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In reply to the discussion: Republicans In Collapse as Obamacare Enrollment Skyrockets In December [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)18. Also, there were provisions
in the Heritage proposal worthy of being disparaged by Democrats. Heritage proposed converting Medicare to a voucher program. Sound familiar?
The goal wasn't to help people, but to trick Americans into supporting a proposal that did more damage than good.
As Krugman put it:
And heres the thing: Republicans dont want to help the unfortunate. Theyll propound health-care ideas that will, they claim, help those with preexisting conditions and so on but those arent really proposals, theyre diversionary tactics designed to stall real health reform. Chait finds Newt Gingrich more or less explicitly admitting this.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/a-health-care-mystery-explained
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/a-health-care-mystery-explained
Republican proposals are hypothetical and theoretical BS. They have no intention of doing anything positive. They get credit for pushing things that they don't actually support and would never enact.
It's like Romney's veto of the most significant parts of the MA health care law.
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Republicans In Collapse as Obamacare Enrollment Skyrockets In December [View all]
babylonsister
Dec 2013
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With 1.1 million million on the federal site, and perhaps as many on state sites this is good.
NutmegYankee
Dec 2013
#2
In contrast, California Care will help many, many uninsured Californians who wouldn't have
JDPriestly
Dec 2013
#53
Typical of negative posters. Like Rush, they want Obama to fail, don't care who gets killed...
freshwest
Dec 2013
#14
BWAHAHAHA! Please, GOP, run on killing the ACA, the poor, the children and the elderly again!
freshwest
Dec 2013
#17
I'll feel better when I start seeing this on the mainstream news and reading it
calimary
Dec 2013
#20
The real end will come sometime after January 1, when the first claim is paid on
mbperrin
Dec 2013
#29
Thanks for info. Dems need to make sure people know this stuff is because of Obamacare.
Beartracks
Dec 2013
#50
I wonder if right-wingers in red states won't sign up because it has been made so political?
johnnyrocket
Dec 2013
#61