. If Trump’s performance was THAT BAD, he’d be IMPEACHED.
SO RELAX! The program IS on track, just slower than YOU (probably with NO basis for comparison) expected.
YOU WILL GET JUST WHAT YOU WANT!!!
I have no idea what you’re talking about, since I didn’t say I wanted ANYTHING. Your post sounds rather threatening, which might upset me if I hadn’t been threatened by experts often, and I’m still here. NO CLUE what you mean, though!
perhaps you are too stupid to know how ignorant you are.
If your head wasn’t in your butt when dumbocRATs rammed AACA down your throat, you knew THEN AACA was designed to fail so globalists could shove single payer in your rectum. REPEAL and REPLACE with market based system.
For Eight Years GOP REPUBLICANS SAID… NO! NO! NO! you JERKS GOT JUST WHAT YOU WANT!!!! DONALD J. TRUMP SO SUCK ON THAT FOR A WHILE!!!!
Insurers have been making clear that it’s GOP dithering over the ACA
that is contributing to their uneasiness. The death spiral hasn’t
emerged yet, but as insurers ponder whether to participate in the
individual exchanges in 2018—a decision that many must make by April—the
GOP’s lack of planning could produce it. Now to the GOP repeal
and replace proposal. In major ways, the proposal would hammer
low-income Americans with higher healthcare costs while providing a
greater cushion, even a handout, to the wealthy.
It’s a democrat signature program, give it enough time and Obamacare will self destruct leaving the democrats responsible. Then go in and pick up the pieces and be the heroes. There is no hurry to get involved, according to democrats it’s a great working program. Let’s see how great it is when the rest of the insurance companies pull out on their own.
Say Allan are you reading the news. The congress has been struggling with a means of repealing the program.
The people that voted for President Trump woke up and found out that the ACA and Obamacare were the same program and they were going to be kicked to the curb.
Now they fear for “their” ACA benefits.
President Trump will not sign a repeal that does not adequately replace the current bill.
So now it leaves individuals like you who do not really keep up with the news in the dark.
Please read the current news and stop reading the news that was printed when President Obama was still in office.
Same bull$h!t we’ve seen from Returdlicans for the last 2 decades. Political promises and zero follow through.
We need term limits to remove these money grubbing, self serving, RINO maggots!
REPUBLI-RATS ARE SPINELESS PUNKS AND IF THE REPUBLI-RAT VOTERS DON’T PUT REAL AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN INTO THEIR PLACES WE WILL GET THE SAME INSANE MCCAIN, PAUL RYAN, MCCONNELL AND THE REST OF THE AHOLE RINO’S DOING THE DEMO-RATS WORK FOR THEM!!! VOTE THEM OUT AND HOLD THEM TO THEIR WORD BY CONTACTING THEM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TIME WILL ALLOW , I EMAIL MY REPS AN PRES EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! VIETNAM VET
get rid of obama nocare , and if the repubs dont get rid of it we will get rid of them, vote them out .
Kill Obamacare. Government may do well to advise and assist the insurance industry and the general public at length in this matter. Then back away. Get out of private industry!
With how the media is treating President Trump and the possible success the Left may have in two years It is time to vote down the so called ACA. The Dems are likely to coalesce for the midterm election and possibly gain a majority in one house of Congress. Now is the time to act.
Cannot be the Republicans, they are not idiots like the Democrats.
WHEN WILL YOU STOP BEING AN ODUMBO CONGRESS???? ON YOUR KNEES AND KISSING ASS????? IF YOU CAN’T DO THE JOB….. GET OUT…. WE CAN EASILY REPLACE YOU WITH SOMEONE WHO CAN AND WILL DO THE JOB!!! AND CONGRESS???? PASS A LAW… IF WE THE CITIZENS ARE NOT HAPPY WITH OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE…… WE CAN HOLD A SPECIAL ELECTION AND REPLACE THE ODUMBO WITH A REAL, HONEST, MORAL MAN….. AND IN ARIZONA…..LET’S START WITH THE REMOVAL OF MCCAIN!!!!
You can only replace one individual and they will have no voice.
T H I N K!
It is very hard to take the bottle out of mouth of a feeding baby. Why, because the baby need the food (milk).
Now think about Obama Care in the states that accepted the federal government Medicaid supplemental funding.
The citizens in those 31 states are enjoying the fruit of the system. They have better sources of medical care, more people are insured at cheaper cost to the citizens. I do not have the facts on individuals who make over $80,000 per year; however I do not believe they are the people who are unhappy. Economics are better because of the increase in employment, offices and equipment requirements.
Now look at the 19 states who foolish government turned down the federal government supplement. The citizens are paying high cost for their policies and many of their poor are doing without or if poor living on basic medicaid. There was no economic advantage or growth and more funds were required from the federal government to support the economic problems that the states faced. Some of these states have many military base that are of no value, yet are required to maintain employment.
Any thinking person should be able to see the difference; however stubborn hard headed individuals rule.
How could anyone in those states believe that Obama Care is good when they are impacted by stubborn political individuals who are denying their citizens that which is correctly theirs.
So we have a group of individuals who want Obama care gone and not enough Republican members of the congress to change without and adequate replacement. We cannot have an adequate replacement because the current system is working.
So work hard and come up with the “repeal and replace’; however when you are done you will have Obama Care with a new name Trump Care!