Posted on 02/22/2016 4:07:34 AM PST by rootin tootin
If there is any issue on which members of the GOP are united it is Obamacare. Gallup recently found that 86% of Republicans disapprove of the law. Yet Donald Trump has just won two GOP primaries despite his support of its worst provisions. Before the South Carolina contest, for example, he announced that he favors its universally reviled individual mandate. In New Hampshire, he studiously avoided denouncing the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Trump claims he will repeal the law but said yesterday that opposition to national health care was part of the problem with Republicans. So, how can he be winning GOP primaries?
Perhaps it is because non-Republicans are allowed to choose GOP presidential candidates? New Hampshire and South Carolina hold open primaries in which undeclared voters and independents participate. Of the 100,406 primary votes Trump received in New Hampshire, more than 38,000 came from undeclared voters. Of the approximately 211,000 votes that Trump received in South Carolina about 47,000 came from alleged independents. It is no coincidence that the only state nomination process that Donald Trump has thus far lost involved the Republican Iowa caucuses, in which only actual Republicans are permitted to participate.
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I notice you haven’t answered my question. Did Trump say as recently as last Thursday, he likes the mandate? You know, that thing that says you and I must purchase a product in order to be in compliance as a citizen.
Desperation in action on the eve of another Teump victory at the polls.
Talk about babble(ing)-on
Buncha cuckservatives.
Is it possible for them to get Trump right ONCE???
JUST ONCE?????????
“Game is over folks.”
I pray you are right! Nevada hasn’t had much air time so I’m assuming Trump will get that easily..
Present the viable alternative to Obamacare, now that this can of worms has been opened, and The Donald will integrate that into his larger plan to unlock a very onerous burden on US business interests. There may be some wiggle room on this “providing medical assistance to everybody” that satisfies both fiscal good sense and the pressures of compassion, but for sure, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” fulfills neither of these objectives.
Is “universal health care coverage” either desirable or possible? That question has not been settled in my mind, as people have different attitudes as to how much, or how little, assistance they may need in maintaining their personal degree of healthful living. Some may refuse to participate in any health insurance scheme whatsoever, choosing to self-fund all their medical services, if and when they shall be called upon. Others are obviously dependent from day one of funding for their health care to be provided by others. But the vast majority is willing to make an equitable and just contribution to the pool of money necessary to adequately fund the delivery of the finest system of medical services that the world has ever seen, and to assure that degree of technology shall continue to be funded in regards to research and development into the future. Most of these funds shall not come from government sources, but from the fruits of an ever-expanding capitalist growth of the economy, of which taxation and regulation are the principal limitations.
The path seems perfectly clear to me.
This isn’t complicated in any way. Obamacare effed up everyone’s health care trying to cover 10% of the populace, The plan is to put back the old private insurance system though employment and groups and HSA’s. And, put the rest with no access or no funds on medicaid.
If you put America back to work, build the wall, quiet immigration and deport illegal squatters there will be a net reduction in Medicaid recipients. Obama and the GOPe pretended you could have a Welfare State WITH Open Borders. If you can’t see that simple plan then you are willfully pretending just so you can call Trump a Liberal.
I get it. You don’t want to acknowledge that fact. I can understand why.
Authors and publication would be wise to remember that canidates come an go while a reputation as habitual liars will follow them around forever.
Mandate support, followed by walk back, touch and go amnesty, fools who believe.
So in other words leave Obamacare fully in place. Got it. That’s what I said his plan was before and now you agree with me.
How is it possible that you don’t realize what you are describing IS Obamacare?
He’s also stated though that he would not repeal the mandate. So how do you square that with his earlier pronouncement that he would repeal Obamacare? The mandate is the crux of Obamacare.
The whole episode makes me think we are dealing with a Clintonesque figure who uses word games to disguise what he’s really planning to do.
I agree, but I still think Cruz will take TX, likely take UT, and possibly will take AR and even TN.
Other than that, Trump runs the table, and in those states he doesn’t win (OUTSIDE OF UT, which seems to be weird) he will be #2 and get those delegates too unless they are winner take all states.
It is SO much fun watching the Establishment Conservative Media since Saturday.
Almost as much fun as tuning-in for the Keith Olbermann Head Explosion whenever the Left had had a bad day.
I agree it looks much like Trump now but it really depends on the delegate counts. Frankly I hope we don’t have that to deal with problems at the convention. This may just have to be my year to skip the X in the Prez race.
Everyone here doesn’t vote ya know.
Rubio has Mormon family
Well that is no excuse.
Vote.
The media and their K St. accomplices see themselves an king makers.
They are seeing their power slip away.
They will not go out without a fight.
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