...for a crap sandwich today!
Posted on 03/25/2017 5:33:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
AHCA was pulled from the floor yet again this afternoon, and it now is probable that Obamacare will be the law of the land for years to come. This is an utter disaster for U.S. health care, not to mention individual liberty, and the responsibility rests squarely on shoulders of a small cadre of political opportunists with the effrontery to call themselves the “House Freedom Caucus.”
These people held out for the impossible — full repeal of Obamacare in one fell swoop — and have thus destroyed the only realistic opportunity their party will have in the near future to eradicate the law’s individual and employer mandates, enact entitlement reform, expand HSAs, defund Planned Parenthood, halt the metastasis of Medicaid, and cut its myriad taxes.
Moreover, they have made a mockery of their group’s name by perpetuating the increasingly oppressive and powerful administrative state, leaving their constituents to the tender mercies of Beltway bureaucrats whose contempt for the taxpayers who support them is exceeded only by the breathtaking incompetence with which they mismanage everything they touch.
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...for a crap sandwich today!
I’m speechless.
Never would have thought...
No argument from me on that. But if the swamp is such a big problem then why would anyone buy into a multi-year fix for an idiotic health insurance law?
There is not enough bandwidth available on Jim's FreeRepublic for me to scream your words loud enough for these GOPee dunderheads to ever hear it! So, I'll just repeat it, softly this time!
Your level of arrogance is astounding. You are an asshole.
Thank God it failed. We had to know something evil was coming when they went for the pass it to know what’s in it phrase. rep Meadow, deepest regards for courage under political fire.
It needs to at least be repealed immediately! They can fight over which donors to keep happy later. Get rid of mandates now!!!!
What a freaking misleading headline.
full repeal of Obamacare in one fell swoop
That is what most of us want.
Who wrote this crap?
It never was “Obamacare”.
It always was “Obamabuse”.
Completes the full unconstitutional government takeover of healthcare as a necessary step to complete socialist tyranny. Healthcare would become like the DMV and the Post Office.
"Take a number. What? You're dying? Sorry, we can't do anything about that. Sit down, and shut up. Maybe we'll call your number."
So the Free-dumb Cuck-os solution is to defy Trump and leave Obamacare in place.
So sick of these prostitutes who only want to insure their next election while we are the ones who have to PAY!!! Repeal NOW!!!!
We need to get TERM LIMITS put into the constitution by a convention of states. Get rid of all of these whores as soon as we can.
Why is this complicated? Just pass numerous one topic Bills.
Bill #1, eliminate the Obamacare Mandate taking away the power of the IRS to punish People who don’t have Healthcare Coverage.
Bill #2, Provide States Block Grants to provide Medicaid funding while mandating that NONE of that Money be used to provide coverage for ILLEGAL INVADERS. Take the Feds out of the equation.
ETC, ETC...
Yeah, I know. Too many Legislative “rules”. LOL
The ONLY good, solid healthcare system that works for the most people AND is constitutional, is the market economy free of government interference. Nothing in this world is perfect and nothing will completely satisfy everyone, but freedom and the free market is way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
Legal argument: The Constitution does not authorize the feds to meddle in healthcare at all. The Constitution did not create a central government to satisfy everyone. The Constitution created a central government to protect God-given individual freedom to pursue life and happiness as each individual saw fit. Why has freedom from government become such a radical idea in America which was founded on the idea of individual freedom?
Economic argument: Why would anyone want to trade the best healthcare in the world which we had until the feds began interfering in the 70’s, for the DMV or the Post Office running healthcare? “Take a number, maybe we’ll get to you.” Who wants some stupid bureaucracy inserting itself between you and your doctor? No one would trade freedom for tyranny unless it crept in very slowly and gradually without anyone really noticing. Creeping socialism. That is the only way we’ve reached the point where we are now.
When did the feds start unconstitutionally meddling in healthcare? When did the cost of healthcare become a problem? Both the meddling and the problems began in the 70’s and it was causal, not coincidental. Everything in the free market the feds touch turns to dust and ashes. Common sense tells you that when a third party (the feds) inserts itself into a transaction, the transaction will cost more because you’re also going to have to pay the third party. In this case, the third-party interference of the feds requires massive skyrocketing costs in the creation of more new, bloated, useless, and unconstitutional federal bureaucracies. Common sense.
Repeal Obamacare (“Obamabuse”) with the goal of getting the feds out of the healthcare business altogether. Although certain protections may be necessary for a one-or-two-step repeal, the repeal should be speedy followed by a quick divestment of ALL federal government involvement in healthcare. I don’t really care how or what it takes to get there and/or what kind of political maneuvering will be necessary.
My concern is that so few understand the goal itself - that healthcare must be in the market economy free of government interference. If you don’t have the right goal, you’ll never reach it.
God, by your grace, restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
I blame Ryan and those Cucks in that Caucus equally. I also blame each one of you Freepers that insisted on defying Trump. Thanks everyone for Obamacare—because that is so much better.
Why is this complicated? Just pass numerous one topic Bills.
“Bill #1, eliminate the Obamacare Mandate taking away the power of the IRS to punish People who don’t have Healthcare Coverage.
Bill #2, Provide States Block Grants to provide Medicaid funding while mandating that NONE of that Money be used to provide coverage for ILLEGAL INVADERS. Take the Feds out of the equation.
ETC, ETC...”
I like it. Until they repeal this nightmare, we the people continue to suffer. I am really angry that they play stupid games instead of doing what was promised.
Thank you.
It was NOT a step forward. It was a crap sandwich. I am seeing so many typical GOPe talking points from the Freedom Caucus bashers. The Obamacare crap sandwich belongs to O and the D’s, and them ALONE. Ryanocare belongs to Ryan and his minions. Put those facts in your pipe and smoke them.
NO MORE GOP SOCIALISM. NONE.
Funding healthcare for illegal immigrants is bad enough. But keeping the individual mandate is a non starter.
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