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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 02:08 PM Jan 2017

Republicans dont want to hurt real America. By repealing Obamacare, they will.

Let’s try to get this straight. Donald Trump campaigned as the champion of lower-paid working people who deserve better than they have. Republicans have spent the Obama presidency complaining about high deficits and promising to cut them.

And whenever liberals put forward major reforms, conservatives say: No, no, you can’t make radical changes on the basis of narrow partisan majorities. Let’s take it slow and be very careful. They love to cite Thomas Jefferson’s dictum, “Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.”

In moving with reckless speed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are violating every one of these supposed principles. That’s because the principle that really matters to them is the one they try to shroud behind happy talk about efficiency and compassion: They want to spend a whole lot less money helping Americans get health coverage.

This needs to be made very clear as their throw-people-over-the-side juggernaut rolls forward. Any vote to repeal Obamacare before there is a comprehensive alternative on the table that all can study, understand and debate is a vote to deprive many of their health insurance. It is a vote to make the lives of millions of Americans demonstrably worse.

And a bunch of politicians who regularly accuse their progressive opponents of being “out of touch” with the “real America” need to be exposed for what they are: a comfortable, affluent and privileged coterie that does not need to spend a single second worrying about whether their kids can see a doctor or whether they will get the care they need if a health disaster strikes.

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Republicans dont want to hurt real America. By repealing Obamacare, they will. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP
They don't care who they hurt, as long as they win. Iggo Jan 2017 #1
This whole ACA repeal is all about Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. This whole ACA repeal is all about
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 02:16 PM
Jan 2017

a Wealth Transfer to the 1%ers who financed the Republican Candidates reelections.

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