# This is the last chance Republicans will ever get

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-last-chance-republicans-will-ever-get/771330 "2016-11-10T05:27:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-last-chance-republicans-will-ever-get/771330/14 "2016-11-10T07:00:41Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> The working class doesn’t care about health care? Nonsense. The working class has more medical problems than the middle class. And there are huge numbers of jobs which don’t have health insurance.

**adaher** answered that charge; I helpfully bolded the important part:

> [@adaher](#):
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> The Democrats had an opportunity and they failed. No, it wasn’t as miserable a failure as the GOP from 2001-2006, but **what Democrats did when they took power in 2009 was not at all what the public wanted**. That’s something that few liberals are yet willing to admit to themselves. Wave elections don’t happen because you did a great job. A governing majority cannot be maintained with poor minorities and rich environmentalists and catering mainly to their interests, yet when you look at what Democrats’ top three priorities were(climate change, immigration, health care), there’s not much there for the working class. Those are issues that primarily benefit the non-working poor and rich people who want to preserve their beachfront homes.

Nobody wanted health insurance; they wanted health care. I just posted this in another thread:

> [@I don't think I can say this in the Elections forum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/62):
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> All of the rational methods that people have seen tried over the last 20-30 years have not worked _for them_. Any deal that gets made that might help Average Citizens is immediately co-opted by the wealthy and by business. The PPACA is a great example of that, IMO, and one of the reasons that people hate it: it isn’t the type of help that people wanted or needed.
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> No one was pissed that they couldn’t get health insurance, for fuck’s sake. People were pissed that health care cost a lot of money, more than it does in any other country, and they didn’t have enough money to get health care.
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> But here comes the PPACA, offering our tax dollars to health insurance companies and mandating that we give them money out of our pockets besides, and then we have to let them dole money out to our doctors. Who the fuck wanted that besides the people skimming money off it?

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