Quote:We Must Apologize to the Democratic Party
Posted at 4:00 am on March 17, 2017 by Joe Cunningham
http://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2017/03/17/...tic-party/
Quote:The fact is older Americans between 50 and 64 are going to be drilled by Trumpcare and the Republicans don't have a clue just how angry 50-64 year old Americans can get when they conclude they are picking up the bill for a giant tax cut for the rich .
We owe the Democratic Party an apology. Oh, you may not like that I’m saying it, but it’s owed. A big one. Why? Because we called them liars for years and it turns out they were somehow right about something.
Ever since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Republican Party has campaigned on, championed, raised money over the cause of repealing it. “You need to give us the House of Representatives,” they told us, “and we will fix this mess.” And so, in 2010, we gave them the House.
And they said they’d do it, and they tried, and then they told us “You need to give us the Senate, too, then we can really fix it.” So, we did give them the Senate in 2014.
And they passed repeal after repeal, which was promptly vetoed with no possibility of override. “You need to give us the White House,” they said. “That’ll make it a reality.” And, in 2016, the United States gave Donald Trump the White House, and kept the Republicans in power in Congress.
The whole time leading up to this point, however, the Democrats mocked and derided the Republicans. “You have no plan to replace it, to reform the system, to fix the mess” they cried. And, we ignored them, because we had ideas, you see, and we had people pushing those ideas.
So, months after Donald Trump takes office, the Republican leadership in the House presents a bill to the American public, and the response was nothing short of disastrous.
You see, the Democrats were right all along. We, very clearly, had no plan.
That is the only way to explain presenting a bill that keeps most of the regulatory structure of Obamacare in place while removing the individual mandate and creating a new entitlement in “tax credits” and calling it “conservative health care reform.” We very clearly had no plan.
Not just no plan for “replace”, but far more importantly, and ridiculously, no actual plan for actual repeal.
What happened? We had people in Congress who presented bills that called for the very things we wanted. We had entire books written by conservatives on what we needed. We have the ideas, but we have no plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
I get the situation the GOP was in. They’re in power now. They have a failing health care system that has to be taken care of, and if they just leave it to rot, then all the people hurt will blame them. But, if they try to make any changes and a person so much as sneezes, then they will take the blame for all the health-related woes of the American people.
So, they took the higher road and tried to fix it. But, they had no plan. Just some ideas they rubbed a glue stick on and pasted onto a bill.
That’s not how you are going to fix this, and it’s insane to try. What we have presented before us will not work, and it needs to be heavily amended (something Republican leadership is slowly coming to admit) if it has any chance. But, you cannot simply “amend” the Affordable Care Act. You ran on repeal and replace, and you should repeal and replace.
But, the Democrats were right all along. Republicans ultimately didn’t have a plan. And it shows. The question now is how the Republicans recover from this botched bill. Is there plan for dealing with no plan?
Can they come up with one?
We better hope so. They better hope so, too.
In the meantime, Dems, this is the one time we’re sorry for saying “you lie.”
ronbyers
It is becoming evident that a lot of the Republican base is catching on to the absolute fact that the Republican congressional leadership is attacking them with their Obamacare replacement bill and they don't like it one little bit.
The fact is older Americans between 50 and 64 are going to be drilled by Trumpcare and the Republicans don't have a clue just how angry 50-64 year old Americans can get when they conclude they are picking up the bill for a giant tax cut for the rich.
•Dana Pico • 14 hours ago
There are only three possibilities:
1 - The federal government will guarantee access to health care via some form of a single-payer plan;
2 - The federal government will guarantee access to health care through some form of the private insurance system, which is how Obysmalcare is structured; or
3 - The federal government will not guarantee access to health care, even if that means some people suffer more or die earlier due to the lack.
Me? I'm an [insert slang term for the rectum here] and don't want the government to guarantee access to people who cannot or will not pay for health insurance, and if they suffer more or die earlier, that's just fine with me. But very few other Republicans are willing to admit that, especially Republican congressmen!
If the third option is taken off the table, then all we have is single-payer or something not all that unlike Obaminablecare. The Republicans are torn between keeping their promises and not throwing a bunch of people off insurance, and have no flaming way to get out of it.
•davisconservative • 2 days ago
The fundamental problem here is that OCare is based of RomneyCare which in turn was the idea of Heritage Foundation. Now it is impossible for Heritage to come up with its own credible "helpful" plan that has to be anti its own RomneyCare plan. THis is the reason why our "plans" are merely OCare fixes but not repeal and replace.
The conservative base, in all its stupidity, depends on talk show hosts for analysis on anything. This is where the lying part comes from. The OCare plan was driven primarily by hate of Obama IMO as opposed to driven by hate against the Heritage foundation
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