It’s here to stay. Well, until it’s replaced by single-payer.
Despite the negative feelings about how it is being implemented, the first candidate that even hints at some sort of repeal is going to tank.
There is no fix, because the original proposal was a lie, and it had to be. You cannot offer the truth, because the truth would yield a “hell no” response. It had to be a bait-and-switch.
The original premise was this dire need for affordable healthcare by 48 million uninsured Americans. Their proposal has maybe 5% at best signing up, with a large majority of them being previously uninsured and Medicaid.
The truth is, if you want to offer the healthcare Obama claims, you have to raise taxes on EVERYONE, and that is DOA when it comes to votes.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
There is no fix, because the original proposal was a lie, and it had to be. You cannot offer the truth, because the truth would yield a “hell no” response. It had to be a bait-and-switch.
The original premise was this dire need for affordable healthcare by 48 million uninsured Americans. Their proposal has maybe 5% at best signing up, with a large majority of them being previously uninsured and Medicaid.
The truth is, if you want to offer the healthcare Obama claims, you have to raise taxes on EVERYONE, and that is DOA when it comes to votes.
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48 million represented by a few sob stories. The actual numbers don’t really matter since the average person has no concept of what it means.
- 7 billion population of earth
- over 1 billion in china
- 22m unemployed in US
- over 1 billion below poverty in world
- 320m US population
- 17 trillion in debt
- Many individuals worth over 1 billion
48 million doesn’t hold any shock value on its own
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
There is no fix, because the original proposal was a lie, and it had to be. You cannot offer the truth, because the truth would yield a “hell no” response. It had to be a bait-and-switch.
The original premise was this dire need for affordable healthcare by 48 million uninsured Americans. Their proposal has maybe 5% at best signing up, with a large majority of them being previously uninsured and Medicaid.
The truth is, if you want to offer the healthcare Obama claims, you have to raise taxes on EVERYONE, and that is DOA when it comes to votes.
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48 million represented by a few sob stories. The actual numbers don’t really matter since the average person has no concept of what it means.
- 7 billion population of earth
- over 1 billion in china
- 22m unemployed in US
- over 1 billion below poverty in world
- 320m US population
- 17 trillion in debt
- Many individuals worth over 1 billion
48 million doesn’t hold any shock value on its own
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The 48 million becomes even smaller when less than 5% of that number signed up, and that is counting those who already had insurance and lost it, plus the Medicaid signups.
Maybe the rush for healthcare was more a fabrication.