Posted on 07/17/2013 5:44:34 AM PDT by kimtom
Conservatives think the law is unraveling. But implementing the Affordable Care Act is going to be a huge success.
Having failed to beat the Affordable Care Act in Congress, in the courts, or at the ballot box last November, conservative opponents have one last chance to beat it on the field of reality. Republicans see the delayed implementation of the law’s poorly designed employer responsibility provisions as a sign that the law is fundamentally unworkable and will unravel, as long as conservatives keep up the fight. The White House, not surprisingly, disagrees. At a briefing I attended last week, senior administration officials painted an upbeat view of the implementation process and expressed eagerness to shift the focus off the political controversy and onto how the law will have concrete impacts on citizens’ lives.
In the short term, I doubt they’ll get their wish. Putting something as big as Obamacare into practice is bound to hit snags. Between conservatives keen to exaggerate problems......
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The plan states that you, take your money that you make, and buy coverage and keep it. Whether you live in Juneau AK and move to Miami Fl, you keep it. That is plan. It is not difficult to understand. By allowing companies to compete, the price for the coverage is lowered by free market completion. It is that simple.
One plan actually gave people a tax credit, not a deduction, a tax credit for buying a plan.
Gee, CNN, you glanced at that plan for less than 5 minutes at best. That’s about what your fellow Democrats also gave the plan.
I usually agree with you about bringing jobs back to America. But a government health care plan for everyone is downright socialist, and our government is already in the hole 16 trillion bucks. The Eurotrash countries can’t even afford what they do, although they won’t admit it (every single one of them is in debt to their eyeballs also). We couldn’t afford it even if it was a good idea, which it isn’t. Do you really want the same government that lies about nearly everything, spies on you, ran by crooks to benefit themselves to be in charge of health care in this country? Maybe, as you assert, they already are, but if so, would the current mess not be evidence that their involvement needs to be terminated?
An illustration is needed as to why a bad plan is not the better option:
This is why I don’t see the value in opposing ObamaHitler on healthcareinvading Poland. At present we do not have a meaningful opposing plan to improve the German economy. ObamaHitler does. His plan is a mess, but it was passed and it is a plan.
This is why I don’t see the value in opposing ObamaBrezhnev on healthcarethe proposed nuclear plants at Chernobyl. At present we do not have a meaningful opposing plan to generate electricity. ObamaBrezhnev does. His plan is a mess, but it was passed and it is a plan.
If you think the imposition of totalitarian socialism and drastically increasing centralized authority is worth it, then the Founding Fathers sacraficed it all for nothing.
You are on the wrong discussion board.
The laws of Economics are not changeable, regardless of how many pages of regulations are issued....
Obamacare IS the GOP alternative.
Most dems prefer single payer to the individual mandate and are unhappy that Obama, who supported single payer when he was in the Senate, would support the individual mandate that came out of the Heritage Foundation and was implemented by a GOP gov in Mass.
A less bad bill is not an alternative.
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