Lalo Alcaraz for September 27, 2017

Ain’t it the TRUTH!!

The GOP is dead set to kill.

In the next elections, the GOP will be erased from the history books.

If the CONGRESS had spent the last 7 years trying to REPAIR ACA we would now have a good health care bill.

^If McConnell and Co. had had any talent for constructive activity, it would have been a good bill from the start. Unfortunately, they are virtuosos at obstruction, not construction, as shown by the past 7 years.

@trendsetter you are so right!!! You know of course that Obama had to adopt Mitt Romney’s health-care plan because of the total opposition to his own single payer plan. So he adopted and adapted Mitt Romney’s plan as the best he could go with at the time, figuring that once that went through it could be improved upon. Of course after being labeled Obamacare, the Republicans became dead set against….. it even though it was one of their own that proposed it. Ironic isn’t it?

And of course, at one of the worse points in the “Great Recession”, putting that many middlemen out of work in the healthcare industry…

might not have been the best game-plan ever….

I keep reading (most recently from BCR131) that the Affordable Care Act was never meant to be anything other than a big money grab by the insurance companies and this was because President Obama was in the pocket of “the monied interests”. The very size of the A.C.A. precluded any possibility of it being totally ‘workable’ from the outset. This is the case for EVERY bill of this size and complexity and always HAS BEEN. In instances like this, Congress passes the bill, waits, evaluates the bill and then proceeds to adjust and repair any problems that expose themselves. This did NOT occur this time – even before the A.C.A. was completed and passed (without any ‘help’ from Repubs though they were repeatedly invited to join in with suggestions). Healthcare could be fixed in America, but republicans are constitutionally unable to accept providing ANY kind of help to anyone who can’t pay for it! It’s part of their, “I’ve got mine, Jack; screw you!” philosophy.

WELLIS1947, Republican suggestions were included in the final ACA bill – Congress having to use exchanges was proposed by Grassley – he thought it would be a “poison pill” but the Dems agreed to it. And you are absolutely correct in that there could not be a direct switch to single payer as it involves so much of the economy. Large projects are never implemented in “final” state – it is impossible to predict every possible glitch and incremental changes are easier for people to accept. The public changed their opinions of ACA once the rules kicked in about covering pre-existing conditions, eliminating caps on coverage and coverage for colonoscopies, mammograms and birth control. Now 73% of the people want issues fixed – they don;t want “repeal and replace”, especially not the continually worse versions that the Repubs are presenting.

Lindsey Graham is trying to use the heavily-edited, debunked videos of Planned Parenthood to try to excuse funding PP when a constituent told him she could have children because of PP care when she had ovarian cysts and other reproductive issues. Considering his recent moments of clarity when he has criticized Trump, I don’t believe he is that ignorant, I think he is that heartless.

Once you get hooked they’ll cut you off and you’ll turn to street libertarians.

Republicans are like placebos, they promise everything and deliver nothing.

“They” will make you buy a month’s supply but you will die after taking the first pill! Nice!