They Republicans all voted against Obamacare most of them for show and to create the emotional wedge to draw us in to vote for them in 2010.
The lie of their vote “against Obamacare” was already being told in the GOP campaign slogan “repeal and replace”.
The Republicans have also stated that they wanted a more “market friendly” health insurance “marketplace”.
Romney said there were “freeloaders” in the healthcare system when he campaigned for president.
Romneycare in Massachusetts forced everyone to buy higher priced health insurance to bring more money into the healthcare system bailing out their financial woes.
Obamacare does the same on a nationwide basis with liberal window dressing like abortion coverage and pre existing condition coverage on the side. The Republicans want to keep Obamacare with some window dressing of their own.
They sure do, never mind that it is essentially unconstitutional and fascistic - but then, that's what the chamber of commerce is all about - indenturing an entire nation.
If they want to open a market place, I’m find with that, as long as not one soul is required to participate. Indeed were they good men not one dime of Tax payer dollars should go to supporting this “market place” either.
Let it be a mall, where the participating vinders support it. The Government of the State should exersze no mandate on what is required for the people to buy, and Washington shouldn’t even know about the thing.
The only legitimate role for our State Government in a market place is mitigating disputes between sellers and clients regarding who sold what to whom.
Ultimately Obama care will kill the health insurance industry. If we don’t provide an out of pocket tax free replacement option such as restoring health savings accounts a lot of people are going to get hurt.
We don’t need to replace Obamacare, but we do need to undo most of the damage 50 years of private socialized medicine has done to our country and healthcare system.
Simply put the tax code of the Federal Government has driven people’s health savings into collectivized “accounts” called health insurance companies. The problem is these health insurance “Accounts” are not really savings accounts at all, but demographic bombs like that of the federal ‘Social Security’ system just currently a lot better managed.
Nonetheless The effect of theses company’s removing of the individual from the position of being concerned about cost in the making of their health choices over the last 50 years, has invariably led to progressively poor health and higher costs.
This is not a problem we can solve over night. The money simply isn’t there anymore it was squandered long ago.