RyanCare: Pi$$ Poor Planning Produces Pi$$ Poor Performance - the Debacle, Part 3 - Granite Grok

RyanCare: Pi$$ Poor Planning Produces Pi$$ Poor Performance – the Debacle, Part 3

This post title DOES says it all for me (sarcasm at all the other faux outrage):

How DARE House Freedom Caucus hold GOP accountable to its promises!?

End Result?  Republicans wasted seven years in uttering hot air instead of doing the actual work – this bill failed their rhetoric. This bill also failed the Trust factor – not enough Republican Trusted their own Party to do the right thing after this bill (I don’t Trust them either – past performance has proved it).  Previous versions of this (2010, 2015) would have worked FAR better but guess what – they knew that Obama would veto it.  They knew he’d cover their butts – pure political theater.  Now when it REALLY counted, they put their seats first and their campaign promise to repeal Obamacare WAAYYYY back in their rear view mirrors. The Democrats were willing (and did) to bet their seats – the Republicans were too scared to do it.

Betcha this will boomerang on them BIGLY come 2018 unless they actually take the time to craft a bill that rips the guts and heart out of Obamacare instead of just taking out taxes.

  • Did they take out the “Essential Mandates”? No – they tried to outsource it off to the States and let them take the blame for doing the definitions.

  • Did they remove the Individual Mandate? No – they outsourced it to the insurance companies with the 30% surcharge if you are without insurance for 63 days.
  • Did they strip out the guts to lessen the command and control system, a socialistic system, that IS Obamacare?  Nope.
  • Did they take out the myriad of governmental entities that choose “what is best for us” instead of going Free Market and letting US choose for ourselves?  Hah – Republicans just proved they like the former just as much as the Democrats – like that old say, they just believe they can manage it better.

The Republicans had better start doing one thing and doing that REALLY fast – look into the nearest mirror and figure out WHO they are, WHAT are their principles, and IF they have the courage to be what they’ve told us they are if they think anyone except the non-thinkers are going to vote for them again.  You can’t deliver?  You don’t deserve your salaries that WE pay for.

I’m not holding my breath.   Let’s see what new HHS Secretary Tom Price will do from the inside with the “the Secretary shall” in redefining the current definitions and regulations.  But after this, I’m still not holding my breath.

  • First the NH Republicans, after campaigning against Obamacare’s Expanded Medicare, make it the Law of the Land here in NH.
  • Second, the DC Republicans, after campaigning against Obamacare itself, keep it as the Law of the Land here in the USA

See the pattern? Go ahead, GOP, try to convince me that you aren’t the Junior Party of the Welfare State.  From here, it looks like the UniParty.

UPDATE: This from US Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL) does a good job mirroring my thoughts (reformatted, emphasis mine):

“First, I believe it is a horrible replacement bill,” Brooks declared, when Marlow asked why so many Republicans support a bill that seems to fall far short of GOP promises to repeal Obamacare.

“Second, in my judgment, the reason is there are a lot of Republican politicians who, back home, wanted to pretend that they were in favor of Obamacare repeal in order to win their primaries, when, in fact, they weren’t,” he contended. “And now we’re to the stage where votes count. If we can get bills to the president’s desk, there’s a good chance that they will be signed. We are suddenly finding that a lot of Republican congressmen, maybe they weren’t really for repeal of Obamacare in the first place.”

 “That’s why we have a bill that is referred to as ‘Obamacare-Lite’ or ‘Obamacare 2.0’  – because it does not repeal Obamacare,” he explained.

…“One is we were sent to Washington, D.C., to help struggling American families with healthcare costs, not pass legislation that’s going to continue to increase the cost of health care, which is what this bill does,” he said. “What we should be doing is implementing cost containment measures,” Brooks argued. “We should be repealing the parts of Obamacare that have forced these skyrocketing premiums on struggling American families, rather than keep them in this new bill.”

“In addition to that, we should inject new provisions that will force competition into the marketplace,” he continued. “By way of example, we should be forcing interstate health insurance competition that, in turn, will force lower insurance prices, as health insurance companies from around the country compete for a customer base. We should be repealing antitrust exemptions that suppress competition, that create oligopolies and monopolies that, in turn, drive up healthcare costs.”

And this must HURT A LOT:

“The second reason may even be bigger than the first, and that is that Obamacare 2.0 is the largest Republican welfare program in the history of the Republican Party. That has a lot of implications, cascading effects,” Brooks warned.

“By way of example, it undermines the work ethic. It encourages more and more Americans to live off the hard work of others. Obamacare 2.0, because of this welfare provision over time, is going to dramatically increase the need to raise taxes or borrow more money to pay for, if past experiences are any indication, what will be escalating welfare costs. As you know, struggling American families cannot afford more taxes, and America cannot afford more debt. It’s already at $20 trillion. We’re already being warned that we’re heading into insolvency and bankruptcy. We need to heed those warnings, rather than destroy what it took more than two centuries of American ancestors to build.”

“In addition to that, there’s a huge political ramification, and you see it a little bit in the debate that we’ve had so far. By way of example, if this bill passes with this huge welfare program, all of a sudden, you are converting tens of millions of voters who now are self-reliant into welfare dependents – thus making elections about who can deliver the most welfare for me to help me with my health insurance premium,” he said.

“That’s going to have a huge electoral impact. That’s going to turn America over to the Bernie Sanders socialist wing of American society. Quite frankly, it may be the death knell for the free enterprise system that has helped make America the greatest economic power in the world,” he warned.

 

 

 

 

 

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