Posted on 06/24/2015 2:46:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Obamacare could put Republicans in a bind in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election if the U.S. Supreme Court in the next week upends part of the law designed to make healthcare accessible to all Americans, leaving millions to fend for themselves for health insurance.
Presidential battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina will be among the states with residents who lose their subsidies, heightening the political impact.
Republicans who have long fought the law could begin to look hard-hearted and ineffectual if they ignore what is certain to be an explosion of stories about Americans losing health insurance.
And by virtue of their roles in Congress, Republican presidential contenders Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, all U.S. senators, would be smack in the middle of the political battle.
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Up is down. Down is up. The media is corrupt and the GOP leadership is pathetic.
that’s what I was thinking. It’s interesting that the problems always fall on the shoulders of the Republicans.
-PJ
The idiots had a chance to do something about it for years instead of letting it get entrenched and catering to the insurance industry. Remember, “Its the law of the land”.
Now they are going to wear it and let the media beat them over the head with any fallout.
Then they will clamor to reinstate it.
Typical Republican strategy.
Shove it Whitesides. With a name like that you should be banned from life since you obviously inspire idiots racists to kill people! /s
True, and yet anyone with any common sense can know that no one worried about their “Obama Care” subsidy is going to ever vote for any Republican under any circumstance.
It is only a problem if they take any of it seriously. They need to stand up, grow some gonads, flip off the democrats, media, and other interests telling them we didn’t vote for your pathetically bad bill. The “women and children hardest hit” meme needs to be ignored. Demand that the democrats figure it out and/or apologize to those who supposedly lose coverage for their gross incompetence.
Yeah, I know, most of the GOP are worthless douchbags so that won’t happen.
Obamacare is headed towards actuarial death spiral next year. Pretty hard to keep spinning this as a Dem success. Supremes would be doing Dems a favor to kill it.
Obamacare could create quandary for Republicans before 2016 election
BUT ONLY republicans that THINK the 2016 election will BE HONEST... DUUgh..
The other republicans are not fooled at all..
Some republicans are NOT FOR; THIS REPUBLIC...
They have “democracy” delusions.. i.e. Mob rule by mobsters
There won’t be any quandry, Republicans will RUSH to make whole, probably offering Federal subsidies to replace the state ones if they are found invalid. And it will fly through Congress with token opposition from those who know it’s going to pass overwhelmingly and vote no to make political points. Of course Obama will happily sign it.
It will be the budget bills all over again.
The Republicans will offer a bill to extend the subsidies for a year and end the employer and individual mandates. The Democrats will scream bloody murder and demand a “clean bill” that only extends the subsidies. The Republicans will cave and that will be that.
Bonehead Boehner and Mitch “turtle face” McDumbo have no gonads. They are “transitioning” into democrats.
Obamatrade will do that. The pain of Obamacare will pale in comparison.
I wouldn’t be surprised if all the writers at Reuters had bad backs since they spend so much time carrying the Democrats water.
“One man in the right is a majority.” Henry David Thoreau, Democrat poster boy
So we would have a party in control of both houses of Congress, and furthermore which had nothing to do with excreting this thing upon the productive half of the country—not a single Republican senator voted for it—but yeah, you’re right:
Many in the GOP will fold like card tables once the MSM starts shouting `J’ accuse!’.
That’s all this is—preemptive smearing by Rooters.
I’ve made it clear to my rep that if he doesn’t do all he can to reverse a Democrat law that penalizes taxpayers who can’t afford health insurance in order to “subsidize” (subsidize: euphemism for “taking some more of your pie so useless eaters can have things you don’t have”) Democrat voters, I’m going to do all I can to see him lugered.
If they can’t or won’t take care of citizens, what good is the GOP?
Boehner owns millions of dollars worth of healthcare stock he bought or was given back in Dec 2009.
He will repeal obamacare about the same time we hear the true story and there are criminal convictions about Benghazi.
-PJ
what good would that do?
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