Commentary: 'Obamacare' will be good for the U.S.

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/02/154408/commentary-obamacare-will-be-good.html#storylink=omni_popular

Posted on Monday, July 2, 2012Modified Friday, June 29, 2012

James Werrell | The Rock Hill Herald

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina is not happy about the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as "Obamacare."

Soon after the ruling was announced, Wilson spit out an email caterwauling about the “government health care takeover bill.” He recalls how “the president and his liberal allies shoved an extremely unpopular 2,000-page bill through both chambers of Congress.” He rails that “we should have health care based on a doctor-patient relationship rather than a politician-patient mandate.”

You remember Wilson. During a 2009 joint session of Congress where President Barack Obama was outlining his health care plan, Wilson pointed at the president and shouted, “You lie!”

Well, in this case, Wilson is doing the, uh, dissembling.

The Affordable Care Act is not a government takeover of health care. It was expressly designed so that Americans would buy insurance from private insurers unless they are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

[uponit7771]

1. Obamacare goes one step further by allowing states to implement single payer and subsidizing it...

...with federal funds..

After states start seeing the savings they'll go along and our HC system will start to look like the provincial one that the UK implements

[emulatorloo]

2. This is an excellent point.

[mopinko]

4. savings plus economic development.

[SidDithers]

3. DU rec...nt

Sid

[lark]

5. Repugs lying?

Why, horrors, that would never happen, would it? (miss the sarcasm smilie)

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The rethugs ALWAYS leave out the insurance companies

as the "middleman". Always. It's breath-taking how their talking points purposely fail to mention the insurance bureaucracy that currently decides on the care or non-care vs any doctor.

[Swede Atlanta]

7. My fear is the Democrats will abandon this opportunity to educate the public....

Opponents of the ACA are already on the attack with broadcast, online and print campaign.

If Obama and the Democrats fail to respond and actually tell people what this bill does and what it doesn't do, I'm afraid the election will become a referendum on the ACA and not on the overall vision of America.

If the Rs can frame this as an election about "freedom" versus "government mandates", Obama will lose.

We have no time to spare. I hope someone is developing a strategy to counter the misinformation from the right.

[xtraxritical]

9. Excellent point Swede.

[AndySipowicz]

8. will

Congress and their families be subject to the law?

[NNN0LHI]

11. Yes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002892526

[TheKentuckian]

12. Yup, and to do it you'd have to make them exempt from the income requirements

so they come in and buy (I assume) unsubsidized but at exchange rates platinum plans and life goes on.

On second thought, I would tend to bet they actually carry their Federal Employee cost support and maybe pay like nothing or a little over. At worst, it is the same but it is probably a little better deal.

Unless we can all get platinum plans for a fraction of our incomes (especially when the pay is just a piece of one's income anyway) then we aren't ever really going to be in the "same boat", if it matters then it is way down the list if concerns. It seems like a visceral but ultimately pointless focus created by unwillingness to accept on some level, that no matter how you arrange the room it is about connections and the control of money. Everything else is window dressing to try to paper that over.

[Brooklyn Dame]

10. Agreed; hopefully Dems won't miss this chance to make sure correct information gets out!

The Repubs are gearing up for battle and their myths and lies need to be blocked with truth.

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/06/obamacare-is-the-law-of-the-land-the-battle-begins/

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/07/just-doing-our-job-for-once/