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 ...
Free market. They don’t have to “study” Deninger. Just ask for advice from William Sowell and Walter Williams. They don’t have to study Insurance or Medicine or Delivery or Accessability or Affordability. Turn it over to the free market in toto and you get all of those things fixed fairly quickly and the best foreign medical graduates will flock to our shores to make up for the shortfall of the best and brightest who have been declining to go into Medicine for worsening returns and the same absurd liability. The American Best and Brightest will return to the field,and if we pile serious tort reform on top of that, we will be so far the best medical system in the world that Germany and France will look like third world. Of course I am pretending that Germany and France were not otherwise eagerly jamming themselves into the Third World right now for other insane resons.
I would assume that the ones who are using it did also, and are also still paying for it.”
You bet we are........
One thing that really shows here is the gullibility of the voting public.
For years, conservative voters have been electing lying politicians (especially faux conservatives...Republicans) only to find out that they are in the “don’t rock the boat” and the “can’t we all go along to get along” club.
The most amazing thing is the gullible voters actually believe what they say in their speeches upon upcoming elections! Term limits are the only solution to the problem! We will never see that happen because it would really “drain the swamp!”
I think they know that.
Not going to happen.
When I glanced at the title my first thought was which congressman named “Bill” is she writing about? It’s early out here ...
She is wrong about the high tax payers voting for Hillary and the non tax payers voting for Trump. Frankly I think she is bat-— crazy.
I’m convinced the GOP did everything they could to help pass Obamacare while keeping their hands off of it publically.
Rand Paul is a bit off thinking all association membership should be equal like one business for group health insurance rates. Associations have always received so called 3rd party contracts that provide a portion of the commission paid, but; associations cannot be treated equally as group insurance rates each business on occupational risk like office workers or assembly line types. The office /white collar get better rates for risk, the next factor is claims loss ratio. Yes, the AMA and BAR association types are white collar, but; Plumbers and HVAC types will be rated higher on risk.
Cruz and Lee wrote much of this.
The original version Paid Insurers 50 Billion directly.. the new version 70 Billion dollars directly. It’s an insurance bailout. #notjustno
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