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Repealing Obamacare is not enough: Republicans must unite around a good alternative.
Washington Examiner ^ | 01/13/2015 | Philip Klein

Posted on 01/13/2015 7:50:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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Let's be realistic, as long as Obama is President and Congress and Senate does not have the necessary 2/3 votes to overcome a sure veto ( and they don't ), Obamacare WILL NOT be repealed.
1 posted on 01/13/2015 7:50:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It MUST be repealed.

However, things will not just snap back to the “way they were”. The whole healthcare system was impacted by this colossal Failure.


2 posted on 01/13/2015 7:52:14 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Okay......................Free Enterprise.


3 posted on 01/13/2015 7:52:50 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOPe has no interest in repealing BammyDon’tCare.


4 posted on 01/13/2015 7:53:49 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

What “alternative?” Another statist algorithm of government benefits and punishments designed to channel human behavior?

How about simple freedom and markets? The US health-care industry developed nicely when doctors, drug makers, device manufacturers could sell to whoever needed product, churches and religious groups were free to offer their services without control, and people could buy from or associate with whom ever they wanted.

The Progressives in both parties don’t want that though.


5 posted on 01/13/2015 7:54:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

How about: Personal control.


6 posted on 01/13/2015 7:55:12 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Repealing Obamacare is not enough: Republicans must unite around a good alternative.

Yeah Republicans, you can not stand on your principle of getting government out of stuff that would be mean.

7 posted on 01/13/2015 7:55:16 AM PST by Lady Heron
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And I knew it never would be. Let’s face it; there were only two opportunities to kill 0bamacare after it passed:

1) National Association of Manufacturer’s vs. Sebelius, and;

2) Electing Romney President. Yes, I know. He was a liberal squish. But had two houses of Congress passed a repeal, he would not have vetoed it. And if Dingy Harry had been isolated, enough democrat Senators could have been peeled off in the interests of self-preservation.

But now the damn thing is entrenched, like Social Security, and it’s not getting repealed. From now on, we political debate is nothing more than nibbling around the margins of socialism.


8 posted on 01/13/2015 7:55:22 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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Have any lessons been learned in past debacles that could be brought to the benefit of US health care post Obama?

Doubtless the system needs to be “nursed back to health” once it has been freed of having to be Frankenstein’s monster. In a large sense the US government buggered the private resources that comprised the system, it ought to now be liable for making things right. But not by making it even leftier.


9 posted on 01/13/2015 7:55:27 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The “alternative” should be to allow insurance to cross state lines and otherwise get the Feds out the heath care industry.


10 posted on 01/13/2015 7:55:54 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s like these people have never heard of the free market and competition, that is a win-win for everyone.


11 posted on 01/13/2015 7:55:56 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

How about this?

Nothing.


12 posted on 01/13/2015 7:56:38 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: SeekAndFind

So what would be the objective of this GOP health scheme, 100% insurance coverage or 100% access to healthcare?


13 posted on 01/13/2015 7:57:13 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course repeal of TOTALITARIANCARE isn’t enough. Proponents/deceivers should be in prison.


14 posted on 01/13/2015 7:57:13 AM PST by PGalt
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Repeal and replace with freedom and liberty. The solution to most problems related to government is simply less government, fewer laws, less regulation and less taxation.


15 posted on 01/13/2015 7:57:21 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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America is going to need to learn how to do the things it supposed that it would never do. No leftist sacred cow should be exempt. These were, in general, attempts to do what charity actually does. To create a far more charity friendly regime would make the greater sense.


16 posted on 01/13/2015 7:58:25 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Yes. The Government should be held accountable for this wide scale destruction. I agree with you.

I would hate to see the remedial costs assigned to the taxpayer, though. (Sigh).

It is a dilemma of monstrous proportions.


17 posted on 01/13/2015 7:58:33 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: PGalt

If pardoning the perps is needed in order to get the political momentum to abolish the system, nobody should be quailing over that.


18 posted on 01/13/2015 7:59:26 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

America needs the political will to say “NO” to a lot of people who really need to hear that word but aren’t accustomed to hearing it.


19 posted on 01/13/2015 7:59:36 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

There are certain aspects of ocare that have popular support that something will have to take its place. I would suggest setting the bar of policy type to something much lower, like major medical rather than the near Cadillac plans ocare pushes.


20 posted on 01/13/2015 8:00:03 AM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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