Unless Trump's media team is going to counter this narrative, promote the bill, explain why their bill is better than Obamacare, and show people suffering under Obamacare, I think they should just let Obamacare collapse. If something is completely broken, people will clamor for it to be fixed. However, Obamacare actually more popular based on polling than this bill (part of it could be lack of promotion). As soon as this is passed, the Republicans will own healthcare. The blame will be theirs, and the Democrats and media will have a field day finding every sad case they can and running it. The nature of healthcare is that you can't please all of the people. The Dems lost over 1,000 seats nationwide over their healthcare. The Dems and media say Obamacare is going swimmingly, so let them own it.
1 posted on
05/24/2017 2:20:58 PM PDT by
Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell
other than for military, veterans and employees perhaps, the federal govt has NO BUSINESS in the health insurance business! NONE!
and it works like krap anyway for the feds to try to do it just look at the lousy VA with some of our honored vets dying in the dirty hallways or on waiting lists to be seen
2 posted on
05/24/2017 2:24:23 PM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: Pinkbell
How many million would drop the “healthcare insurance” they have now which has deductibles so high that they can never file a claim?
To: Pinkbell
Drain the CBO; defund them!!!
4 posted on
05/24/2017 2:26:22 PM PDT by
CincyRichieRich
(We must never shut up.)
To: Pinkbell
Why should the Republicans own Health Care if this bill passes? The democraps refuse to own all the downsides of Obamacare by denying there are any downsides. People need to understand that Health Insurance is NOT Health Care.
I’m still waiting for Obama’s promised $2,500 savings. Instead I now have a $5,000 deductible and “insurance” that essentially pays for nothing.
5 posted on
05/24/2017 2:27:26 PM PDT by
Auntie Dem
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
To: Pinkbell
Oh Dear God - the propaganda is again so thick, you need rubber boots to get through it.
I was one of the “20 million insured” through Obamacare. Why? Because in 2013, my state cancelled my insurance program under the new Obamacare rules. So I had to go on the exchange and sign up for a more-expensive plan. I had to do it again the next year when the state health co-op went bankrupt. YET - the propogandists counted me as someone “insured by Obamacare.”
Lying bastards.
6 posted on
05/24/2017 2:28:32 PM PDT by
PGR88
To: Pinkbell
Single payer would be pushed.
But outside of bandaids and broken bones and pills, why should someone be gifted with free health insurance unless elderly or massively disabled?
7 posted on
05/24/2017 2:29:42 PM PDT by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Pinkbell
As if anyone in the CBO is friends with math.
8 posted on
05/24/2017 2:30:25 PM PDT by
Da Coyote
To: Pinkbell
& the media will report all 23 million will die as a result.
9 posted on
05/24/2017 2:30:29 PM PDT by
rainee
(Her)
To: Pinkbell
After seeing what Obamacare did to my insurance plan and how it impacted costs for my wife and kids, I’m all out of give a f***s.
10 posted on
05/24/2017 2:32:20 PM PDT by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
To: Pinkbell
Arent those the 23,000,000 forced by law to carry health insurance under obamacare?
12 posted on
05/24/2017 2:33:58 PM PDT by
InvisibleChurch
(https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
To: Pinkbell
Why should the CBO be trusted any more than Congress is trusted?
13 posted on
05/24/2017 2:34:54 PM PDT by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Pinkbell
Nice trick given that around 12 million people got Obamacare. To get 20 million, the CBO has to assume that people would be kicked off Medicaid and and their parents’ insurance, etc. Pretty fake number even by Swamp standards.
15 posted on
05/24/2017 2:35:30 PM PDT by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Pinkbell
Most of those losing "health insurance" have ALWAYS had healthcare. Anybody can walk into an emergency room and get healthcare. Medicaid can be had by just about anybody claiming they need it.
The media, as usual LYING.
16 posted on
05/24/2017 2:36:21 PM PDT by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: Pinkbell
So they’ve only got 9 years to find a new insurer? OMG! The pressure!
17 posted on
05/24/2017 2:36:22 PM PDT by
IronJack
To: Pinkbell
out of that 23 million, I think I heard that 16+ million would be because people would voluntarily opt out if mandates were eliminated. But I guess 23 sounds more MSM dramatic than 7 ;)
18 posted on
05/24/2017 2:36:48 PM PDT by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: Pinkbell
The Republicans bill is not going to pass. And it shouldn’t. Their best option is to leave Obamacare in place, get rid of the mandates in a new bill that also states that American citizens can buy any insurance they want. Then stand back and watch the insurance companies go to work to offer insurance that people actually want....just like they did before. And watch Obamacare implode.
It’s really that simple if the stupid Republicans didn’t think they can run Obamacare better than the Democrats. That’s what their bill does.
19 posted on
05/24/2017 2:36:55 PM PDT by
sheana
To: Pinkbell
Estimated 23 million would lose refuse to pay for Obamacare Compliant health insurance under Republican bill: CBO"There, fixed it.
20 posted on
05/24/2017 2:37:05 PM PDT by
norwaypinesavage
(The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
To: Pinkbell
21 posted on
05/24/2017 2:37:14 PM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: Pinkbell
About the same number that lost their insurance under 0bamaCare?
22 posted on
05/24/2017 2:37:28 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
To: Pinkbell
Who cares what the DNCBO has to say.
23 posted on
05/24/2017 2:41:29 PM PDT by
bray
(Pray for President Trump)
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