re: #288 lawhawk

Because Obamacare doesn’t have quite the ring that say RomneyCare would.

They hate the fact that it was a Democrat who enacted legislation that was modeled entirely on a GOP idea and the whole individual mandate was modeled on the Heritage plan for personal responsibility.

But the moment Obama tied his support to it, the GOP turned it into a shitshow of epic proportions and that it must be destroyed at all costs, even though the preexisting system of health insurance was a total failure and uninsureds were driving hospitals to bankruptcy and pushing all those costs on to those who have insurance and the means to pay.

The ACA begins a process of transparency on costs, which in theory should help reduce costs since you can now see what procedures and items cost before you use them. That’s a work in progress, but getting more people into private insurance (which the ACA does through marketplace insurance) and through Medicaid expansion (which most GOP states have so far refused to do) means more people are insured when they have to engage a health practitioner. And those people can now see doctors before minor issues become major expenses, they aren’t refused insurance because of preexisting conditions, and dependents can stay on parents’ insurance until age 26.

The GOP wants to undo all of that, all to get Obama’s name off the program.

I used to joke that if Romney won in 2016, the first and only legislation he would demand and get from Congress is a rename of Obamacare to Romneycare, and the GOP would drop the issue entirely. Then again, the GOP is that destitute of facts, logic, and compassion, that they’d simply repeal Obamacare without any alternatives - and that’s their current situation. Their alternative is vaporware and malware masquerading as rhetoric.

They can repeal and implement FearCare - We Scare because that makes enough of you vote for us.
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