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Why Wont Obamabots Realize No One Wants Obamacare

Why do Conservatives say Obama lied about his health care promise that 'If you like your plan, keep it. If you like your doctor, keep it.'?

They say it because it was provided as an anti-”Obamacare” talking point.But in one sense it WAS true: junk insurance plans that cost a pittance, featured high deductibles and copays, and paid virtually nothing were no longer permitted. As a result, many Americans who’d opposed Obama from the beginning suddenly decided that those plans were highly desirable, and that Obama had no right to keep them from having such plans if that’s what they wanted.This conviction was helped along by several misconceptions that have been circulating for a while. First, the notion that health insurance isn’t strictly necessary, since getting sick is a “choice,” and they were “choosing” to get exercise and “eat right.” So why should they be “forced” to have insurance if they didn’t intend to have medical problems?Second, the notion that if, despite their efforts, they got sick, they could just pay for it out of pocket. (Never mind the fact that many doctors can’t and won’t take cash for an office visit——the vast majority of Americans could NOT afford even an uncomplicated laparascopic surgery, let alone a more complicated illness or procedure.)And, third—-and this is the most ridiculous one of all—-that the emergency room makes a dandy substitute for every form of health care, and it’s free of charge to boot!I always tell these people, “Obama told the truth. If you like your doctor, you can keep him/her….but it might cost you extra. That’s because the ACA was designed primarily to ensure affordable health care for more Americans, not to provide bargains for people who already have insurance.”

Has President Trump replaced 'leadership' with 'cowardice' when he says, "Let Obamacare fail"?

What’s new?. He has always been a coward. He was never a leader with any coherent vision or plan. What plan?. He just makes up shit and his stupid supporters just believe him.What he is also showing and its clear for people to see is that he is a petulant child.When he can’t get what he says he wants he gets angry and blame everyone but himself for the failure while anything good that happens he takes every credit.It’s inline with his personality and as time passes the more people see it.Everyone who has given him a benefit of a doubt like many independents can now clearly see him.He is not able to make any hard decisions the same as the Republican in the Senate. They are all cowards.In many ways it again illustrates the difference between him and Obama which must piss him off to no end.Obama knew how hard Health care reform would be. He none the less as the leader he is took it on because its a serious problem that needed to he worked on. Not messing around it like Trump and Republicans are doing now.Trump is thinking that by doing this he can just blame Obama.The public can’t be fooled for long.He is now in the office. When they let Obama care fail and people die its all on him and the Republicans. He and Republicans are grossly underestimating Independents intelligence.If he thinks 36% approval rating is low. Wait until they let Obamacare fail and people start dying.

Is "Medicare for all" a better replacement for Obamacare?

Real research and Facts have said YES "Medicare for all" (universal health/single payer) would be better all around health care (cost/efficacy/outcomes) for the USA, but some of the biggest [insurance/big pharma] companies in the world would be and are AGAINST "Medicare for all" (universal health/single payer). Plus we have a President and Congress who are deeply embedded in insurance/big pharma pockets [sort of like the NRA]

How was President Obama able to pass the Affordable Care Act by getting enough votes and Republicans can't with a majority of senators?

It's hard to pass new laws; but, repealing old ones is almost impossible. There's a policy inertia that developes over time. Once a law is on the books, even a bad one, people and institutions have equities invested. Businesses conform to its mandates, people become accustomed to its requirements. Sometimes a devil you know is preferable to the uncertainty of a devil you don'tSecond, the Democrat majority in the Senate was bigger during the early days of the Obama Administration than the Republicans is nos. When the Affordale Care Act (ACA) passed just before Christmas of 2009, Democrats held a supermajority in the Senate. This gave them the 60 votes required to invoke cloture, a parliamentary maneuver to cut off debate thus short circuiting a GOP filibuster. Republicans currently have just 52 votes, leaving any bill that comes to the Senate floor without strong bipartisan support vulnerable to a Democrat filibuster.To overcome the lack of a supermajority, the American Health Care Act (ACHA) was conceived as a budget reconciliation bill. Reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered and require only a simple majority of 50 votes. But, reconciliation measures are limited to budget related matters. This constrained what the GOP Obamacare replacement bill could include. I wrote a fuller explanation of this at my web site Roughly Explained Here’s an excerpt:AHCA was to be the first in a three stage process. Its passage was to be followed by regulatory modifications and then a second bill that would perform the remaining heavy lifting of reform. Few believed that second bill would ever happen. Judging from the ignominious fate of this one, they believed so with good reason. Without the broader market-based reforms planned in the second bill, it was hard to see how AHCA would have been much better than what it replaced.The Affordable Care Act’s core provisions were passed under normal rules, although a number of additional elements were passed in 2010 as a reconciliation bill. By contrast, the AHCA was completely at the mercy of the limits inherent in the reconciliation process. The result is an imperfect bill that couldn't win enough votes. This, combined with the policy inertia that set in around the ACA were enough to seal its fate.UPDATE: While Republicans were able to scrap together enough votes to pass a modified version of the AHCA through the House, it still faces substantial hurdles and long odds in the Senate, for all the reasons lifted above.

What are the chances Obamacare will survive Trump's first term?

This is a really hard question to answer.The Republican party has a real dilemma on their hands.The basic structure of the ACA is redistribution:Taxing the rich to pay for the poor.Making the healthy pay more so that the sick have to pay less.Republicans don’t like this one bit:They want the rich to pay less in taxes.They want the poor and sick to get less in benefits (or at the very least they support policies that would lead to this outcome).They didn’t put it that way in the election because “I want you to get less coverage so rich people can pay less in taxes” doesn’t sound too good. But that’s the crux of the policies they’re proposing.Now, the good news for Republicans is that the ACA is fairly unpopular.The bad news is that it’s unpopular because people want their insurance to be more generous and to cost less. People think the deductibles (the amount of money that needs to be paid out of pocket before insurance benefits kick in) are too high.What Republicans want to do is to make the benefits less generous: insurance would only be “catastrophic insurance” and deductibles would be higher than they are now.You can’t have your cake and eat it too, here. If you want to repeal the taxes on rich people - which is what Republicans want to do - Obamacare will have to be less generous:lower subsidiesstingier coveragehigher deductiblesThis will make their ACA replacement/repair or whatever “R word” they want to use, less popular.What will they do? I don’t know. I’m glad I’m not the one faced with this dilemma. They’ve promised that they’d do something, so something has to be done. The problem is that the ACA has interlocking parts, so that if you disrupt one of the parts, the insurance market will collapse.It’s going to be an interesting 4 years.

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