Republican fuss over AHA

[Sandy]

The AHA, dubbed "Obamacare" was billed as socialized medicine. The extremist tea partiers rudely disrupted town hall meetings and tried to coerce and threaten Republicans with primary opposition for any support of it but it passed both houses of Congress. Fail.

The tea party extremists then promised that the conservative Supreme Court would overturn it. But the Supreme Court ruled it completely constitutional. Fail.

The tea party extremists have initiated over 40 waste of time votes in the House to attempt to get the AHA repealed. Fail.

The tea party extremists have shut down the government to coerce Congress into delaying, or defunding, the AHA. But the AHA goes into effect October 1, 2013, with millions getting insurance on the first day through the exchanges. The government is shut down, but the AHA is not defunded. Fail.

The insurance exchanges and coverage regulations and price controls of premiums (the 80% rule) along with most of the rest of the AHA comes straight out of Mitt Romney's Massachusetts state health care plan, and is almost identical to what Republicans have supported and put forth since Hillary Clinton came up with a proposal back in 1993. If the Republican leadership thinks that people aren't going to see what is going on now as political obstructionism, and hand the President and his party a blank check with a Democratic majority in the house, and a filibuster proof senate come 2014, they are in for a rude awakening.

[KeithE]

[William Thornton]

We lost. Win some elections then stop obamacare.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

[KeithE]