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Originally Posted by Danzig
the only way to fix medical, and get everyone covered is single payer. all this convoluted bs is just that, bs. it fixes nothing. it is unaffordable. but the pols are too chicken to do what really needs doing.
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The GOP had an uncooperative hissy fit on every single thing this president was trying to do from day one. So he compromised by going to a 100%, straight-GOP-health plan from the 1990's, that had already been proven to work, in practice, and lower insurance costs in Mass. There is nothing wrong with this plan. They added more consumer protections. Yet the GOP still had a hissy fit, over their own damn plan.
For goodness sakes: Paul Ryans current budget to destroy Medicare moves it from a government non-profit program, to a privatized for-profit voucher program that is an exact duplicate of the ACA! And he touts all the financial benefits.
The ACA a 100% GOP plan, proven to work in practice in Mass., yet the GOP still didn't put up one vote for it, because they are more concerned with sabotaging this president than helping the citizens of this country.
This was the best the citizens could get against the 100% obstruction of the GOP against this president. Health care is an economic issue, it's out of control here, it's driving this country to poverty. The president was absolutely right to address it.
This president addressed our health care disaster, like every single president, Republican or Democrat, since Johnson has tried to, and finally got something passed with not just a simple senate majority as it needed, but with 60 votes - a clear and overwhelming majority.
The current incarnation of the GOP is done as a political party. They will have an overwhelming disaster this fall, then the brahmins of the party will take back the reins from the John Birch Society/Tea Party/Evangelicals, and try to recover from 2016 on.