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In reply to the discussion: UPDATED 3 X: Obamacare wins [View all]tuhaybey
(76 posts)What the ACA does, at its core, is take healthcare policies that the liberal states have had for years and roll them out nation-wide. You can see how dramatically lifespans in the states that have those policies differ from the lifespans in states that do not- http://politicsthatwork.com/graphs/life-expectancy-by-state
That's hundreds of thousands of lives being lost prematurely in red states. As easy as it is for Republican politicians to lay out ideological rants against the ACA in campaign ads, it is a very different thing to actually pull the trigger on that many lives. To their credit, Kennedy and Roberts are not THAT far gone. Even the Republican politicians who have always ranted about how much they hate the ACA were already talking about how to extend it if the Supreme Court actually struck the subsidies... They like talking about repealing the ACA a lot more than they would actually like doing that to so many people.