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Tue Elung-Jensen said, 12 months ago
I´m sure he will find a way to make it look like his idea in the end (and being for it all the way).
dtroutma
said, 12 months ago
When it was HIS plan, it was good. Which, interesting he thinks he can repeal a law on his own, just like Bush and Cheney thought. Interesting how “unitary executive” is only good for rethugnicans?
Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
said, 12 months ago
@dtroutma
Especially when said folk (“rethugnicans”, as you put it) are copying his statement word for word.
Said gents/ladies are going to hear from their constituents about that, and not in a good way!
braindead08 said, 12 months ago
Like everything else, this prescription is written on his etch-a-sketch.
Doughfoot said, 12 months ago
If elected, the GOP will repeal the ACA, first concocting a few bills of their own to accomplish its most popular provisions, which they never would have done otherwise. Of course they will scream about the mandate (a.k.a. tax on the comfortable deadbeat who doesn’t want to pay for his health insurance but still expects to be treated in an emergency): getting rid of it will help drive up the cost of health insurance, and THAT they can blame on the Democrats.
The real problem with the ACA is that it will take years for its full effects to appear, and it bugs to be worked out. And all that while the GOP can ignore its benefits (direct and indirect) and keep hammering the idea that freedom from fear (of medical bankruptcy or death by inches through untreated chronic disease) is not freedom but tyranny. The GOP with correctly crow that the ACA is not a panacea. Well, they can repeal it if they like, and won’t object in the least, as long as they replace it with something as good or better.
I myself would prefer a simpler and more elegant solution.
cdward said, 12 months ago
@Doughfoot
Agreed – but there was no chance of getting that “simpler and more elegant solution” as long as the GOP had an say in the matter. This was the best anyone could get under the circumstances.
masterskrain said, 12 months ago
“Simpler and More Elegant Solution” = “Single Payer System!”
Ms. Ima said, 12 months ago
The pharmacist will have to pull out the 2500 page healthcare bill and find why he’s not covered. It might be because he ate a hamburger a week ago, or he missed his weight training secession, or he smoked a cigarette, or he climbed a stepladder, or he……
Christopher Shea said, 12 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Weak sauce.
jack75287 said, 12 months ago
You can start at http://www.mittromney.com/issues.
ARodney said, 12 months ago
Um, RightisRight, in case you missed the news, Obamacare is constitutional. It’s not up to you to decide. It’s up to the supreme court. It’s the law of the land. Live with it, or suggest something better and get it passed. Or, if you can’t do either, be quiet. And certainly, stop telling lies about “Juan the illegal” and “commiecare.” Last I checked, communist countries don’t use private insurance companies and private hospitals to provide health care.
ninety_nine_percent said, 12 months ago
Why would anyone outside of the top 1% want to vote for Mitt? His goal is to do away with health care. Most everyone in the middle and lower class cannot afford decent health care with the income they have. Reminds me of teenagers, they refuse to follow their parents’ guidance, even if it is good for them. They would rather live in misery than agree with mom and dad.
phritzg
said, 12 months ago
There’s not a chance in hell that the health plan will be repealed, regardless of the election results. The democrats will merely have to stand in the way of anything getting done, like the republicans have done the last four years. Two can play that game.
jack75287 said, 12 months ago
@ARodney
You do know you just proved Rightisright right don’t you. Here is something I posted on a different thread I think it is germane.
Lets take you comment to the right wing. Now that government can order us to buy private property or services what issue would the political right would use this new power.
The lower and middle class has to deal with more crime then the upper class so lets order people to buy weapons, something no smaller then say a .380 semi auto. Not a big round but still kind of powerful. Then if they refuse tax them.
People need to be able to defend themselves in there own homes right.
I know I am being a little sarcastic but just about anything the Supreme Court does works both ways.
Dypak
said, 12 months ago
@Doughfoot
I’m sure President Obama would have prefered a simpler and more elegant solution. Better ones were proposed, but all shot down by fanatics in the opposition party. What we got was a mess. But it’s at least a mess that has a chance at working. If people can realize that to vote for the candidates vowing to eliminate health care is a stupid idea.