Posted on 03/24/2017 4:30:45 AM PDT by davikkm
Can you guarantee that RATs and RINO’s won’t join forces to
continue funding Obamacare? How are you so sure it will collapse?
We already know enough about it to know that it is just a horrible rearranging of Obamacare. But with coverage for illegals, removing the protection for christian healthcare ministries, and creating a massive, new entitlement. What’s not to hate about it?
It is not the business of the president or congress to provide us with our healthcare plans!
I’m sympathetic to the reasoning.
Now is certainly the time.
Problem is, the GOP seem bizarrely blind-sided by the opportunity to do what they’ve been allegedly trying to do for 8 years. Their solution is to replace what they don’t want with something that they seem to not want and their voters didn’t want. Result will be the Right owning something they didn’t want and which the Left can now beat them senseless with.
What Trump CAN single-handedly do is end the mandate, and end funding (or reduce funding to starve-the-beast levels), accelerating Obamacare’s self-immolation. Let it die, forcing Congress to enact expedient solutions we do want: end the prohibition on interstate commerce, enact tort reform, solve the systemic pre-existing-condition problem.
If RyanCare passes, we own it.
And the Left will MAKE us own it, and ensure its failure, for 4 years.
Where does the government money come from to pay the $80,000 per year for ADVANTAGE’ SENIORS CARE?
Is this another of those programs creating those ‘sucking sounds’ coming out of Social Security or Medicare?
“How are you so sure it will collapse?”
It was meant to. The whole point is that Obamacare is crumbling as we speak. Exchanges are being abandoned. Premiums are viciously expensive. It’s not supposed to be sustainable. It was _designed_ to fail, with the intention of being replaced by Single Payer. Let it die.
What Trump can and should do - and can do with a simply memo or Executive Order to Sessions - is to direct the enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act WRT the entire medical industry. The central problem is NOT insurance that is too expensive (though having more competition will certainly help a LOT), it is that the services that are being insured are too expensive, and they are that way because of price-fixing. You can literally fly to Japan, get an MRI for $200, and then fly back for less money than it takes to get an MRI done here - and, no, they’re not using out-dated technology. The simple fact is that no other industry could get away with what drug makers, hospitals, doctors and clinics do literally every day. 10 people can walk into a hospital with the exact same condition, stay there for the exact same amount of time and receive the exact type and level of service, and you’ll end up with 10 different amounts billed because of ... price-fixing (based on how much they can extract from someone’s insurance company).
Oh, and the Republican Party is once again proving that it is the Stupid Party. I’d like to smack them upside the head, just for putting in Ryan and the Turtle. Morons!
“What Trump can and should do ... is to direct the enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act WRT the entire medical industry.”
THIS.
OH SO VERY THIS.
The ‘Weak” Tea Party Express.
You have to read this whole article. What a joke. Although NYTimes is fake news, this seems to fit emerging picture of this guy. People like him are why we are getting RINO Care. NYTimes cites emails where they wanted to high jack the tea party to raise PAC money. “Unlike many of the newly energized outsiders who have embraced Tea Party ideals, Mr. Russo, 63, is a longtime Republican operative who got his start as an aide to Ronald Reagan and later raised money and managed media strategy for a string of other politicians, including former Gov. George E. Pataki of New York. His history and spending practices have prompted some former employees and other Tea Party activists to question whether he is committed to, or merely exploiting, their cause.
Mr. Russo’s group, based in California, is now the single biggest independent supporter of Tea Party candidates, raising more than $5.2 million in donations since January 2009, according to federal records. But at least $3 million of that total has since been paid to Mr. Russo’s political consulting firm or to one controlled by his wife, according to federal records.
While most of that money passed through the firms to cover advertising and other expenses, that kind of self-dealing raises red flags about possible lax oversight and excessive fees for the firms, campaign finance experts said.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/us/politics/19russo.html
You have to read this whole article. What a joke. Although NYTimes is fake news, this seems to fit emerging picture of this guy. People like him are why we are getting RINO Care. NYTimes cites emails where they wanted to high jack the tea party to raise PAC money. “Unlike many of the newly energized outsiders who have embraced Tea Party ideals, Mr. Russo, 63, is a longtime Republican operative who got his start as an aide to Ronald Reagan and later raised money and managed media strategy for a string of other politicians, including former Gov. George E. Pataki of New York. His history and spending practices have prompted some former employees and other Tea Party activists to question whether he is committed to, or merely exploiting, their cause.
Mr. Russo’s group, based in California, is now the single biggest independent supporter of Tea Party candidates, raising more than $5.2 million in donations since January 2009, according to federal records. But at least $3 million of that total has since been paid to Mr. Russo’s political consulting firm or to one controlled by his wife, according to federal records.
While most of that money passed through the firms to cover advertising and other expenses, that kind of self-dealing raises red flags about possible lax oversight and excessive fees for the firms, campaign finance experts said.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/us/politics/19russo.html
If they had passed todays bill that was it, no other bills would follow to repeal OC.
There were 2 more phases that would fix the issues.
We will never know if that was for real or just lies.
But what we do know is Obamacare is here for the foreseeable future.
As soon as I found out Sal Russo was the tea party express, I ran for the hills. I guess I wasn’t wrong 7 years ago.
It was added just a few days ago.. so I think their plan was to force veterans to the VA Gulag. It’s a reminder that trump and the other heavy hitters for this bill targeted veterans while coddling illegals. Standing before a Medal of Honor recipient, while stabbing veterans in the back.. what a deal!
I love that Obamacare is here for the foreseeable future.
People need to get a really good taste of socialism, as Trump said, “soon democrats will be begging to repeal ObamaCare.
This will destroy the Democrat Party and Obama.
REPEAL and let the free market do its job.
There is ZERO need for the government to be involved in our healthcare.
Think u like it now.
You will love it when RINO’s and RAT’s vote to continue funding it.
Rats sat on the bench this time, but will vote to continue funding(not repealing) Obamacare along with a 100 GOP moderates when collapse
is near.
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