Posted on 11/12/2018 9:55:39 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Republican Party lost its House majority on July 28, 2017, when Sen. John McCain ended the party’s seven-year quest to repeal ObamaCare. House leadership had done an admirable job herding cats. On the second try, we passed the American Health Care Act in May. Then McCain’s inscrutable vote against the Senate’s “skinny repeal” killed the reform effort.
McCain’s last-minute decision prompted a “green wave” of liberal special-interest money, which was used to propagate false claims that the House plan “gutted coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.” That line was the Democrats’ most potent attack in the midterms.
It was endlessly repeated by overt partisans in the media. An especially egregious column in Minneapolis’s Star Tribune asserted the AHCA would turn back the clock so that “insurers could consider sexual assaults and even pregnancy [to be] pre-existing conditions.” In fact, the bill prohibited sex discrimination and stated: “Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting insurers to limit access to health coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.”
The problem was—and still is—that under ObamaCare all policyholders are charged as if they are sick. If restoring a modicum of traditional underwriting by loosening the Affordable Care Act’s strict age-rating rule discriminated against the old, then ObamaCare was—and is—discriminating against the young. The AHCA would have relieved this problem by allowing states to opt out of ObamaCare’s most onerous mandates and instead cover the most difficult-to-insure with $138 billion worth of high-risk pools. That would have arrested the ObamaCare “death spiral” and, as the Congressional Budget Office admitted, reduced both premiums and the deficit.
Emerging in response to World War II-era wage and price controls, health insurance has been tied to employment.
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Don’t forget McConnell, right before the election, saying , cut Social Security. After 2 years of no cuts in federal spending
Why would the McCain family go again a woman who served her country? They are awful people to come out against our nominee.
Pretty sure more “pi$$ on his grave” tickets were sold than even Ol’BJ Klintoon...
You bet. Sombody ought to kick his a$$! :)
No. The GOP lost the House over a hundred years ago. There’s a very well established pattern, with rare exception, like twice in the last hundred years, the party of the sitting president loses seats in midterms. Period. It’s very boring actually.
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Hush don’t interrupt the tortured and dramatic analysis and finger pointing.
Of all the campaigning I saw, heard, or read, not one Republican candidate quoted this, during the campaigning for the mid term elections. God, our people are sometimes just incompetent campaigners.
The outlook was awful in 2010, with Rats in charge of WH, House, and 60 Senate seats. But it didn't last. No reason why it won't happen again. A New Tea Party is needed, though, and new media alternatives to Fakebook etc.
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Republicans lost the House because 100 of ‘em - min - don’t act like Republicans
The son-of-a-bitch was no good.
Of course, you do - you have to blame someone. However, I agree with the column and I was telling my Dad that this past weekend.
In Virginia, which has voter ID, repubs lost 3 or 4 seats. The pubs were outspent 3 or 4 to 1 and hammered incessantly with ads about pre-existing conditions aren't covered by repubs. The response consisted of Trump using 20 seconds during an hour rally to reassure everyone that republicans will cover pre-existing conditions and a few ads.
See tagline.
Plenty of blame to distribute, but Ryan is most to blame.
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