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ACA
aka ObamaRomneyCare has been a huge policy success helping to provide
healthcare to millions who were previously uninsured, all the while
dramatically slowing the rise in healthcare costs for the country.
Yet republican lyin and whinin has tarnished this success story. My favorite is how in polls Kynect (Kentucky's ACA exchange) is viewed quite positively whereas Obamacare is viewed negatively even thought they are the same thing. Of course McConnell lied during the debates claiming that they were different. This is how low the Tea Party republican party has sunk. I guess lyin to your constituency so that you can provide tax breaks to your wealthy benefactors is more important than providing healthcare to some low income kid whose Dad works in a coal mine.
Anyways Chuck Schumer ostensibly the Democratic Senator from NY last week said that Obamacare was a mistake because it is not politically popular. It should be mentioned that Medicare was not politically popular when it was first implemented.
Needless to say Professor Krugman obliterates Schumer in the op-ed piece today closing with the coup de grâce:
"If more Democrats had been willing to defend the best thing they’ve done in decades, rather than run away from their own achievement and implicitly concede that the smears against health reform were right, the politics of the issue might look very different today.
Finally, we need to ask, what is the purpose of winning elections? The answer, I hope, is to do good — not simply to set yourself up to win the next election. In 2009-10, Democrats had their first chance in a generation to do what we should have done three generations ago, and ensure adequate health care for all of our citizens. It would have been incredibly cynical not to have seized that opportunity, and Democrats should be celebrating the fact that they did the right thing."
Schumer should be ashamed of himself.
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Yet republican lyin and whinin has tarnished this success story. My favorite is how in polls Kynect (Kentucky's ACA exchange) is viewed quite positively whereas Obamacare is viewed negatively even thought they are the same thing. Of course McConnell lied during the debates claiming that they were different. This is how low the Tea Party republican party has sunk. I guess lyin to your constituency so that you can provide tax breaks to your wealthy benefactors is more important than providing healthcare to some low income kid whose Dad works in a coal mine.
Anyways Chuck Schumer ostensibly the Democratic Senator from NY last week said that Obamacare was a mistake because it is not politically popular. It should be mentioned that Medicare was not politically popular when it was first implemented.
Needless to say Professor Krugman obliterates Schumer in the op-ed piece today closing with the coup de grâce:
"If more Democrats had been willing to defend the best thing they’ve done in decades, rather than run away from their own achievement and implicitly concede that the smears against health reform were right, the politics of the issue might look very different today.
Finally, we need to ask, what is the purpose of winning elections? The answer, I hope, is to do good — not simply to set yourself up to win the next election. In 2009-10, Democrats had their first chance in a generation to do what we should have done three generations ago, and ensure adequate health care for all of our citizens. It would have been incredibly cynical not to have seized that opportunity, and Democrats should be celebrating the fact that they did the right thing."
Schumer should be ashamed of himself.
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Comments
+Bertrand Thompson: So,
if it's three in the household, it puts her farther under the poverty
line. Please explain how ObamaCare costs her anything, since she is not
eligible for it.
The
stress and strain is showing in what you are saying because you seem to
be living on your own propaganda. And that would be crazy, right.
Please stop worrying yourself anymore because life in the United States
will get along just fine without you. The Greek oracle Show is
unnecessary now because we the American people have computers for
information. We don't believes that the Ivy League elitist are always
one step ahead of everyone else anyway.
Something changed everyone mind about the Ivy Leagues social status now. Maybe it was how Barack Obama looked so incompetent running the White House in Washington DC, you never know?
Something changed everyone mind about the Ivy Leagues social status now. Maybe it was how Barack Obama looked so incompetent running the White House in Washington DC, you never know?
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