I thought about something like that, but it seems a stretch for anyone to be surprised that a Republican wants to repeal the ACA, which seems to be the focus of a lot of the protest.
Even in a place where most people voted republican, for isnstance, a lot of people didnt, and it doesn’t take a lot of people to fill a town hall.
Well, we have seen that there are some conservatives who were in favor of repealing “Obamacare” because they thought it was something different from the ACA.
Also, the promise was “repeal and replace” with what they promised would be something better. They’ve never defined the better idea, at least not to my satisfaction.
By honest, do you mean Honest-To-God-Moron?
Independently, I find that both are true and accurate.
Yes the compassionate, progressive liberal who believes humans are entitled to use aggressive force to get healthcare by virtue of being born into wealth. The difference between them and elitist conservatives is hard to discern, for conservatives too lavish privilege onto people based on where and to whom they are born.
Maybe he’s just a fan of WillFarnaby. There’s a first time for everything…
I find it interesting that the same people who think it’s smart for the wealthy to cheat and game the system (see Trump) would rather poor people die than let them get away with it. And by interesting, I mean disgusting.
You demonstrate no understanding of how the ACA works at all, let alone any nuanced perspective. You demonstrate only that you are a voracious swallower of bullshit “news” promulgated by bullshit “news” organizations.
Idiot.
I have used the ACA since its inception. I pay for my participation in the ACA. Every year, I am happy to pay more in premiums than I receive back in medical care. I am happy to pay my share in taxes, too, to make sure others receive care when they need it, instead of being bankrupted because they happened to draw the short straw in keeping their good health and didn’t manage to amass enough wealth to pay for rich coverage. Premiums paid by participants for the ACA ain’t no free ride, as you keep wrongly insisting.
I also pay a lot in taxes as a self-employed person. You be sure to let me know when I am to receive an annual check-the-box questionnaire to send in with my tax return, indicating what items for which I am willing to be taxed and those I am not. I won’t be ticking the boxes for schools, since I have no children. Nor will I elect to pay for senseless, costly wars that accomplish exactly nothing except to create even more costly problems, or subsidies for fossil fuels and farm corporations that don’t need them.
None of us gets to choose where our tax dollars go. I’d rather have mine go toward subsidies to help the less fortunate have access to medical care than anything else I named above.
More than that, I’d prefer to eliminate insurance companies (and their obscene profits on the backs of sick people) altogether and move to full single payer. You want to stop paying for subsidies? Get rid of health insurance companies making their guaranteed profit in the middle.
Moving to single payer would put me out of business. Worth it.
I’ll be at my local town hall meeting on Saturday to voice support for my senators, who already get it and are pushing to keep Obamacare and improve it by adding the public option that President Obama originally wanted. You know; the once forcing insurance companies to get real about their profits and actually compete. Funny thing. I expect my senators to be actually be present at the meeting.
ETA: Actually, I would pay for schools as I understand their importance to the public good. A fact you apparently don’t appreciate when it comes to the health of the populace.
I keep seeing reports where Republicans are saying that Democrats are showing up in *their *districts. Are they admitting that they are so gerrymandered that there shouldn’t be Democrats in those districts?
The white working-class is fine when they are working, just like any other working class. When they turn to politics, that is when they get confused.
Why can’t all those idiot poor people just marry into money like you? Those freeloading fuckers!
Yeah, those dicks. How many people do you know that aren’t gaming the system? Have you talked to the ones who need the system? The ones who weren’t able to leave the abuse of idiot parents? What are you going to do when you hubs retires? Game the social security system?
Yeah, Tom Cotton is a real up and coming GOP slimeball, one of the worst in a real den of snakes.
Well remember, Republicans would rather have 98 people starve than have 2 people cheat the system.
Remember, folks, when white working-class voters are angry at Democratic politicians because of their economic problems, they’re intelligent and hardworking “real Americans” who have been overlooked and short-shrifted by out-of-touch elites who unfairly disparage and mock them.
But when white working-class voters are angry at Republican politicians because of their economic problems, they’re feckless, shiftless spoiled children throwing tantrums because they can’t get something for nothing, and expecting other people to take care of them because they’re too stupid and ignorant to understand political issues.
Glad we got that cleared up.
The other 98 didn’t deserve to eat anyway.
Great straw man bud.
He’ll save them in much the same way Clark Kent saved his father in Man of Steel.
Or how Rutger Hauer saved Paul Reubens in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.