They can’t repeal it. They can’t replace it. All they can do, in typical Congressional fashion, is pour more money into it.
They didn’t strike out, oh swampy IBD, they sat there and refused to swing and took strike three like the 1919 Blacksox.
Subsidizing Failure ... In Government, it’s not a failure, it’s underfunded (P.J. O’Rourke)
Trump needs one more SCOTUS appointment to make certain that a new Obamacare case will end by declaring it unconstitutional.
That is how he will kill it off.... and Roberts won’t be able to stop it.
'Obamacare was doing just fine until the Republicans made changes. They broke it.'
Way to go, guys. If I didn't have to live with the consequences of Republican inaction and stupidity, I'd find it amusing. Believe me -- I'm not laughing...
“One of the Republicans who has fallen into the bipartisanship trap is Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who runs the Health Committee. He has announced that he is working behind closed doors with the Democrats to “stabilize the insurance market.” This is a euphemism for a taxpayer funded bail out.”
What’s wrong with Tennessee that they have two feckless turds as Senators? Corker “The Dwarf” and Lamar are both a disgrace.
My take is working people are paying twice...once in their paycheck via Medicare and again as a penalty. Double taxation by any measure.
It's pretty obvious that the insurance companies have congress in their hip pockets, and a government bailout is one of the things they've been aiming for.
Here is the “unintentional consequence” (which when understood one realizes it was not unintentional at all, just implicit). Some years back (10) I spent some time working in a metropolitan ER with other docs. 50 or so beds. After a few weeks I asked one of the docs, “What’s up with you guys sending everyone home with Dilaudid?” I have always been very careful with narcotic prescriptions as I never wanted any questions from the DEA or State Board. The guy took me aside and said, “Look, I have to worry about my ‘patient evaluations’. If these people go home po’d that they didn’t get some Dilaudid or OxyContin as a ‘goodbye gift’ they will file a complaint.”
My response was “muh ethics, man”. His was take your ethics and consider finding a new job, the expense of relocation or just handing out Percs like candy. He chose to be a candy man. I didn’t. He is still making $250K per year. I ain’t.
Add to this that the social workers in the ER know how to sign up “the pour” for social benefits so the Hospital can get reimbursed. Duh, it’s their JOB. So when homeless, illegal, wtf ever signs in to the ER for their hangnail they get signed up for free social benefits (uh, 0bamacare) and leave with reward, 20 or 30 Dilaudid in their hot little hand. Not a Rx but an actual bottle full of pills.
But we are expected to believe this socially engineered Rube Goldberg gas ovens tier device was an “unintended consequence”. Really?
Sorry. I have been lurking too much 4chan.
And think about this, now we have leftwards trying to hang the blame for an “opioids crisis” on drug companies. But 0bamacare socially engineered to reward “the pour” for flocking to ERs to be signed up for 0bamacare with, uh, OxyContin. Insurance companies had to know but realized “astronomical profits with no downside”. A bigger taxpayer funded guarantee than Fannie and Freddie. And now the GOP is gonna let them have a “second scoop”. Incredible.
If it reaches Trump’s desk he will sign it.
I disagree. The RINOs that betrayed our trust will be tossed out and The 60+ Republican 2018 Senate will repeal it.
The Republican party MUST be destroyed. They have shown themselves to be flat out frauds whose agenda is no different than Democrats.