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Originally Posted by Guest
Correction: 55 Billion dollars, that's billion with a B, was earmarked for Florida at 5.5 billion dollars per year for 10 years to expand Medicaid, that Gov Rick Scott rejected. These were not new tax dollars, but federal tax dollars already paid and sent to Washington. So now our federal tax money is being sent to states like Ohio and Arizona, where the republican governors expanded Medicaid and put the welfare of their constituents above their hatred for Obama.
Six years we've been waiting for the GOP healthcare plan, you remember 'repeal and replace'. At least Donald Trump told us last week that his replacement plan for Obamacare will be "terrific". That is more than the republican congress has told us about their plan since 2009.
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Let us first dispel of the old wives tale that you are trying to sell here.
This is from 2010 Wall St Journal....an article criticizng the Republican party but making note
"In the House, Republicans were frozen out from the start. Three Chairmen—Charlie Rangel, Henry Waxman and George Miller—holed up last spring to write the most liberal bill they could get through the House. Republicans were told that unless they embraced the "public option," there was nothing to discuss.
As for the White House, House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor in May sent a letter to President Obama "respectfully" requesting a meeting to discuss ideas. The White House didn't respond. Mr. Obama's first deadline for House passage was July, and only after public opinion turned against the bill did he begin to engage Republican ideas. Yet in his September address to Congress attempting to revive his bill, he made no concession save pilot projects for tort reform."
The GOP and ObamaCare - WSJ
The criticism in the article revolves around the writer thinking that at some point, even though being blocked at every turn, they maybe should have given a bit more because of the size and cost of the bill....
"In the end, Republicans couldn't as a matter of principle support even 50% of a bill that was such a huge and reckless expansion of government. If they had, they would have rightly lost the support of their own most loyal supporters. In the end, too, the bill was so unpopular—59% opposed in a Sunday CNN survey—that 34 House Democrats voted no and Mr. Reid is resorting to reconciliation to get the "fixes" of more taxes and spending through the Senate."
I highlighted in red what is important. Those who are staunch Democrats of the far far left laud this bill as if it were the greatest thing since sliced bread. It was unpopular and for a bill of such proportions, it REQUIRES A MANIPULATION to even get it passed with total control of both houses.
Now that we have that....lets understand....IF YOU SPEND SOME TIME reading at all, there are a number of proposals to replace/adjust Obama care as the cost will bankrupt the country and sooner than later.....
I might add that also inherent were some strong objections of a legal nature, and then we will move on to any possible alternatives.....but this from FORBES in 2012.....
"I’ve tried my best to explain that most conservative opposition to the mandate is not driven by partisan hypocrisy. Here is Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute in 2006, well before anyone was worried about Obamacare: “An individual mandate crosses an important line…it opens the door to widespread…political interference in personal health care decisions.” Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, also in 2006: “The first concern [of the Massachusetts health plan] is the requirement that every individual in the state must purchase health insurance or face financial penalties.”
What a Bipartisan Version of Obamacare Would Have Looked Like - Forbes
Ok....now we know that this bill is far from popular, far from smart, far from saving health care costs and was a simple political exercise and duping on the american public.
Now, you sarcastically promote that Republicans have just been sitting on their hands ....thus my next post.