ObamaCare Repeal will be Senate's 1st objective in new congress

[Hermit For Peace]

This is what upsets me about the GOP. All they talk about is REPEAL.

First of all, please get in touch with your humanity and your common sense, and START with how you want to change the healthcare law, and what you want to do to MAKE IT BETTER for the American people, and not just big business.

Don't scare the crap out of people and go slashing a program out the gate just because your ego is too bloated to see the proper way forward. Tell us how you plan to help us get better more affordable health care, and how you will not just swing the ax and let the pieces fall where they may, leaving millions of Americans in the lurch.

Damn, this party is so heartless!

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ObamaCare Repeal will be Senate's 1st objective in new congress

One can only hope.

It increases the share of our aggregate GDP that we spend on medical services.  It doesn't insure everyone.  It guarantees fines to those who choose to opt out who are earning too much.  It provides no assistance to those who are making too little.  And it redistributes wealth from the many to the few. Ironically, perhaps, the right-wing talking heads call it socialism, but in reality it is the antithesis of socialism.  Moreover, many of those in congress freely admitted that they did not read the bill before voting for its passage.  Charlie Rengel famously said, "how could I be expected to read a bill that was 2000 pages long?"

The PPACA needs to go away.  I'm not against Obama.  I voted for him in 2008, and was very open about that on this forum.  Moreover, if a pollster asked me today I'd say that I generally approve of him and his legacy, but I voted for Obama in spite of, not because of, this unnecessary and wasteful bit of legislative agenda.

So do you want this to go away BEFORE they have something BETTER to replace it with? I'm not aware of their replacement plan.

What do you think should be done with people who already have health insurance from the exchange? Just drop them and let them suffer?

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Edited to add: Since I can't find the article to link to, I'll take down this post.

[Hermit For Peace]

Hermit will you link the article please?

It was just there, right on the front page of CNN a few minutes ago, and now there's an article about Giraffes.

I'll try to find it.

Edited to add: I can't find the article. Maybe they stated some "facts" that weren't true and removed it fast.