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?
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.
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.
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.
Re; ninety_nine_percent; I couldn’t agree with you more. In 2001 my then teenaged children asked me what I thought the “election” of B-C would mean and I told them I thought that it would mean the rape of the middle class and working poor. How accurate that prediction was anyone can judge for themeselves. How any working person, and that’s most of us, could vote Republican is baffling, and that’s too bad because we need a strong two party system. Sadly, the Republicans have gone so far to the right that we’re left with no real choice. With Romney, it’s so in your face that he’s out to further enrich the top 1% and screw everyone else, continuing the decades long trend of the huge disparity in wealth distribution, that it takes a complete lack of critical thinking, characterized by evangelicals and others who’ve been brainwashed by religion since birth to think that they won’t be voting against their own interests. This coalition of the religious right and the powerful corporate interests is almost a jihad against progressive, secular thought; a desire to return to the days when white men ruled and everyone knew their place, when old time religion and the Bible was unquestioned, and the aristocracy assured that nobody had to ever think for themselves. How can a woman in this country possibly vote Republican? There’s a question for you.
The only thing that kept The ACA from being overturned is the $5,000.00 Penalty to be levied against anyone no buying Health Insurance. -——————-Impose an annual tax of $95, or up to 1% of income, whichever is greater, on individuals who do not secure insurance; this will rise to $695, or 2.5% of income, by 2016. This is an individual limit; families have a limit of $2,085.Learn to read. Do the math. NOT $5000.
Tue Elung-Jensen almost 12 years 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 almost 12 years 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?
braindead Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Like everything else, this prescription is written on his etch-a-sketch.
Doughfoot almost 12 years 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.
Christopher Shea almost 12 years ago
Weak sauce.
ARodney almost 12 years 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 almost 12 years 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.
chromosome Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Repeal and replace… with WHAT?
joe vignone almost 12 years ago
Looks like his resume.
jeremy0203 almost 12 years ago
Re; ninety_nine_percent; I couldn’t agree with you more. In 2001 my then teenaged children asked me what I thought the “election” of B-C would mean and I told them I thought that it would mean the rape of the middle class and working poor. How accurate that prediction was anyone can judge for themeselves. How any working person, and that’s most of us, could vote Republican is baffling, and that’s too bad because we need a strong two party system. Sadly, the Republicans have gone so far to the right that we’re left with no real choice. With Romney, it’s so in your face that he’s out to further enrich the top 1% and screw everyone else, continuing the decades long trend of the huge disparity in wealth distribution, that it takes a complete lack of critical thinking, characterized by evangelicals and others who’ve been brainwashed by religion since birth to think that they won’t be voting against their own interests. This coalition of the religious right and the powerful corporate interests is almost a jihad against progressive, secular thought; a desire to return to the days when white men ruled and everyone knew their place, when old time religion and the Bible was unquestioned, and the aristocracy assured that nobody had to ever think for themselves. How can a woman in this country possibly vote Republican? There’s a question for you.
Nebulous Premium Member almost 12 years ago
The only thing that kept The ACA from being overturned is the $5,000.00 Penalty to be levied against anyone no buying Health Insurance. -——————-Impose an annual tax of $95, or up to 1% of income, whichever is greater, on individuals who do not secure insurance; this will rise to $695, or 2.5% of income, by 2016. This is an individual limit; families have a limit of $2,085.Learn to read. Do the math. NOT $5000.
pirate227 almost 12 years ago
The countdown begins for Mitt to take credit for the ACA…