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groundloop

(11,510 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 10:09 AM Jan 2017

Replace Obamacare with "market based polices that put patients first" it's time to hit the phones!!!

My congress critter wrote:

@RepTomGraves 11 HOURS AGO
Repealing #Obamacare doesn’t mean we’re pulling the rug out from under anyone. We'll pass market-based policies that put patients first.

First, the fact that he even mentions 'not pulling the rug out from under anyone" tells me that the repubs are starting to feel some heat. Let's get on the phones and set their answering machines on fire telling them that it's exactly their 'market based policies' that brought about the need for reform.

Start calling and don't let up. Keep the pressure on these bastards.

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Replace Obamacare with "market based polices that put patients first" it's time to hit the phones!!! (Original Post) groundloop Jan 2017 OP
The ACA -IS- market based. You and I know that. Graves should know that. I'd hammer him KittyWampus Jan 2017 #1
START HERE and kick and rec both this thread and the linked one: Squinch Jan 2017 #2
Repeal it and replace it with same thing the same day. Dave Starsky Jan 2017 #3
Leave it alone and change the name MurrayDelph Jan 2017 #5
The mandate will stay but the protections will disappear. NightWatcher Jan 2017 #4
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
1. The ACA -IS- market based. You and I know that. Graves should know that. I'd hammer him
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 10:12 AM
Jan 2017

on either being uniformed of that fact or misleading.

The ACA -IS- the Republican plan.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
3. Repeal it and replace it with same thing the same day.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:20 AM
Jan 2017

Name it Trumpcare. Tout it as His Orange Majesty's major triumph to protect the healthcare of 30 million Americans.

Trump will be happy.
The American people will be happy.

No one will fucking notice.

MurrayDelph

(5,291 posts)
5. Leave it alone and change the name
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 01:14 PM
Jan 2017

We'll even let you call it the MMACA (Much More Affordable Care Act).

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
4. The mandate will stay but the protections will disappear.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:25 AM
Jan 2017

I'll be fined if I don't get it, but it will do me no good to have it. Health Insurance companies bribe repukes too.

I'll go even further to say that I expect to see legislation barring hospitals from accepting patients who do not have their very expensive insurance cards on them when they show at the admissions desk or ER.

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