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2017-07-21 Home Front: Politix

This Is Why Getting Rid of Obamacare is Next to Impossible

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-21 01:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Republicans can win by causing a plausible plan even if they do not have the votes to push it through. If it succeeds in passing, that will be great. If it fails to pass, and it has at least 45 Republicans supporting it, all but a handful of Democrats must vote no. Obamacare and medicaid will be in tatters by the November 2018, and those voting no will be held responsible for that disaster.
What would be plausible?
1 eliminate the fine or tax for not joining an Obama plan.
2 allow insurance cos. to sell their old plans
3 eliminate punitive damages for medical claims.
4 let the states make their own decisions about medicaid.
The Democrats will be destroyed in 2018 if they fight lockstep for the decaying Obamacare.

Posted by Daniel 2017-07-21 03:05|| 2017-07-21 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 20 Trillion dollars in debt. Whether you like it not, you are just playing musical chairs, till the day of due comes. Then it and a hellva lot will disappear. That day of due is coming a lot faster the more economic albatrosses you tie on to the system.

So, the question is why keep you clowns in office. You have no real intentions of saving it. The others will put the system in a much faster financial path to complete collapse. Get it over with quicker and start the rebuilding soon?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-21 08:48|| 2017-07-21 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 20 Trillion dollars in debt. Whether you like it not, you are just playing musical chairs, till the day of due comes.

I am fearful of the day the music stops.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-21 09:16|| 2017-07-21 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The music hasn't stopped in Zim-Bob-We. It's my grandchildren I fear for.

Posted by Bobby 2017-07-21 12:46|| 2017-07-21 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem is that the insurance companies have invested money in Obamacare going forward. They will not permit anyone getting in the way of their income.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-07-21 18:51|| 2017-07-21 18:51|| Front Page Top

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