Not angry at anyone but the Republicans today.
But the Republicans are only doing what is right for them. Before Trump was sworn in I argued that the arithmetic of healthcare was such that the only course for the Republicans was to let Obama care implode.
Obama care created tens of millions of new dependence paid for by a massive transfer of wealth directly from more wealthy people and indirectly by stacking up huge deficits to be paid for by future generations. To undo that the choice was either to cut benefits, tax more, increase healthcare premiums, cut coverage, or increase the national debt. Evidently, the Republicans have chosen a combination of some of the above in a package that camouflages what they are doing as best they can.
They have chosen this because our society has been conditioned to expect entitlements. Any politician who realistically attacks entitlements knows he will be facing a tidal wave of opposition in the next election and he will be maligned in the meantime for his pains in the press as callously indifferent to the helpless and in the pay of some evil business. Ultimately, he knows real reform of entitlements has no realistic political chance of succeeding. Politicians are not known to be martyrs.
Any Republican politician says to himself, we were put into this position by the leadership of the party when everybody knew that if Obama care took hold, as it has, entitlements mentality would take hold as well. Trump was a great contributor to this dilemma by his rhetoric in the campaign promising repeal and promising the moon by reform but he did get one thing right after he was sworn in, the Republicans are bailing the Democrats out and taking all the blame for the reform of Obama care onto their own shoulders simply by taking charge of the reform. That is foolish.
Obama care is on its way to imploding if not shored up or reformed. Let it go, then craft new legislation which does not take coverage away, does not increase taxes or premiums, does not add to the national debt etc. because it is not being compared to Obama care. It is a new healthcare approach rising phoenix-like from the ashes of a fully discredited and disintegrated Obama care. Let the blame for the disintegration fall on the Democrats because they will have resisted any attempts at a conservative reform which should be done in a selective manner on selected issues which the Democrats must resist.
This is a political matter which has to be one politically. You have been played by leftist politicians who inserted Obama care into the culture by the most dubious congressional chicanery. You have been played by Republican legislators who used Obama care as a ploy with sham attempts to repeal it because they needed to win elections and survive. There was one attempt to derail Obama care when it was possible, in a way that was politically possible, it was done by Ted Cruz and his filibuster who was shamefully vilified for his efforts by politicians on the right as well as on the left. To defund Obama care then by way of the filibuster would have made it possible to actually reform healthcare but he was abandoned. Where did you stand when Ted Cruz stood all might fighting to save you? Your plight is terribly unfortunate but the hope that most politicians will stick their necks out for you is to ask more than human nature can deliver.
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