outlawauron said:
Yes? Maybe my times are off, but I can think of 3-4 major Republican congressman that put together plans only to get shut down. Obama vetoed legislation that would have repealed Obamacare and replaced it. There was no one shining solution, but to say that Republican just sat on their hands is dishonest. |
This post from the Times says that Republicans have really done nothing to bring an actual replacement of Obamacare instead they have brought a lot of repeal to which was never going to get through the President. Lets be honest first, Republican have never voted or even wanted a government healthcare that covered all Americans because it was not in the best interest of Insurance carriers. People forget that it was Insurance carriers and healthcare advocates that were fine with getting paided at the expense of US Citizens and who lobbied against the ACA not for it.
Now these insurance companies are raising rates while they also tripple their CEO salary and claim they are not making money. The key is that they are not making hand over fist type of money on us so of course they want to raise rates and hope the ACA gets taken down.
As for the new Republican plan, there are some good and bad but the thing is, if they would come to a bipartisan table and hash out some of this stuff the ACA probably could be made stronger for all Americans without. Just opening the plan up for every state to compete would drastically improve the ACA in my opinion. The problem is that the ACA came from Obama and no matter what, Republicans do not want anything or helping anything from Obama.
I will go so far to say that if America was being attack by any eneny and Obama needed the Republican Congress to save us all, they would rather we burn then let Obama save America.
