And if Charliecsi doesn’t want to live in a community with roads, schools, police and fire depts., ETC, she should not have to pay for it…at least until she needs those roads and schools and police and fire depts.
I’m really impressed with her civic virtues and her comprehension of how insurance works.
The elephant’s right. They want to take out some of the bottom cards without making the top ones fall, and they want to put their own name on the back of every card. No easy task.
Trump’s plan is to throw out all the cards, replace them with part of a crooked deck, and loudly deny anyone who says it’s not a brilliant success.
The Republicans and Democrats each have about 25% of voters registered to their party. The (40% +) majority register as independent or unaffiliated. The majority of all Americans (75% ) want a healthcare system as good as and as economical as the other OECD nations have. Neither the Republican minority nor the Democratic minority have been able to do this when it was their turn to “work for the people”.
If you’re good at math, you might notice that if the Republicans and Democrats worked together they would now represent a majority (50%) of Americans … naw, too busy blaming the other party to do something that benefits “we the people”.
The Republicans should stop pussyfooting around and just come right out and say they do not believe government should play a role in trying to address the failure of the free market to make health care available to everyone. That is really all this is about. Liberals feel it is right for the government to try and fix market failings (I.e. retirement security and health care) and conservatives do not.
The so-called ‘conservatives’ want to turn all heath care over to a small number of corporations. If people suffer and/or die as a result, they deserved it.
And this isn’t a Trump thing, it’s a REPUBLICAN thing — remember the previous Republican ‘debates’ in South Carolina. The moderator posed a question about someone dying in the street with no health insurance.
The REPUBLICAN audience erupted in cheers for several minutes. They honest-to-God LIKE the idea of people dying because they cannot afford health insurance.
@XTOPHERSD- You’re absolutely correct. The modern GOP is working for the interests of the elites & huge international corporations. Trump is putting a fake populist face on the same old policies. Wall Street is about to be unchained from the rather light restraints put on them after they crashed the world economy. They’re trying to figure out how to do to the healthcare industry what they did for the finance industry: make a few people very rich & screw the rest.
LibSmasher, re:twKKK, The KKK are Trump supporters, twclix is against the egotistical coward (Trump, if you don’t understand) and his reign of terror and destruction.
Since Congress, the President and his cabinet have a great health care plan paid for by the Government why can’t they share it with us, the ones footing the bill?
SULLY and JLOCKE, the ideas behind ACA were originally put together as a response to Hillarycare from Heritage Foundation, a RIGHT-WING think tank. This was implemented in Mass. as Romneycare. When the Repubs are asked what they plan on replacing ACA with, they either don’t know, or they list the features ACA already has. ACA slowed down premium hikes, covered people with preexisting conditions and kids until 26 on their parents policy and removed annual and lifetime caps. That last point is especially important to children who need a prosthetic replaced as they grow.
.Healthcare should never have been the profit-driven business it became in the US. Epidemics don’t spare people that have good insurance. Insurance companies reject preventive medicine, hoping people won’t need the expensive care until they are on Medicare.
Vorpal7, you do realize that John Wayne “cowarded” out to McCarthyism, a racist and anti-Semitic group headed by John Rankin, and John Wayne joined that group.
walfishj about 7 years ago
The cards of the Republican party, not Obamacare.
martens about 7 years ago
And if Charliecsi doesn’t want to live in a community with roads, schools, police and fire depts., ETC, she should not have to pay for it…at least until she needs those roads and schools and police and fire depts.
I’m really impressed with her civic virtues and her comprehension of how insurance works.
Kip W about 7 years ago
The elephant’s right. They want to take out some of the bottom cards without making the top ones fall, and they want to put their own name on the back of every card. No easy task.
Trump’s plan is to throw out all the cards, replace them with part of a crooked deck, and loudly deny anyone who says it’s not a brilliant success.
superposition about 7 years ago
The Republicans and Democrats each have about 25% of voters registered to their party. The (40% +) majority register as independent or unaffiliated. The majority of all Americans (75% ) want a healthcare system as good as and as economical as the other OECD nations have. Neither the Republican minority nor the Democratic minority have been able to do this when it was their turn to “work for the people”.
If you’re good at math, you might notice that if the Republicans and Democrats worked together they would now represent a majority (50%) of Americans … naw, too busy blaming the other party to do something that benefits “we the people”.
gdisele1 about 7 years ago
I thought they have been working on this for six years now.
XtopherSD about 7 years ago
The Republicans should stop pussyfooting around and just come right out and say they do not believe government should play a role in trying to address the failure of the free market to make health care available to everyone. That is really all this is about. Liberals feel it is right for the government to try and fix market failings (I.e. retirement security and health care) and conservatives do not.
braindead Premium Member about 7 years ago
The so-called ‘conservatives’ want to turn all heath care over to a small number of corporations. If people suffer and/or die as a result, they deserved it.
And this isn’t a Trump thing, it’s a REPUBLICAN thing — remember the previous Republican ‘debates’ in South Carolina. The moderator posed a question about someone dying in the street with no health insurance.
The REPUBLICAN audience erupted in cheers for several minutes. They honest-to-God LIKE the idea of people dying because they cannot afford health insurance.
Uncle Joe Premium Member about 7 years ago
@XTOPHERSD- You’re absolutely correct. The modern GOP is working for the interests of the elites & huge international corporations. Trump is putting a fake populist face on the same old policies. Wall Street is about to be unchained from the rather light restraints put on them after they crashed the world economy. They’re trying to figure out how to do to the healthcare industry what they did for the finance industry: make a few people very rich & screw the rest.
RAGs about 7 years ago
LibSmasher, re:twKKK, The KKK are Trump supporters, twclix is against the egotistical coward (Trump, if you don’t understand) and his reign of terror and destruction.
Dave Ferro about 7 years ago
ENOUGH! Just repeal it already! It doesn’t matter if there’s nothing to replace it! Wussies!
RAGs about 7 years ago
Since Congress, the President and his cabinet have a great health care plan paid for by the Government why can’t they share it with us, the ones footing the bill?
Addled Brain about 7 years ago
LIBSMASHER, you’re so out of touch you can’t feel a thing.
Mr. Blawt about 7 years ago
I highly doubt the Republicans have even given it that much thought. They will repeal and let people die just to prove there were death panels.
Nantucket Premium Member about 7 years ago
SULLY and JLOCKE, the ideas behind ACA were originally put together as a response to Hillarycare from Heritage Foundation, a RIGHT-WING think tank. This was implemented in Mass. as Romneycare. When the Repubs are asked what they plan on replacing ACA with, they either don’t know, or they list the features ACA already has. ACA slowed down premium hikes, covered people with preexisting conditions and kids until 26 on their parents policy and removed annual and lifetime caps. That last point is especially important to children who need a prosthetic replaced as they grow.
.Healthcare should never have been the profit-driven business it became in the US. Epidemics don’t spare people that have good insurance. Insurance companies reject preventive medicine, hoping people won’t need the expensive care until they are on Medicare.
vorpal7 about 7 years ago
set it on fire!
ahab about 7 years ago
Vorpal7, you do realize that John Wayne “cowarded” out to McCarthyism, a racist and anti-Semitic group headed by John Rankin, and John Wayne joined that group.