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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the tables are turning on Obamacare
CNN:Republicans warned seven years ago that a health care law passed only by Democrats -- with no support from the other party -- would struggle to survive. The party-line vote to pass Obamacare, they said, was arrogant and reckless.
Now, the GOP is in charge, and poised to run afoul of its own warnings.
As Republican lawmakers begin to dismantle President Barack Obama's landmark health care law, awaiting the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, they face the prospect of overhauling the American health insurance system without any help from across the aisle. Democrats appear increasingly determined to offer Trump's party as little help as possible.
GOP efforts to revamp the Affordable Care Act -- some 20 million people are covered through Obamacare while many more have been less directly impacted by the law -- are poised to disrupt millions of Americans' health insurance. If repealing and replacing the ACA ultimately becomes a purely partisan Republican exercise, Obamacare could emerge one of the biggest political liabilities for Trump and his party -- just as it became a problem for Democrats.
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How the tables are turning on Obamacare (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2017
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. Make the GOPee own the repeal!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)4. Do not help them!
They will use it against you four years from now.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)2. It's 30 million now!
Important that we correct the 20 mill figure, and many are new so they will have just started when it gets snatched away.
J_William_Ryan
(1,753 posts)3. Republican healthcare reform
is the ACA.
In fact, Ryans plan to get rid of Medicare is the ACA: private insurers provide coverage with government subsidies.
The idiocy of repealing the ACA is that Republicans have nothing to replace it with; again, the ACA is the Republican plan.
Indeed, the rights unwarranted opposition to the ACA has solely to do with the president who signed it into law, and little to with the merits of the Act.