Dems: ‘Obamacare’ Will Thrive Like Social Security And Medicare

[ProSense]

Dems: ‘Obamacare’ Will Thrive Like Social Security And Medicare

Sahil Kapur

Ahead of a Republican-led House vote Wednesday to try to repeal ‘Obamacare’ for the 33rd time, House Democrats expressed a growing sense of optimism that their biggest achievement in a generation is here to stay, invoking the lessons of history.

“This (law) is alive and well and has a big future,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told TPM in her Capitol Hill office, during a discussion with a handful of reporters and bloggers. “I knew it would pass, I knew it would be upheld and I know it will survive.”

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“I think what has occurred was entirely predictable,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) told TPM. “This was a massive overhaul of over one-seventh of the national economy. And the history of major things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid is that it takes time to sink in. Social Security was not wildly popular at the time. And Medicaid was not adopted by all the states until 1982.”

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Rep. Jim McDermott (WA), the only physician in the Democratic conference, recalled that era. “If you look at Medicare — I was in medical school in 1963 just before it was passed. The American Medical Association … said over and over again, this is the end of medicine in this country, it’s socialism, oh it’s communism, it’s terrible,” he said. “But it went through.”

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/democrats-obamacare-social-security-medicare.php

This will be the 33rd vote to repeal it?

Where the hell are the jobs?

[BlueCaliDem]

1. I swear! Typical Republican! These people are a bunch of sore losers and crybabies.

And they're perfect examples of the people who support them - sore losers and crybabies.