GOP “Leadership” On Obamacare
The Republican Party has a problem. It has spent the last three-and-a-half years vowing to undo by aYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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The free market with all their lobbyist have caused health care to be unattainable for many working people as well as employers. Don’t blame Obamacare for this problem!! The shit was through the roof before the 2008 election. I had to drop my coverage in 2005.
The free market with all their lobbyist[s]…
TBG is repeating this over and over in his mind, waiting for it to make sense.
So far, to no avail.
Still…nothing.
Oh God God man !
Say it!
These poor insurance companies need a tax cut!
Damn!
Everybody (that pays!) needs a massive tax cut, Hoss.
OK, Tonto, look at tort reform caps. Has that lowered costs? No!! Buy oh my, how much these Doctor’s claim to pay in malpractice insurance!! Who’s kidding who here??
My quibble is that we are so far from the “free market” most people wouldn’t recognize it if it snuck up and bit them on the @$$.* My snark was directed at “free marketers” using lobbyists to curry favors/[non]competitive advantages from the government.
Of course, TBG expects “free market” businesspeople to do this… the problem is that our government is large enough to facilitate it. Crony capitalism etc.
Oh, and to answer your question;:
No, although it may have slowed their growth. Doctor’s do pay a ton in malpractice insurance…but since they all have to, it’s just another business expense that is passed on to you and me.
* “@$$”, TBG’s homage to BigT.
This is bullshit. Obamacare would get funded anyhow, even if the government shut down. This isn’t a “chance” to “defund” Obamacare, since the Dem Senate and President have the numerical advantage, so to call people weak/not conservative for recognizing that is disingenuous or just plain stupid. And choosing not to default on our national debt when faced with numerical (there’s that word again!) superiority over spending cuts is statesmanship—something DeMint or his nerdy acolyte Ted Cruz don’t know how to spell.
This is such a tired straw man. We haven’t had anything approaching a free market in health care for at least 50 years. Government creates a problem, everyone complains, government tries to “fix” the problem they created, things get worse, and nobody blames the one party actually responsible. Rinse. Repeat.
We’ve had massive financial regulation for over a century and everybody still blames the so-called “deregulated” “free market” for everything that happens on Wall Street too.
In response to Vanguard16…
The government never regulated insurance companies to drop coverages in pursuit of profits. It is only now regulating them to not be able to do it.
If you think complete deregulation and an adoption of an entirely free-market health care system will not have major faults at the cost of the consumer, you are sadly mistaken. There is a reason why no country has a “true free-market” system in this regard.
“if the GOP is serious about defunding this abomination, then it needs to defund it.”
Okay, great. In the spirit of, you know, actual governing, the Republicans are going to have to give up quite a bit in order to get this defunded. Which of their policies should they concede in order to legitimately defund Obamacare?