McConnell Now Wants to Fix Obamacare

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/11/07/mcconnell-now-wants-to-fix-obamacare/

November 7, 2018 at 12:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 162 Comments

"SNIP....

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called for “working on a bipartisan basis to address shortcomings in the Affordable Care Act as Democrats prepare to take control of the House,” the Washington Post reports.

“His comments marked a sharp departure from Republican efforts during the past two years to repeal former president Barack Obama’s signature health-care law while the party controlled both chambers of Congress and held the presidency.”

.....SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. Never let the public forget how many times the GOP tried to trash Obama care.n/t

[BadMachines]

6. Prepare to dive deeper into the revisionist history era nt

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Charlie Brown, meet Lucy

[Delmette2.0]

13. That is exactly what I was thinking.

[malaise]

20. Perfect

[dawg day]

3. Thank you, Mitch, but we don't need your 'help'.

This is just more of the GOP's pretense of caring. It does, at least, mean he's been beaten like a rug.

[DBoon]

4. Does he mean like how you would "fix" a male dog?

nt

[rurallib]

5. exact thought I had

gentle Uncle Mitchy wants to take his good doggy to the vet!

[rurallib]

7. Let the Dems propose the solutions and then the repugs

can vote 'yea' or 'nay'

[DetlefK]

28. Nononononononononono. Exactly the other way round. Rs go first with their ideas.

If the Democrats go first, the Republicans will simply talk about how awful those ideas are.

Remember during the Obama-administration when the Republicans lamented that Obama must cut social-security?
He made proposal after proposal and the Republicans did nothing but trash-talking his ideas.
Until one day he demanded that THEY make proposals what to cut.
And all of a sudden they were out of words.

[rurallib]

29. right you are

[eleny]

8. Sure - reverse all legislation that weakened the ACA

Let Pelosi and Schumer know when you're ready to do that, m-m-mkay?

[maxrandb]

22. Legislation AND Executive Orders AND Regulations

Hey Mitch, you and the orange shitgibbon first.

Oh, I forgot to add...Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian shit!!!

[eleny]

24. +1

[struggle4progress]

9. .

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. first time seeing Mitch wearing a hat

[alwaysinasnit]

10. A big "FU" to Mitchy.

[Midnightwalk]

11. as Democrats prepare to take control of the House

Not after. Do they have time to do another repeal vote?

[gratuitous]

12. You've been trying to dismantle it for eight years, and failed

Sure, Republicans have inflicted some damage to the ACA, particularly in making Medicare expansion subject to each state's option and fighting against the individual mandate which is one of the mechanisms for spreading the cost among the largest pool of participants. But the essential soundness of the original legislation has stood up to the worst Republicans could do to it.

States that initially refused Medicare expansion (each and every one of which were under Republican control) have seen their own citizens rise up against their legislatures and their governors to demand the Medicare expansion. Idaho voted to take the free federal money yesterday to take better care of its citizens. By participating in the expansion, the sickest citizens get immediate access to treatment, and the expensive initial outlay is absorbed by the entire country through the federal government. As participation in the program grows and the costs and risks are addressed and ameliorated, each state takes on the cost of keeping its own citizens healthy.

People like that. And they don't like what Republicans have been doing to them.

Now McConnell decides that maybe the way Kentucky and other Republican-dominated states did it isn't such a good idea and he wants to . . . well, what does he want to do? Why don't you lay your cards on the table, you blood-gargling psychopath, and we'll see if the Democrats want to play ball on your terms.

[Johonny]

14. the house will almost certainly pass a fix within the first 100 days

Let's see if Mitch runs to embrace it. My guess is he won't.

[bluestarone]

15. Same guess here!!

[ffr]

16. Too late you scumbag! We know you for your true colors.

Immediate retirement is too good for the likes of you. You have nothing but contempt for democrats. We have nothing but the same now for you.

[OnDoutside]

17. I said earlier today, that if McConnell was clever, he would agree to push through the required

fixes (there is already a bipartisan bill ready to go, iirc co-sponsored by Patty Murray), even in the lame duck, and then claim the credit. Fighting the popular ACA is a killer for them in 2020, as it was in 2018.

[Alhena]

18. Got a hunch his "fix" will help the wealthy

[In It to Win It]

19. He's clever... and he's lying.

[drray23]

27. I'm not sure he is lying.

It nat well be in the GOP interest to do this. The constant attempts to repeal or otherwise handicap the ACA backfired spectacularly. That was the no1 issue people listed at the exit polls. McConnel may want to try to put this out of play for 2020. Since we control the house he can do it now and also claim bipartisanship. I would not be surprised if this happens and Trump signs it.

[applegrove]

21. They'll make a deal: fix it and name it the Republican Care Act.

[ck4829]

25. LOL

[Buckeyeblue]

26. He'll have his chance next year....

Mitch is like an old housecat. He's all purrs when it's his idea. But he is liable to piss in the corner if it's not.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. He Does Know He Doesn't Run The House, Right?

And he knows that his slimy partners over there don't run it anymore either, right?