The republican Attorneys General of 20 republican states are pursuing the total destruction of all facets of the Affordable Care Act and have, to this point, been successful. They have now finished arguing their case before the Court of Appeals, and the decision is expected within months. In all likelihood it will reach the Supreme Court about the time the 2020 campaigns start in earnest, and any democrat that cares to will be able to argue that their republican opponents are trying to deny medical coverage to over 20,000,000 Americans, because that’s exactly what republicans are doing.
And republicans have no answer to the accusation because they have no replacement for the A.C.A. and never have had!
And many of their constituents are beneficiaries of Medicaid expansion. I kind of hope they do repeal it and when those goobers realize the despised Obamacare is the ACA are they going to be pissed!
Our broken binary opposing party system — with zero enforced incentive to encourage and compromise and cooperation — is accomplishing a mission of making the world’s wealthiest nation into the most inefficient, wasteful, with the greatest wealth inequity. I’m not sure that is what “we the people” really want, but they too seem to more preoccupied with partisan division over mutually beneficial cooperation, so it’s hard to tell.
The ‘Cons strategy to kill Affordable Care just sounds better than ’just let them die if they don’t have health insurance through their jobs and can’t afford decent private insurance’. Not a good campaign slogan.
The Repubs know that we currently have a very inefficient form of single payer wherein those who can not afford health care go to the emergency room for triage care. These costs are then passed on to those of us who have insurance. The ACA is a market based system that works toward getting a larger pool of people paying whatever they can and there-by having insurance so that they don’t have to wait until their health problems justify a trip to the E.R. After doing away with the A.C.A look for the Repugs to start dismantling the requirement that hospitals treat all who come to them, no matter their ability to pay. Such is simply the divine punishment for those too lazy to be rich.
In the 2016 campaign, Trump touted a “plan” that was bigger and better than “Obamacare.” Obviously, there was no such plan. In two years of GOP controlled Senate and House, the GOB could produce no plan that would pass muster even within their own party. They invoked the “nuclear option,” so they wouldn’t need a single democrat’s vote in either house, and they still couldn’t get anything passed. Three tries, three failures. Then the president, who so famously stated “who knew health care was so complicated,” said they’d put it off until 2020. So they have nothing to replace the ACA (aka Obamacare) with, but they’ll just strip millions of the coverage they do have. Not themselves, of course.
wellis1947 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The republican Attorneys General of 20 republican states are pursuing the total destruction of all facets of the Affordable Care Act and have, to this point, been successful. They have now finished arguing their case before the Court of Appeals, and the decision is expected within months. In all likelihood it will reach the Supreme Court about the time the 2020 campaigns start in earnest, and any democrat that cares to will be able to argue that their republican opponents are trying to deny medical coverage to over 20,000,000 Americans, because that’s exactly what republicans are doing.
And republicans have no answer to the accusation because they have no replacement for the A.C.A. and never have had!
amethyst52 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
And many of their constituents are beneficiaries of Medicaid expansion. I kind of hope they do repeal it and when those goobers realize the despised Obamacare is the ACA are they going to be pissed!
rekam Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Bravo to both of you!
superposition almost 5 years ago
Our broken binary opposing party system — with zero enforced incentive to encourage and compromise and cooperation — is accomplishing a mission of making the world’s wealthiest nation into the most inefficient, wasteful, with the greatest wealth inequity. I’m not sure that is what “we the people” really want, but they too seem to more preoccupied with partisan division over mutually beneficial cooperation, so it’s hard to tell.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Pro Life? Yeah, Right? Pro MONEY! Love and worship that MONEY!
mourdac Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The ‘Cons strategy to kill Affordable Care just sounds better than ’just let them die if they don’t have health insurance through their jobs and can’t afford decent private insurance’. Not a good campaign slogan.
gigagrouch almost 5 years ago
Cui bono?
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Removing the public’s health care is their idea of governance.
Plumb.Bob Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The Repubs know that we currently have a very inefficient form of single payer wherein those who can not afford health care go to the emergency room for triage care. These costs are then passed on to those of us who have insurance. The ACA is a market based system that works toward getting a larger pool of people paying whatever they can and there-by having insurance so that they don’t have to wait until their health problems justify a trip to the E.R. After doing away with the A.C.A look for the Repugs to start dismantling the requirement that hospitals treat all who come to them, no matter their ability to pay. Such is simply the divine punishment for those too lazy to be rich.
Radish the wordsmith almost 5 years ago
All racist Republicans want to do is destroy anything that Obama touched.
Bookworm almost 5 years ago
In the 2016 campaign, Trump touted a “plan” that was bigger and better than “Obamacare.” Obviously, there was no such plan. In two years of GOP controlled Senate and House, the GOB could produce no plan that would pass muster even within their own party. They invoked the “nuclear option,” so they wouldn’t need a single democrat’s vote in either house, and they still couldn’t get anything passed. Three tries, three failures. Then the president, who so famously stated “who knew health care was so complicated,” said they’d put it off until 2020. So they have nothing to replace the ACA (aka Obamacare) with, but they’ll just strip millions of the coverage they do have. Not themselves, of course.
martens almost 5 years ago
Haven’t seen Masterskrain around here in the last few days. This is the kind of ’toon he usually comments on. Did he get mod-zapped?
bakana almost 5 years ago
The problem with the GOP’s act is that they don’t have a Finale.
Or, any Theme Music to spice it up.
Nantucket Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The Heritage Foundation (think tank) came up with “the mandate”. At that time, they and the Repubs called it “personal responsibility”.
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
WHY do GOP politicians (and voters) hate effective, inexpensive, universally available healthcare? It makes no sense at all to me.