ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Kinser79]

(03-25-2017, 02:07 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-24-2017, 01:05 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-24-2017, 06:52 AM)Odin Wrote:

(03-24-2017, 03:07 AM)Galen Wrote: It appears that the Freedom Caucus has a good chance of sinking Obamacare lite, or as I like to think of it Ryancare.  It looks like after eight years of falling on their sword for Boehner they have decided not to with Ryan.  I so much like Rand Paul better now that he is not running for president.

It's fun seeing the GOP fuck themselves over with their own infighting, it will be so ironic that it is the Tea Party wackos who end up saving the ACA. Your side had 7 years, SEVEN YEARS, to come up with a decent alternative plan and work out a compromise between the different factions in your party, but nope.

The GOP is the dog that caught the mail truck, and now the truck has run over the dog.

Actually the GOP has always had the solution all along.  REPEAL Obamacare.  End of discussion. 

Replacement is a different matter.  Myself I'm in favor of people buying their own damn insurance.  If people can be trusted to buy car insurance and home owners and renters insurance they can be trusted to buy health insurance.  In fact I'll go further and say that the tax structure that makes employer based health care a prudent choice in compensation packages should also be abolished.

A full repeal would have been killed by moderates scared of losing their seats in the midterms.

And you already know my opinion on healthcare and I'm not changing my mind on it.

Moderate Republicans want a repeal too.  In fact not repealing is likely to cost them their seats as they'll be primaried.

Yes I know your position.  I'm not even attempting to get you to change it.  That would require a cephalanalectomy and I don't think we have a surgeon on the board.