It would also screw over a lot of people with pre-existing conditions again – since the ACA ended the clause that you could be denied insurance due to having one.
All that must be done to kill Obamacare is to remove the mandate.
Mencken had this stuff pegged a hundred years ago. He wrote (paraphrased) "It’s the Democrats job to screw things up. It’s the Republicans job to keep it that way."
You get one guess.
They wouldn’t just need a majority, but a filibuster-proof majority. That is not going to happen.
Would they if they could? Yes. They put too much of their rhetoric on it. It would cost them voters if they didn’t.
I have a relative that, due to age and pre-existing conditions, is effectively uninsurable in today’s world. The only reason at all he and his wife have insurance is because of ACA.
Yet he continually rails against “Obamacare” and wants it repealed, and sings the praises of Trump. I wonder at the mental gymnastics required to hold such contradictory positions at the same time.
I have nothing against Canada. It’s a great country, and there’s nothing wrong, and everything right with it.
Except the massive number of Americans who would want to live there. I’d sooner choose Antarctica for that reason.
Have you ever attempted to point this out to him?
I must say, I’m surprised at the sheer tenacity of GOP opposition to health care reform. It’s been 6 years, and they’re still deranged about this issue.
If your political opponents enshrined into law something that goes against your core beliefs would you still be “deranged” after six years or just let it go? Pick whatever issue makes your heart flutter.
What I figured was that it would be like other social changes that nobody now wants to reverse, like women’s suffrage or the end of segregation. The opposition to gay marriage seems to be dimming pretty significantly as well.
The idea that sick poor people should be able to receive medical attention without going bankrupt seems to me to rank amongst those things. I thought conservatives would have gotten used to that basic principle by now, and the Overton window shifted to the left. But I confess I have a liberal bias, and I also have a direct personal stake in this. If the ACA is repealed, I will lose my healthcare.
They might not be able to repeal ACA if there are 41 Democrats in the Senate, but if the President were opposed to it, wouldn’t he be able to hobble it severely via appointments, executive actions, etc.?
I think it’s more like New Deal era policies, which the right still wants to dismantle. Or abortion. Or regulations on industry.
Executive actions are a moral evil that only Democrats use.
Rick Kitchen wrote: “Executive actions are a moral evil that only Democrats use.”
Sarcasm or not?
Of course.
If the “core belief” it goes against is “Fuck those guys, I’m against whatever they’re for”, then yes.
Which is the case.
Isn’t because its always been blocked by a Dem majority? If I recall, the last time they voted to repeal was a big deal because it was touted as the first time a repeal made it to Obama’s desk due to the Senate falling to GOP control. I may be remembering things wrong though
The GOP was split on Trump. They are lock-step in line with repealing the ACA
Maybe I’m being cynical, but I don’t think the ACA is against core conservative beliefs. It was, after all, repeatedly mentioned as having come from the Heritage Foundation. Past conservatives have championed something similar, such as Romney. It is only now their core belief to hate it because Democrats passed it and millions of people love it and credit them for it. Had Bush somehow been able to get this done, conservatives would be crowing over it like a gold medal. What’s deranged is that they haven’t been able to give credit where credit’s due in 6 years, but that probably has more to do with trying to keep their jobs than some personal hatred of the law, though some of them have shifted since then to hate it for real
Budget reconcilation bill that cuts it to ribbons, or more likely, just straight repeal the Filibuster and go hog wild with their entire wish list.
You think they wouldn’t do it?
Not a chance, even if they had POTUS, both houses, and 60 in the Senate.
The House might do it, but the Senate would never sign off on a bill that outright repealed everything. They’d pass something and *** call*** it a repeal, but it wouldn’t be.
I’ve never even bothered to look at the 40-something or whatever “repeals” the House passed to see if they were really repeals.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The funny thing is that the Republicans used to talk about repealing Obamacare and doing their own version of health care reform. They’ve had six years to come up with their alternative to Obamacare, but they haven’t made much progress beyond Step 1: Repeal Obamacare.
Health insurance in this country is a fucking disaster. Obamacare is a band-aid. And all the Republicans can think to do is remove the band-aid.