Saturday, September 28, 2013

Obamacare 1

I have paid close attention to the vitriol spewing forth from the likes of Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and the Louis Gohmerts of the House railing against the ACA and not once have I heard even a remote suggestion of how the law should be changed or what they propose should replace it. Millions of people go without health insurance or have access to meaningful healthcare. Seventeen percent of our GDP goes to healthcare to the ruin of our economy and beyond railing against the law not one offers a suggestion of what they propose in its stead. Part of their problem may be that the ACA, in its current form, is modeled after the last and only suggestion the GOP made throughout this debate. Rather than the universal healthcare plan endorsed by most Democrats and a significant number of prominent economists we have capitulation by House Democrats and the President to the plan proposed by the Republican leadership...the very plan they now condemn. Perhaps they are unable to offer an alternative idea because what we now have IS their best and only idea?!

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