Maybe just once the GOP could try telling American voters the truth? Just for the hell of it?
The truth is on our side here, we gain nothing from perpetuating this bullsh*t scam on the American people. There is no “Keeping Your Plan” anymore. That train has long since left the station. The only thing that anything short of total repeal of the ACA is going to accomplish is to help Democrats in the 2014 election.
The problem is that the "fix" just involves more coercive intrusion on the rights of individuals, on intrusion into and distortion of the insurance marketplace, on the future quality and proliferation of health care providers, and the damaging impact that their own regressive and arrogant assumptions is having on real individual American citizens and their families.
Just who do the Clintons, the Obamas, the Landrieu's, the Feinsteins--no matter how good they believe their intentions are--believe they are? That great intellectual freedom fighter, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and former President may have, inadvertently, identified them in the following quotation:
"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately." —Thomas Jefferson
Kabuki Theater. Sit back and enjoy the show ! God knows you've paid for it.
This has all the earmarks of a deal the RINO party just CAN’T resist.
Only a fool would expect them to resist.
We are not foolish men/women
Therefor, we do not expect them to resist.
If Obama’s Socialized Health Insurance Tax has little or no chance of financial success in 5 years, then why do Federal politicians in “both” political parties try to replace instead of ABOLISH Obamacare?
Don't shoot! Let 'em BURN!
If Boner could barrow a spine and do a news conference. He should say,
“Because Obamacare was shoved downs our throats and the SCOTUS upheld it, we have been trying to fix it. There are no good fixes for this. It’s like trying to get a plane to fly without wings. Before it’s too late, we need to repeal the whole bill and start over. That’s what the House of Reps will now support. Nothing else will legally fix this.”
I am glad its failing and I hope the disaster speeds up.
The GOP should not agree to anything unless Obama reverses his stand and restores the $16 trillion debt limit. Since he would never do that because it requires real spending cuts, let him burn in Hell the next three years over Obamacare.
*sigh*
when all the dust clears the Republicans will get the blame for people losing their current plans.
In reality there is no "fix," mandated or not. The policies have already been cancelled, the damage already done. The insurers have already re-written their policies to comply with Obamacare. It's too late to do anything else.
The Dems are trying to ASSOCIATE REPUBLICANS WITH OBAMACARE by luring them into 'fixing' it, which is de facto SUPPORTING IT.
Heads up, Republicans! Leave it be. Don't touch it!
Wrong, Eric Eric. The government can't force the insurance companies to restore the plans they've already cancelled.
Insist on repeal, or at least defunding. Making the people live with Obamacare is immoral.
However, if they delay the mandate a year and put the to-be-cancelled plans back in place, what that does is to push the cancellations in the individual market back a year, to join the cancellations in the small and big business markets to the fall of 2014 — right in the homestretch of the election campaign.