General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans are now paying the price for a years-long campaign of Obamacare lies
Republicans are now paying the price for a years-long campaign of Obamacare liesThey promised better insurance. They cant deliver. Now the jig is up.
Updated by Matthew Yglesias on March 8, 2017 7:30 am
Donald Trump added his own signature dose of shamelessness to the Republicans shameless crusade against Obamacare.
Were going to have insurance for everybody, Trump told the Washington Post after the election. Under Trumpcare, according to Trump, people can expect to have great health care. It will be in much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better.
This was bolder and brasher than what more establishment-minded Republicans had said over the years. But it was, fundamentally, similar to promises and insinuations made by Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and dozens of other Republicans. Its not just that the Affordable Care Act was killing jobs and sentencing people to death panels. Its that Republicans had some much better plan in their back pocket that would give Americans what they want cheap, comprehensive health insurance that offers them oodles of choice.
It was a great line, and it helped Republicans win Congress and eventually the White House. But it was a lie, and now Trump and Republicans in Congress are paying for it.
http://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/3/8/14843762/ahca-republican-lies-obamacare
lame54
(35,315 posts)they'll pass this thing
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)unblock
(52,298 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)them full cover. Hardly was it mentioned, even now, how tens of millions of folks got healthcare for the first time, the historically low uninsured rate that resulted, or how the ACA had many provisions in it other than affordability..... to reign in corporate profits, eliminate the junk polices, and use more money for actual healthcare rather than executive salary, etc. etc.
Most importantly it was never mentioned in the election cycle how the ACA was sabotaged upon implementation by Republicans refusing to do things provided for in the ACA, like funding the important risk corridors in whose absence the health corporations had to increase premiums, or how Republican governors inexplicably refused to take Medicare funds for their citizens.
The ACA needs some fixes for sure but so do all major laws....that is the point being ignored by the media now.