The Repeal Swindle Republicans are pretending to support Obamacare’s goals, but they don’t
For years now, undeterred by an imposing level of conservative schadenfreude, a handful of us have argued that the introduction of Affordable Care Act benefits in January would flip the politics of Obamacare, and the GOPs repeal platform would collapse.
Its April now and that worm is turning before our eyes, both on on Capitol Hill and in states across the country.
Republicans have replaced an unabashed full repeal! mantra with a deluge of weasel words meant to conceal the fact that repeal is still the beginning and end of their health-care reform agenda. Its still the goaltheyre just a little ashamed of it now. And that places an onus on Dems (and reporters and anyone else who believes politicians should own the consequences of their policies) to be extremely explicit about the benefits Obamacare is conferring, and what an unvarnished rendering of GOP health policy would really look like.
More here: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117402/republican-position-obamacare-makes-no-sense-anymore
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