The Supreme Court has in its hands now…it has already made a decision but they need 3 months to write up the ruling…..it is NO secret that I think SCOTUS is a joke but they are the final word on constitutional matters and we will have to wait for the news of their ruling and that should be good for a couple of weeks of MSM jaw bumping…….
Until then let us look at the GOP’s favorite slogan….at least for now…..Obamacare: Repeal and Replace….we Americans have been exposed to this bumper sticker for almost a year…but if it is repealed what will be its replacement?
From The Week Magazine……..
Republicans charged into the 2010 midterm elections with the battle cry: “Repeal and replace” the Democrats’ massive health care reform law. The GOP rode that promise to a landslide victory, but once conservatives took control of the House and were strengthened in the Senate, the “replace” part of the equation sort of disappeared. With the Supreme Court seemingly on the cusp of striking down or neutering ObamaCare, effectively carrying out the “repeal” part of the GOP promise, there’s a new urgency regarding what, if anything, would take the law’s place to fix America’s broken health care system. Do Republicans have a plan?
No. “Replace” was always a lie: Republicans have been promising to unveil their ObamaCare alternative for 15 months, says Jonathan Bernstein at The Washington Post. And here we are — still waiting. “The truth is that ‘replace’ has always been a fraud, cooked up presumably because a flat-out repeal of health care reform polls much worse than replacing it with some unspecified legislation.” If the Supreme Court does toss out the law, at least it will call the GOP’s bluff.
“The GOP’s ‘repeal and replace’ fraud”Of course Republicans have a plan: “There is a Republican health plan,” says John Goodman at Fox News. But just as Democrats are often loathe to discuss ObamaCare, “Republicans are just as afraid to talk about their plan.” That’s because it’s “more radical and progressive than ObamaCare”: It scraps all the “arbitrary, unfair, and wasteful” federal and state tax subsidies for insurance coverage and gives every America the same amount of money to buy their own insurance. Problem solved.
“There is a GOP alternative to ObamaCare”The GOP solution might look a lot like ObamaCare: Even ObamaCare opponents know that some parts of the law — like the rule preventing insurers from turning away customers with pre-existing conditions — are “overwhelmingly popular,” says Eli Lehrer at The Huffington Post. But such provisions cost money. So we ObamaCare detractors have “a rather unenviable set of choices”: Find a way to pay for the popular parts of the law, or oppose it all and take a political hit. The sad truth? Keeping the popular parts of the law means embracing a solution that will be awfully similar to ObamaCare.
“An unenviable health care choice for conservatives”
Well Romney’s plan is out for it looks like Obamacare. So what s left? Tax credits? Savings accounts? what is the GOP’s stand on getting adequate health care for Americans? A better question is…Is there a plan?
I guess these questions will be answered in June when SCOTUS chimes in……
Why is the Supreme Court a joke?
And maybe there needn’t be an alternative. Maybe it’s best to figure out why costs are on the rise – apart from ObamaCare – and do something about it, leaving people to take responsibility for their own healthcare once costs are down.
I do, however, support a universal system for all children.
Hello Terrance…was beginning to think that something may be wrong…..glad to see you…
SCOTUS is a joke because it was set up to be apolitical and it is not…….they are all activist judges…..something the slogan makers are railing about…..
I do not support Obamacare but there is NO alternative……prices will go up no matter which set of people come up with the ‘perfect’ plan….I want to hear the specifics of an alternate plan…….repeal and replace is a bumper sticker not an alternative….
Lobotero,
LOL. Oh, no. I’m just back in school these days so I’m busy studying.
You have no idea how much I agree with you on this. I literally uttered these exact words to my father the other day. LOL.
Yes. Repeal and Replace is a bumpersticker line. But the left often touts a single-payer or universal system. I can’t support that. I will support a system, however, that covers all children from conception until 24, or so.
School? Cool! good luck with that endeavor……..
What blows my mind is “Obamacare” started out as a conservative think-tank ides, later proposed by Romney, and begun in his state, but now it’s evil. The right-wing doesn’t even believe in their own stuff.
Hansi……yep…i believe heritage foundation originated the concept but that was B.O. (before Obama)…..
As a proud member of the Heritage Foundation, I’ll admit: they did. Back in 1994, I believe, as a response to HillaryCare.
Then why is it such a bad idea for conservs? I mean Heritage writes a lot of what Ryan says, among others……..
Lobotero,
It was a rash response to HIllaryCare. The Right worried that the Clinton’s would try to push through a single-payer system, so to counteract that, they came up with the individual mandate. It was a “lesser of two evils” type thing. They admit they were wrong and changed their mind.
Terrance well and good…their new slogan is repeal and replace….what is their replacement program? maybe they just wna tot repeal it and to Hell with the other side of the slogan…….