“Republicans must now take the lead on the replace part of “repeal and replace”.”
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Ideally, I think they should repeal and NOT replace. In other words go back to a free market health care system, that would mean dropping volumes of law that were in effect even before Obamacare but the chances of that are slim and none and Slim is on a very long vacation. There is a lot of room to do something less absurd than Obamacare which only an idiot would vote for unless he stands to profit immensely from it but anything other than getting the government out of it is the wrong thing to do.
The problem with government is that it can so easily pretend to be devoted to doing good when it almost never is. The reason you seldom hear of a person seeking an alligator and sticking his head in the alligator’s mouth is that just about anyone can understand how dangerous that is but people seek governmental solutions to their problems because they don’t realize that in the long run the results are similar to sticking your head in the alligator’s mouth.
No, I don’t mean to say that government can never do anything positive but it takes people of real character AND INTELLIGENCE in government to do the right thing, those people are in very short supply most of the time and certainly now. My normal opinion of government is that we should be shouting, “DON’T JUST DO SOMETHING, STAND THERE.”
Agreed. But the spin from the DNC and their mouthpiece MSM will be "starve children, throw granny over the cliff". Basically the Repubs must repackage the free market idea along with some real changes like tort reform and cross state portability for starters.