Posted on 07/12/2017 5:52:47 PM PDT by Rockitz
Republicans are about to do something very stupid. Using bribery, threats and cajolery, they intend to pass a catastrophically unpopular bill on a party-line vote.
GOP: Obamacare is unpopular, so let's pass a new health care bill that's even MORE unpopular.
Normal Person: Why would you do that?
GOP: No, you don't understand. Obamacare is totally imploding, so if we pass this bill now, all its problems will be blamed on us!
Republicans would be better off doing nothing. They can survive the ridicule for running against Obamacare through four election cycles and then not repealing it. They cannot survive a bill that does nothing to fix the actual problems with Obamacare.
The only explanation for the GOP doing something so stupid and unpopular is that it's all about tax cuts.
Why can't we get it through their heads that we didn't elect Trump to cut taxes? Forty-five percent of people don't pay any federal income tax -- and they voted for Trump! Taxes on high earners (or "Hillary voters") are at a historic low.
Here's a somewhat more important issue I'd like to submit for Republicans' consideration: PEOPLE CAN'T BUY HEALTH INSURANCE THEY WANT, CAN'T SEE THE DOCTORS THEY WANT AND CAN'T AFFORD THEIR PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES.
How about allowing people the option of buying insurance that doesn't cover sex change operations, gambling addictions, psychotherapy, liver transplants for illegal aliens and so on?
Instead of squandering this moment, Trump the businessman should seize it to trumpet the free market. This is a golden opportunity to give a speech explaining why, contrary to everything your professors told you, communism doesn't work. To paraphrase Talleyrand, what Republicans are doing with Obamacare is worse than a crime; it's a mistake.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Ann is absolutely correct.
“The only explanation for the GOP doing something so stupid and unpopular is that it’s all about tax cuts.”
That was one of the only good things GWB did, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
“PEOPLE CAN’T BUY HEALTH INSURANCE THEY WANT, CAN’T SEE THE DOCTORS THEY WANT AND CAN’T AFFORD THEIR PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES.”
Preach it!
Well they’re a bunch of frickin’ idiots, so it shouldn’t be surprising.
From Rand Paul:
“I miss the old days, when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare. Republicans across the country and every member of my caucus campaigned on repeal – often declaring they would tear out Obamacare “root and branch!” What happened?
“Now too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars into a bill that doesn’t repeal Obamacare and feeds Big Insurance a huge bailout.
“Obamacare regulations? Still here. Taxes? Many still in place, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars.
“Insurance company bailouts? Those, too. Remember when Republicans complained about Obamacare’s risk corridors? Remember when we called the corridors nothing more than insurance company bailouts? I remember when one prominent GOP candidate during a presidential debate explicitly called out the Obamacare risk corridors as a bailout to insurance companies. Does anyone else?
“Now, the Senate GOP plan being put forward is chock full of insurance bailout money – to the tune of nearly $200 billion. Republicans, present company excluded, now support the idea of lowering your insurance premium by giving a subsidy to the insurance company.
“Remarkable. If the GOP now supports an insurance stabilization fund to lower insurance prices, maybe they now support a New Car stabilization fund to lower the price of cars. Or maybe the GOP would support an iPhone stabilization fund to lower the price of phones.
“The possibilities are limitless once you accept that the federal government should subsidize prices. I remember when Republicans favored the free choice of the marketplace.”
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3568624/posts
Every single problem in healthcare before Obamacare was a direct result of government being involved. Obamacare “fixed” that by getting them even more involved.
Now the republican idiots are going to “fix” Obamacare by owning it politically, and enshrining in law that Health Insurance is a right.
Asshattery. Only Rand Paul and Cruz get it.
I am so disgusted with the republican party.
It is not about tax cuts..it is getting reelected...big donations from K street and the medical lobby.. Doctors are making a fortune..along with the insurance companies..it is not even insurance anyone there just there to do the paper work for the government..
Medicare is fee for service the old people fill the doctors offices if they have an ache or pain,,it is free..
Golfers are the worse.
Levin was talking about this tonight. The GOP Governors want this crap so they can brag to their state constituents how they are balancing the budgets while still funding Medicaid.
Kasich, Snyder, FL's Governor, even Walker here in WI. They're addicted to federal Medicaid funding from the Feds like crack.
We are going to have single-payer healthcare folks. And that means rationing and providers leaving the system in droves. That means higher taxes. That means your grandparents, or those with terminal illnesses are going to face the infamous death panels, deemed by those who determine who can live or not.
I would rather have Obamacare in its present form than what the Republicans are doing now. In fact, why are the Republicans even lifting a finger anyway? NO REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR OBAMACARE. Either repeal Obamacare, or just let it implode.
Their donors want tax-cuts.
Yes, but it's actually the Republican Governors who are caving on this though.
Just get out of the health insurance business altogether. The vanity of politicians who think they have to fix everything is frightening.
Whatever happens the public will rightly consider the Pubs to be responsible. That’s what happens when your party gets all the power. The public won’t care who passed Obamacare. The Pubs have the power to kill it or change it, and the public knows it. Whatever happens is on them, period. If they leave Obamacare in place and it fails it’s on them. Want all the power? You own what happens. If anyone thinks the public is going to blame the Dems when Obamacare fails they don’t know human nature.
It doesn’t matter what they “stood” for, because they have never actually done anything.
What they say doesn’t matter, only what they do matters, and they don’t do anything, so Republicans do not matter.
I know. I posted that one too.
Trump the businessman was never all that big of a fan of the free market, and Trump the president hasn’t preached for anything remotely resembling a free market healthcare plan.
I know, he’s playing 9-D chess.
The Republican party is rotten to the core. That’s why Trump got elected. That’s why they stick it to him at every opportunity.
They’re going to lose.
Trump needs to identify senators and representatives that need to go, identify persons to take their place, start prepping them, and then talk directly to us, “give me a Congress that will work with me”, present those persons AND WE WILL ELECT THEM.
“Medicare... is free.”
I have been paying for Medicare since my very first pay check.
I would assume that the ones who are using it did also, and are also still paying for it.
100% truth!
“What they say doesn’t matter, only what they do matters, and they don’t do anything, so Republicans do not matter.”
They’ll certainly “matter” IF they take ownership of Obamacare. But you’re correct, all their bluster and hot air about repealing Obamacare was absolute BS. I’m so sick of the so called Republican Party anymore. Prolly the one thing that Trump could do to really appeal to all those who put him in office at this point, would be to declare he’s starting a new party. Anybody who wants to join him in MAGA is welcome, otherwise get the hell out of the way.
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