Posted on 03/27/2015 5:10:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Republicans are facing a 16 million person problem.
With the Obama administration announcing this month that some 16 million people have obtained health insurance since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans' intense focus on completely repealing the law is increasingly looking unrealistic.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
they don't believe we'll ship 'em back.
Will we?
Seriously, it’s almost 3,000 pages of crap! Are these morons saying we can’t do better than that?
Thanks coach Mora.
5.56mm
It is roughly 5%, what about the other 95%??
They will be dealt with.
Harshly.
The 16 million (if that number is correct) could find much cheaper health insurance in a private competitive market that allows purchase across state lines. Throw in tort reform and it even looks better. Those who have pre-existing conditions could be set up in a massive risk plan that would cost tons less than Obamacare. And don’t forget the HSA plans that are far greater than anything the government, especially liberals, could come up with.
I said the day the US Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare thanks to Roberts re-writing it (un-Constitutional, Court's can't re-write legislation!) that there was no way the US Supreme Court would EVER un-do ObamaCare once the "benefits stopped flowing."
For the same reason the US Supreme Court refused to repeal Social Security, "once the benefits started flowing."
Mark this post, Obamacare isn't going anywhere via the US Supreme Court. Congress has to repeal it as a tax. Likelihood of that ever happening: Zero.
most of the 16 million had other insurance and were forced into obamacare. It can be repealed; the Republicans just have to put a viable alternative in place before they repeal it. IMHO, all of these votes to repeal are worthless unless they are promoting a replacement and a plan to implement
Just for grins, I plugged in the required data to see if I would qualify for one of the “affordable” plans. Affordable my rosy red cheeks. Ain’t nothin’ affordable about it. In my situation, $800+/mth. With crappy huge deductibles for a silver plan with crappy benefits. Of course I in no way could get any govt supplemental hep. Guess I don’t want any either. LUTFA!
Correction: “Once the benefits START flowing.”
Once you log onto their website they sign you up whether you want it or not. Expect a bill soon.
If you like your 0bamacare you can keep your 0bamacare, but no more mandates. Except for bath house Barry.
Hardly anyone will keep it.
The repeal debate is no more over than the debate on man-made “climate change”.
If the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies as unconstitutional then how can Congress pass a law extending those unconstitutional subsidies for another 18 months?
5% of the population are using a MANDATORY system that NO ONE wants
In your dreams, NBC news.
Many of the 16 million people would love to scrap Obamacare and opt in to having 10 or more insurance companies vying for their money in competition.
Something like 26 or 27 states have tort reform. Can you point to anything that indicates health care premiums in those states have gone down, or increased at a slower rate than non-tort reform states?
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