The AHCA was GOP idea, to promote personal responsibility and keep private insurance in the mix of fixing an obvious social problem. Obama put it together with Romney's help. Their opposition now is absurd and designed only to try and somehow equate it as an Obama socialist idea. They are the ones who came up with it. Many of we DEMS wanted single payor and to put everyone on Medicare, like Ted Kennedy.
As late as 2009, GOP, including idiots like Palin, were crying out about how wonderful it would be, as opposed to government single payor health care. The entire "controversy" is contrived in dishonesty to try and embarass and defeat Obama and they are now screaming nonsense about loss of freedoms. They are pissed because it didn't work. They don't have their own health care ideas because this IS their health care idea. When Romney YESTERDAY was talking about what he would put in place after he "repealed" "Obamacare" -- it was openly hilarious. He started listing the things that he would put in place..."no pre-existing condition exclusions"-- and basically just ran down a list of things that Obama already has in the Act. It was silly and designed to play to his base of morons.
Marco Rubio, usually a rather intelligent young man, started talking about the "IRS coming to get you" and the "IRS" this and tat, which was all total horseshit.
The concept isn't much different than Social Security, Medicare, government backed mortgages or flood insurance, which all raised the SAME talking points when suggested. Read some of the GOP tirades about Social Security enactment in the 30's or Medicare in the 60's. These are plans that now Republicans voraciously suck on the tit of, unabashedly--but when they were being proposed, they tried to defeat them as infringements on freedom and socialism. Use your Google and read the history. It is repeating itself, as it always does.
No one is more hypocritical than farmers, Medicare recipients, Social Security recipients and retired government workers & military--- these groups are totally on the titty, pay little and get much. Get the government out of our farms and health care. Idiots.
The GOP in Congress has accomplished little in years except waste a bunch of time with Holder, over something that never even happened. As for insurance carriers are basically organized crime. Now they can't refuse to insure you, drop you when you change jobs, or drop you for claims. That's just horrible. Oh.. and the bullshit about losing your own coverage is complete nonsense. If you have health insurance, you keep it. Read the summaries at least, please.
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Very well summarized and to the point
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