Repealing Obamacare is not going to happen, even if the Republicans win the Senate in November and even if they win the White House in 2016.
Organizing for Action is challenging people to contact their members of Congress and to Tweet why Obamacare should not be repealed. In other words, incur the wrath of Americans who are benefiting from the ACA at your peril. Weather you agree or not, they have a winning strategy. Regardless of what the polls say, millions of Americans are or will be hooked on the Law.
Do you think Obamacare should be repealed?
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Repeal and start over ASAP.
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Republicans have had about five years to formulate and present a better solution. So far they have produced nothing. That is hardly ASAP. Republicans oppose everything and promote nothing. Without five years of Republican obstructionism, the PPACA would be twice as successful as it already is. Twenty-four (approx.) Republican governors have denied their citizens affordable healthcare insurance by refusing to embrace Medicaid expansion. That is immoral. People are dying every day in those states because of people like you and their blood is on your hands.
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Here is an example of the faults in crafting the law. It is actually possible to be too poor to get subsidized coverage under the ACA while at the same time not being eligible for Medicaid. This results now from states not expanding Medicaid, but the pre-Obamacare rules are what excluded single poor people not caring for children from Medicaid. Five million people are affected. I agree this is not acceptable to defend an ideology. It also reflects poor crafting of the law.
Under the pre-Obamacare rules, eligibility for the program typically was limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents caring for children at home, and adults with disabilities. Without the law’s expansion, an adult without a disability who isn’t living with their children is not eligible for Medicaid.
For those who don’t qualify for Medicaid coverage, Obamacare offers tax credits for private health plans sold through the law’s health insurance exchange marketplaces. But those subsidies are available only to those making between the poverty level, or about $11,500 for an individual, and four times that amount. In states not expanding Medicaid, people who earn less than poverty wages get nothing.
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yes, agreed i have indicated this now for close to a year in a number of comments to this blog regarding the AHC. Repeal will be virtually impossible. The unfortunate “tipping point” on this occurred when the dems controlled both the house and senate and the bill (having such tremendous economic and social-political implications ) passed with one of the smallest margins ever…no bi-partisanship here at all.
no doubt many of the poor (12.5 million) will benefit from having no coverage to having coverage.But at what price to others? IMHO……I think the AHC is nothing more than another semi- entitlement program (for many) , economic re-distribution/slight of hand tied to and potentially impacted by immigration reform and the current obsession with “equality everything”.It’s about getting the vote.
I understand the need for health care reform……but I don’t think any “fixes”will truly control costs.
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I have the savings from the PPACA incorporated into my proposed 2015 budget proposal so let’s not repeal it.
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I would not repeal, but there are many changes that should be incorporated into the Law to make it better for everyone
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I agree with that.
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