mooby
03-24-2017, 04:22 PM
House Republican leaders abruptly pull their rewrite of the nation’s health-care law (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republican-leaders-abruptly-pull-their-rewrite-of-the-nation%e2%80%99s-health-care-law/ar-BByG2V1?li=BBnb7Kz)
“So much about political power is about perception. And if the perception is that you can’t get your first big initiative done, then that hurts the perceptions down the road about your ability to get other big things done,” Byrne said in an interview before the decision.
I long for the days when making bills was about doing what's best for the majority of the population, not about perception that you suck at doing your job.
Chico23231
03-24-2017, 05:15 PM
Obamacare has already failed. Most Insurance companies have left..premiums have risen...we need to come together and find a system that works. Obamacare didn't, this feeble attempt didn't appear as a viable replacement. Hopefully this spurns some ideas to find something better. But let's be honest, Obamacare was a disaster
ACA is still better than the mess Trumpcare would have been. Big time fail on their part. They should have taken their time and come up with a viable solution vs rushing a half assed fix.
Obamacare has already failed. Most Insurance companies have left..premiums have risen...we need to come together and find a system that works. Obamacare didn't, this feeble attempt didn't appear as a viable replacement. Hopefully this spurns some ideas to find something better. But let's be honest, Obamacare was a disaster
It's far from perfect but it hasn't failed. It's a success for many people.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/21/obamacare-unheralded-success/montTA45UvggSgwA0Myd8K/story.html
^ Medicaid expansion was definitely huge, so was covering pre-existing conditions. Yes premiums and deductibles are an issue, but calling the ACA as a whole a disaster is just absurd. Hopefully this idea of repealing/replacing is truly dead. Move on to re-working it.
mooby
03-26-2017, 07:17 PM
^ Medicaid expansion was definitely huge, so was covering pre-existing conditions. Yes premiums and deductibles are an issue, but calling the ACA as a whole a disaster is just absurd. Hopefully this idea of repealing/replacing is truly dead. Move on to re-working it.
There's no room for grey, only black and white. It's either good or bad, there's no way it could be good for some people while bad for others.
NC_Skins
03-27-2017, 12:14 PM
So how's that Obamacare repeal and replace coming along playboi?
:laughing2
The hilarious part in all of it is, he actually blamed the Democrats for it not passing the House. :laughing-
I told somebody prior that he'd blame the democrats if it doesn't pass.
He's all about the blame game. Anyone else getting tired of all this winning? lol
NC_Skins
03-27-2017, 12:18 PM
Obamacare has already failed. Most Insurance companies have left..premiums have risen...we need to come together and find a system that works. Obamacare didn't, this feeble attempt didn't appear as a viable replacement. Hopefully this spurns some ideas to find something better. But let's be honest, Obamacare was a disaster
There are two main issues with Obamacare. One was the mandate. The second is that it did absolutely nothing to curtail rising healthcare costs.
Obamacare isn't the reason insurance rates are rising. In fact, if you look at premiums, the rates were rising a lot faster (as a percentage) prior to Obamacare. So if anything, Obamacare slowed that down a bit. The only solution to healthcare costs is having a universal healthcare system. Every other civilized country has one. The problem is we have a bunch of greedy assholes that continue to convince their ignorant base that socialized medicine is a bad thing.