I'd like to break this up a little to ask specific questions about what you wrote here...
Very true. I have long known the implementation of the ACA was to crack open the door to healthcare reform with much tweaking to follow.
'Crack the door open' to what exactly? What is it you want to see out of this disaster of a law? When you say reform, it seems to me that is all too often used as a catch all nothing burger phrase. Please explain. Also, on the 'tweaking' aspect...What do you want to see 'tweaked' to make this law Cap'n America approved? I mean, after 2,000 plus pages, shouldn't you have every wish you want by now?
It certainly wasn't going to get done any other way.
What is "it"? And don't give me the word "reform"...There is an end goal of this crap, and I want to know what that is.
They have been dragging their feet on healthcare reform, like immigration, and left to traditional devices the door would have never been opened.
Again, those "traditional" devices you speak of are called the Constitutional process. So can I take by this statement here that you are on board with conning the American people and shoving horrible legislation down their throats whether they like it or not? Constitution be damned I guess, right?
The president, having been elected to do things like healthcare reform (and immigration reform,) he had to do something.
Aw BS! Nothing was a crisis no matter how you want to take that complete lie and run with it.
Congress surely was not. In a perfect world, democrats and republicans would have come together, hammered something out and put it on the president's desk for him to sign.
You don't believe that for a second. You've already laid out that you stand behind totalitarian rule of one party as long as you agree with that party ideologically, to trash the constitutional process and unilaterally ram laws like this down our throats in the middle of the night on party line, bribed to pass vote.
But the collective mindset of the GOP to **** block the president on any and every thing, good or bad, made that procedure all but impossible.
Oh give me a break...I remember a time during GWB, when Republicans controlled the house, senate, and presidency, you railed against that type of oligarchy, and agreed that divided government was what you wanted to see. Now you you whine because there is divided government, and poor wittle Obama can't just get his way with a lay down, rubber stamp congress...I feel for ya. Not.
One of the things I like about the ACA was the mandate for the citizen to step up, be responsible, and take care of their healthcare. I supported it because I was tired of footing the entire bill for the irresponsible people expecting the gov't to pay their healthcare bills with my tax dollars.
But, it is clear that this mandate aspect was a lie. It was always set up to transfer from the young and healthy, to the older and sicker people, not to mention, that the law was designed to move as many people as possible to medicaid thereby making you and I responsible for 100% of these individuals health care costs...So you want to talk about "irresponsible people" making you pay, this just made it worse.
But the big business interests, and their influence on our elected officials, fought it tooth and nail. They still are. Too late though. It's here to stay.
Nonsense. This is your wish, but the experts say that when the mandate fails, so to does the law. You can't force people to buy something they don't have the money to buy. Deductibles are going up, premiums are going up, all in the face of another lie told by Obama, that this would reduce our premium cost of an average of $2500. per family. When the courts strike down this crap, and they will, now that Gruber has shed light on the lying nature of how this law was not only crafted, but sold, or should I say forced on the American people, it will fail...Now, what that means, as far as what will replace it? I don't know.
Now it's time to start tweaking it to make it better.
What exactly is "better" in your mind? Total Government health care? Medicare for all? and along with it, taxes that are approaching 50% to cover it for the middle class in the Federal brackets?
Nah, maybe you'd like a utopia where Big Government just takes your money, and provides for you, but not me brother....I prefer to make my own decisions.
