Congressional Republicans Reveal Secret Love for Obamacare

New York Magazine ^ | 12/10 | Jonathan Chait

[Unmarked Package]

Egads, Jonathan Chait has penned an utterly worthless article here. No wonder it had to be given a provocative and misleading title to garner any attention. Move on, there is literally nothing to see here.

[JediJones]

The closest you can get to “opting out” is to buy insurance yourself direct from the company, not on the exchange. Paying the mandate tax isn’t “opting out,” it’s funding Obamacare with your tax dollars.

[Madame Dufarge]

The author is a distinguished alumnus of Journolist.

Agitprop is what he does and it shows.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It WILL collapse under its own weight at some point.

The insurance companies are unindicted co-conspirators in Obamacare. They want to milk all of those new customers at gunpoint of every dollar they can get before the collapse occurs. And they’ve spread enough money around the RNC to ensure that happens.

[nickcarraway]

They want it to collapse. Then they will have fully socialized medicine.

[C. Edmund Wright]

If I’m not mistaken, he founded it didn’t he?

[Count of Monte Fisto]

So, how does a "hook, line and sinker" taste? You've fallen for Chait's BS all the way…….

The Republicans could have stopped Obamacare if they wanted to. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and others tried and would have succeeded but for the GOP bosses that cut their legs off from under them. The same big government loving GOP bosses that made hardcore Taxachusetts liberal Mitt Romenycare their standard bearer.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Some of what you say might be true, but that’s no excuse to fall for this bullshit article and the points raised by Chait.

[Madame Dufarge]

I believe Ezra Klein did.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Egads, Jonathan Chait has penned an utterly worthless article here. No wonder it had to be given a provocative and misleading title to garner any attention. Move on, there is literally nothing to see here

And yet, many Freepers are here frothing all over their keyboards, thinking they're onto another piece of juicy info…...

[C. Edmund Wright]

U right…Klein did….Bernstein had a part too……which I had not known at the time.

[OldNavyVet]

Obamacare was passed into law in accordance with the US Constitution, and killing it in the Supremne Court would have been a monumental mistake.

Hear this Conservatives.

Robert's Revenge is kicking in.

hallelujah!

[kabar]

Insurance isn’t a kind of gamble where you bet you can beat the house by consuming more in medical care than you pay in premiums and deductibles. It’s protection from risk. People like that protection. They will pay to acquire it.

This idiot fails to recognize that insurance is not the issue with Obamacare. Unlike most other insurance, you can not tailor Obamacare to fit the individual needs and amount of risk one can assume. Obamacare is basically one size fits all. Why should a 27 year old, single male opt for maternity coverage?

[dforest]

The idea behind this piece is to get knee jerk reactions to the title and try to tie republicans to secretly liking Obamacare.

Some of them may be turds, but none of them like Obamacare.

[drypowder]

The NWO elite will take no prisoners once they trigger the S2HTF in the US. This will include their faithful servants in DC. If those in DC seriously believe they will escape the coming deadly chaos, I dare say they are likely making a huge miscalculation.

[ToastedHead]

“The Koch brothers are paying activists...”

Lol.

[nickcarraway]

Aren’t the Koch brothers left wing on everything but unions?

[The Mayor]

Throw the bums out

[ToastedHead]

You can play six degrees of separation tying any mention of The Koch Brothers right back to AFL-CIO activism. (No scientific evidence, just random observation:)