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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"7 Things Republicans Would Be Shocked To Learn About Ronald Reagan"
7 Things Republicans Would Be Shocked To Learn About Ronald ReaganBy Zack Beauchamp at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/02/06/3258121/reasons-tea-party-hated-ronald-reagan/
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1. Paved the way for Obamacare
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Reagans health policy previewed Obamacare in three major ways. First, Reagan signed Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), the law barring hospitals from turning away patients on grounds of their insurance or citizenship a preview of Obamacares ban on insurance discrimination against individuals with preexisting conditions. Second, Reagan doubled the size of Medicaid over the course of his presidency to pay for all of those new uninsured patients a huge Obamacare-style Medicaid expansion. Third, Reagan pushed something called Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), which essentially had the government set the prices Medicare was willing to pay for each Medicare admission rather than pay for reimburse doctors per cost. DRGs cut Medicare costs by $49 billion by 1986, proving a promising trial for the sorts of Medicare payment reform policies you can find in Obamacare.
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"7 Things Republicans Would Be Shocked To Learn About Ronald Reagan" (Original Post)
applegrove
Feb 2014
OP
I'm glad he pulled out of Lebanon, don't know why we need to be snarky about that point.
reformist2
Feb 2014
#2
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)1. What Was He, Some Sort of Fucking Commie?
He should have been impeached! Ideological purity forever!
reformist2
(9,841 posts)2. I'm glad he pulled out of Lebanon, don't know why we need to be snarky about that point.
applegrove
(118,706 posts)3. We are snarky because the GOP base are hypocrites thinking Saint Ronnie
gave birth to their creation myth and justifies all of their current actions. Their current actions are gutting the middle class.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)4. That's Right! Creation myth.
Reagan is no longer Reagan. He is now a personality cult, just like dead Lenin was.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)5. That he is dead ?