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To: ConstantSkeptic
"Pardon me if I’m not jumping on the wagon to defund Obamacare."

Obamacare forces people to buy health insurance.
You do not want Obamacare defunded.
Ergo, you want to force people to buy health insurance.

32 posted on 09/08/2013 1:02:57 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Fantasy Short Story Collection is out!)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Congratulations!

Not only have you completely missed my point, but you've perfectly illustrated the problem Republicans are going to have trying to repeal Obamacare.

Liberals want everyone to believe that Obamacare is the panacea to the health care problems in the United States.

Conservatives, on the other hand, want everyone to believe that Obamacare is evil and must be wiped off the face of the earth.

My point was that, like many complex bills, Obamacare contains a mix of features. Unfortunately for the Republicans trying to repeal Obamacare, not every individual feature is evil. And for many citizens, whether they are liberals or conservatives, they may find features which will provide significant savings for them without any downside for them personally. I'm in that group where, personally, Obamacare seems to provide significant savings to me while not forcing me to do anything I wouldn't do anyway. So, personally, do I want the whole bill repealed? That would not be in my financial interest.

A case can be made that the individual mandate so taints the bill that that is cause in itself for the bill to be repealed. I'm being pragmatic. Right now it appears the Obamacare will save my family $10,000/year. A lot of conservative families will be performing the same math and coming to a similar result.

So no, for me the bill is not 100% evil. For many conservatives, they will also decide that Obamacare is not 100% evil. That is why I say the Conservatives will more likely be successful by trying to join with at least some Democrats to modify Obamacare than they will be in their efforts to repeal it.

And if you want to continue with your view that Obamacare is evil, evil, evil, well, go right ahead. I'm done with this discussion.

33 posted on 09/09/2013 9:40:55 AM PDT by ConstantSkeptic (Be careful about preconceptions)
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