From the comments so far, it’s apparent that most didn’t read what Johnson said, that his approach is to “repeal, dismantle, and transition to something better.”
Personally, I’m pleased to see someone take a realistic view of the mess, rather than just pitching a hissy fit. Yelling “No!” is not working.
It’s working just fine for me.
The GOP must make NO into an action.
The GOPe claims we grassroots conservatives are the “talkers” and they take “action” but moderate policy has never been the real action that needs to be taken.
The real action that needs to be taken.
TOTAL REPEAL OF OBAMACARE.
The point is that the discussion should be that government has no business in the health care business. Every conservative should start off with that simple statement. When questioned what is the solution, the answer is to inform people that they are responsible for thier health care, get government out of it, inform people that they are responsible for thier health care, cut the regulations, inform people that they are responsible for thier health care. The point is to continually inform people that they are responsible for thier health care.
Yes, I don’t get the impulse to twist on Johnson either, but for the sorry focus of the NRO’s delivery of any clarity to the point he is making.
Republicans have yet to offer anything but a question mark for their alternative plan and Johnson is more than ready to get cracking on that.
The problem is, Johnson thinks its “permanent” law. It’s a problem.
And you think Ron Johnson’s repeal/dismantle/transition is going to work? Is it going to get enough Senate Democrats on board to override Obama’s veto?
Obamacare is built like a house of cards. Every special benefit that was added was counterbalanced against some kind of fee, tax or rate hike. There’s not much you can keep in without have to keep in the other part that balances it, and then the part that balances that part, and so on. Not that that balancing is actually working in practice. But this idea of “keeping parts” of Obamacare doesn’t even work on paper, unless it was something so narrow that it could be in a one-sentence bill (like the rule about having to cover 26-year-olds on parents’ plans). The exchanges are such a complex part of Obamacare, if you keep those, you’re pretty much keeping the whole bill.