Date correction: February 26, 2014
“I don’t understand the [Democratic] strategy of wanting to fight on terrain that benefits Republicans,” Mackowiak said”
I’ll answer that comment: The dems obviously figure if they were able to sway the dummies who vote to vote for Obama twice, they can convince them to vote for anything. All it takes is the big lie to be broadcast constantly on social media right up to the election.
Obviously, conservatives would be wise to have a solid list of clear, easily understood reasons why ObamaCare cannot be fixed. Additionally, they must be shown an easily understood way to get health care. Only 51% of the actual voting population needs to be convinced. Since many of the likely voters are also the people most likely to be forced to pay their own way, conservatives don’t need to convince welfare clients that they are right. They need to convince likely voters they are right.
Why Can ObamaCare not be fixed no matter what anyone tries?
1. It costs individuals/families too much in total. Premiums are higher, copays are higher, and deductibles are higher. Change that and it can’t be paid for. Unless you enslave doctors and nurses and force them to work for nothing, then that simply cannot work.
2. Also, regarding funding, it must have young people to pay for something that they don’t need and don’t have the money to pay for. I guess you could make the penalty a jail sentence, but that won’t work. Charging a stiff fine won’t work, because the issue is already that they don’t have the money that the government is seeking to get out of them.
3. You can’t take half of a median income for healthcare and expect that family to be able to pay for home, food, clothing, transportation, insurance, amenities.
What is better?
1. Insurance across state lines lowers insurance costs.
2. Tort reform lowers insurance costs.
3. For the 15-30 million who supposedly were without care (although they could go to hospitals)...expand county health departments to do health exams for sickness (not breast implants, sex changes, contraceptives, etc.). If they need a shot, they get it there. If they actually need hospitalization, send them with a voucher to the local hospital. Vouchers paid for by the Fed. No voucher and no insurance in the hospital emergency room, then you are told to go to the county clinic. (Obviously, with the exception of true emergencies.)
The hospitals were covering the costs anyway.
The WTC attacks on 9/11/2001, it was said, produced $100 bn in damages and killed 3000 people, Americans, in a day.
There is no question whatsoever that 0bamacare has produced $100 bn in damages in terms of lost wages from reduced hours and will have probably killed 3000 or more people, Americans, by March 31, 2014.
“We cannot go backwards to letting the insurance companies “do what they want”...but the solution then must be that we must go “forwards” to letting the insurance companies do “what we want”, “we” being the government elite and its enforced structures of cronyism and uninterrupted incompetence and corruption. Further, these new structures also provide for the taxpayer bailout of these same insurance companies to protect their profits for going along with this regulatory regime; the taxpayers already having been lied to repeatedly, deliberately; their health coverage premia and costs raised massively.
There has never been a more vicious, evil, and diabolical assault on the American people, and there has never been a more vile and offensive gaggle of elitists and fascists operating with all speed against the American people.
informing its candidates that “the political landscape around the Affordable Care Act has shifted in Democrats’ favor”
What drugs are these people on???
In other words, these governors are looking at the open-ended, unconstrained Medicaid mandate and seeing fiscal insanity. Secretary Sebelius NEEDS to spread the costs of these entitlement expansions over the states to keep the ACA from showing its true cost.
I believe Maine’s governor Paul Lepage blew off the meeting with his holiness and came back home a day early.
He said something about he tries to make every meeting productive, and that pretty much left Obama out.
I’d say she’s playing with people’s lives. And I can think of the instance of the little girl that needed a transplant that she wouldn’t allow to move up to the adult list for a donor as one example of her playing with lives.
I’d say she’s playing with people’s lives. And I can think of the instance of the little girl that needed a transplant that she wouldn’t allow to move up to the adult list for a donor as one example of her playing with lives.
Democrats are killing people and are now doubling down and wanting the GOP to be accessories.
What the hell is she talking about? Eric Holder just told the STATES that they can IGNORE ANY LAW THEY want to.
Attacking and undermining the 1st Amendment is not disregarding it.