Those who do not keep their word are known as liars.
I’d bet one part they keep is the one that says health insurance is a right and the government should pay to make sure everyone gets insurance.
Obamacare didn’t make health insurance a right, but once the Rs sign on, it may as well be an amendment up there with the 1st, 2nd, 14th or whichever one any specific politician cares about. It will never go away and it will gradually include more and more of the population.
Face it: the Republican party is garbage. They lie their ass off. They have zero intention of repealing ACA. They have zero intention of uprooting the seed the Democrats planted. No, they will allow it to grow, and they will prune it so that it may be healthy and thrive. They will give ACA all the TLC it needs.
The Republicans can go the hell. They are enemies no less than Democrats.
0bamacare cannot stand on its own.
“On July 9, 2013, Fairholme Funds, Inc., a mutual fund that held preferred stock issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as “Fannie Mae,” and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as “Freddie Mac,” filed suit against the U.S. government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, seeking “just compensation” under the Fifth Amendment for their property when the Obama administration, in the so-called “Net Worth Sweep” of 2012, confiscated all Fannie and Freddie profits.
In 2008, when the economy went into recession over the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, HERA, to save Fannie and Freddie by a federal bailout that placed the two Government Sponsored Entities, GSEs, into government conservatorship, with the U.S. Treasury recapitalizing Fannie and Freddie by issuing to the GSEs $187.5 billion in senior preferred stock with a 10% dividend designed to repay the U.S. Treasury over time.
But in 2012, when Fannie and Freddie became profitable, as the mortgage market returned with rigorous credit underwriting and a zero-interest rate environment maintained by the Federal Reserve, the Obama administration initiated a “Net Worth Sweep,” designed to confiscate 100% of the profits generated by Fannie and Freddie.
The result was that private shareholders like Fairholme Funds were paid nothing on their Fannie and Freddie stock.”
https://www.infowars.com/lawsuit-obama-robbed-private-investors-to-fund-obamacare/
If they just repealed the individual mandate, that would be a win.
Liberal media is just wild about the “skinny repeal” LOL!
Three tweaks and one of them is a simple tax repeal?
No commitment to the free market to fix this 15% of our economy, and without restoring the free market we are certain to slide to a fully socialized system.
Reading that the most important and sensible measures will be alowed to fail, while the republicans investigate their own president, is imho the death knell of the republican party.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.
Time for our new president to eliminate every single regulation written to work with obamacare. That in itself would completely kill this beast.