Posted on 03/15/2017 12:53:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
While Republicans fight internally about their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Democrats are heckling from the sidelines -- ridiculing the GOP's disunity, and making apocalyptic claims about what the Republican plan might do. What they're not doing is offering any constructive ideas on how to alleviate the widespread and worsening pain inflicted upon American consumers by the failed, partisan healthcare scheme they lied about and rammed through during President Obama's first term. As we've noted before, Democrats don't have any good answers for Obamacare's millions of victims, who substantially outnumber the success stories they're so eagerly showcasing these days. Incidentally, President Trump was smart to invite real people who've been hurt by the failing law to the White House for a listening session; Republicans would be wise to keep these people front and center throughout this debate. But Democrats have no good answers because there are none. They passed a bad law that isn't working, and the "fixes" they occasionally mutter about are politically unviable, stale and recycled -- or they double down with even heavier-handed government coercion and intervention. Democrats' dearth of meaningful ideas in the face of the terrible mess for which they're exclusively responsible has gone mostly unnoticed in the press coverage of the current fight. But not entirely unnoticed. Here are two CNN personalities making an obvious point that should be a bigger element of the story:
Chris Cuomo on Healthcare Debate: 'I Did Not Hear Better Ideas Coming Out of the Democrats' https://t.co/YVCJKw6lgE (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/siQ8Hk5PXb— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 9, 2017
Quite right. I understand the politics of Democrats lining up against the reconciliation bill. But if a version of it eventually passes, as we raised earlier, would every Senate Democrat continue to stand in the way of important fixes to the healthcare market that can't be tacked onto filibuster-proof budgetary legislation? That's unclear. I'll leave you with Bernie Sanders (ahem, Captain "Fair Share") going full demagogue about how the GOP plan would kill a bunch of people by upending much of Obamacare:
Except the data demonstrates that Obamacare isn't saving lives in the aggregate. US mortality rates stopped improving after the law's passage (faring worse in states that expanded Medicaid), and in 2015, US life expectancy actually dropped for the first time in decades. Obamacare was hardly a silver bullet. And now seems like as good a time as any to once again repeat a crucial truth in this whole debate: Coverage is not the same thing as access to care.
Sanders: A Whole Lot Of People Will Die If ObamaCare Is Repealed
If the Republicans mess with Obamacare, they own it. If anyone who had medical coverage loses coverage and dies, for whatever reason, it will be the Republicans fault 24/7 via the media propaganda machine.
Republicans should not touch Obamacare unless Democrats get on board. Better to let it crash and burn.
I would say they are not providing any solutions to anything.
Why should they? Ryan and the GOPe are doing the heavy lifting for them. Nationalized socialized healthcare here we come.
Repeal or bust!
The ACA was designed for failure. Using Cloward-Piven techniques, it was to drive up costs, create confusion, and overwhelm the system.
The law was unlawfully passed using the "deeming and scheming" method. It took an activist SCOTUS to "fix" the non-lawful market mandate into a phony tax to bring it back into legality....barely.
Hillary was to be the clean-up batter in this ploy. Barry set the deck, and Hillary was supposed to get elected. She would immediately morph the "troubled" ACA into socialized medicine/single payer and save the day by "fixing it".
Trump ruined that plan by winning, supported by voters who had a clue that the ACA was a lie and a failure.
Democrats are not about solutions.
They are about managing problems.
And using the threat of crises to scare people into
voting for them.
They want Obamacare and nothing else
Until it fails and they can implement government care
.....and then they cut off his microphone feed.
You’ve hit it on the head. People who are stating hurry up repeal, get rid of it, etc. You can expect MSM to put out a 24 hour news cycle of death and destruction. Then the same posters attacking Trump here will be reposting stories from WAPO, Slimes, etc. ‘oh how unfair’ blah, blah, blah. Trump is proceeding cautiously as he should. Congress will or will not own this but this becomes an historical failure owned in no small part to the GOPe and weak candidates for president.
A Whole Lot Of People Will Die If ObamaCare Is NOT Repealed................
To offer solutions would be tantamount to admitting that what they set up is a failure.
And that ain’t gonna happen.
Agree. Let ObamaCare fail and burn.
the problem is that when it crashes and burns, we’ll bet socialized medicine.
Collectivists create fat inefficient programs and then fall into lethargy.
Solutions for them are addressed through bureaucracy.
Further thinking is not required.
The Republicans have to seize this.
Signed: your Democratic Party representative.
They can’t get elected with illegals, activists, freaks and prisoners. There are not enough votes.
I was watching a dem operative on Fox discussing Obamacare. When queried what was the Dem solution to save Obamacare from its current death spiral, his answer was “raise subsidies”
at the taxpayer expense. Basically make the free pony freer.
Yup. That was the thinly dishuised plan from day 1.
"We are from the government and here to save you from the insurance and pharma industry...."
Have Democrats offered any solutions to anything?
They are all sticking to the sinking ship
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