ObamaCare Repeal is Possibly Dead
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It ain't over til it's over, but I think this may be the end. ObamaCare is most likely here to stay :cheers:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/342447-two-more-gop-senators-defect-on-healthcare-bill
I'm not sure, but I think you meant that the Republicans have given up on trying to pass a new healhcare bill that would repeal / replace Obamacare.
Instead, it looks to me that what they are doing is allowing Obamacare to collapse completely, so that instead of getting blamed for repealing Obamacare and replacing it with something else… they will look like heroes in passing a new healthcare bill AFTER Obamacare collapses completely and is gone.Nope, not what I meant at all. Also, if ObamaCare collapses or if they repeal it they will not be seen as heroes because they will not be able to replace the Medicaid coverage that ObamaCare made available that 19 Republican-led states took advantage of. Do you honestly think they will be seen as heroes for ripping away a program that has given important medicine to people in rural counties who voted for this president? What about those trying to fight opioid addiction? What about states who have been able to balance their budgets easier because of the Medicaid funding provided by the ACA? They OWN this and just like when Democrats lost so many of their seats for passing it, Republicans will lose for showing they don't care about the very people who voted for them. And primary challenges will not save them. When people are afraid of losing their healthcare, they don't want to listen to some far-right nutjob talk about "rape is God's will" or "the body has a mechanism to shut down unwanted pregnancy." I know you remember what happened to the two Senate candidates who said those bogus statements. They ran against and beat electable Republicans in the primaries in Republican-comfortable states and LOST to Democrats because of it.
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What about those trying to fight opioid addiction?
I hope studies will be done on this. I honestly don't know if Medicaid expansion has helped or hurt the opioid crisis. My state expanded Medicaid to childless adults in the 90's and I can tell you from first hand experience that the people on Medicaid expansion are largely white men with substance abuse issues. It seems as though the opioid crisis has only gotten worse since ObamaCare and I wonder if there is a correlation. I'm not making the claim that there is. It's just an observation.
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The sad thing is that many Americans were proud of Obamacare..
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Hopefully this "Skinny repeal" also fails. 16 million will lose their health insurance because of it and it will do nothing to please the Republican base so passing it will still cause political pain for the Republicans. I agree with what others have said in other threads, the ACA was the Republican's plan and they only came out against it because President Obama was the president who signed it into law. The only direction Republicans can go into is to the left on this because the American people will react negatively to any report that shows millions losing coverage.
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Hopefully this "Skinny repeal" also fails. 16 million will lose their health insurance because of it and it will do nothing to please the Republican base so passing it will still cause political pain for the Republicans. I agree with what others have said in other threads, the ACA was the Republican's plan and they only came out against it because President Obama was the president who signed it into law. The only direction Republicans can go into is to the left on this because the American people will react negatively to any report that shows millions losing coverage.
Actually.. the ACA was not Obama's invention.. but Hillary's. When Hillary was the first lady under President Bill Clinton, she came up with a socialized healthcare plan, and she was laughed at by both Republicans and Democrats.
Trump is going to have a massive number of new supporters who are currently being forced to purchase healthcare who will no longer be required to buy it.
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Actually.. the ACA was not Obama's invention.. but Hillary's. When Hillary was the first lady under President Bill Clinton, she came up with a socialized healthcare plan, and she was laughed at by both Republicans and Democrats.
Trump is going to have a massive number of new supporters who are currently being forced to purchase healthcare who will no longer be required to buy it.
Hillary's healthcare plan was very different from ObamaCare. ObamaCare is based off a plan from the Conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. The plan was kicked around in Congress by REPUBLICANS for a couple of decades. It was always their plan.
Then Governor Romney faced with huge healthcare costs due to the amount of uncompensated care given to "freeloaders" as he called them took the plan and implemented it in Massachusetts. Before RomneyCare (and later ObamaCare) people could just go to the ER and never pay the bill. Those costs were forced onto taxpayers and people who had insurance. RomneyCare and ObamaCare ensured that everybody paid something even if it was just a fine.
Romney campaigned against his own healthcare plan when he ran for President which was a huge mistake and likely cost him the election. It seemed like such a big deal back then. Now we have a President who is against stuff he was for just five minutes ago.
