"Memo to GOP: The War over Big Government health care is over, and you lost"

[EriktheRed]

...a total of 125 million Americans getting their insurance from the federal government (or, in the case of Medicaid, a federal-state program). The current U.S. population is 318 million. That means that 39 percent of us, or just under two out of every five Americans, are recipients of government health insurance.

As a liberal, of course, I believe that’s a good thing, though just how good varies from program to program (I’ve spent enough time fighting with private insurance companies to wish I could be insured by the government). Conservatives, on the other hand, view this as a disaster. What they’ve only partly come to terms with is the fact that it’s going to be almost impossible for them to do anything about it.

It’s true that Republicans appear to have realized that while the ACA remains unpopular, the idea of repealing it is even less popular. Which is why, as the November election approaches, they’ve almost stopped trying to elevate the issue. As Sam Baker points out, Republicans passed on the opportunity to use the confirmation of Sylvia Burwell to be HHS secretary as a forum to relitigate the law, and the bills circulating around the Hill on health care are now more likely to be small-bore fixes. Notes Baker: “Anyone who’s been around Capitol Hill and health care for the past four years can see it — the anti-Obamacare fire just isn’t burning as hot as it used to.”

Memo to GOP: The War over Big Government health care is over, and you lost

 

[Stephanie]

we'll see about that

and the WashingtonCompost DNC pravda ain't they so Unbiased?

 

[Plasmaball]

we'll see about that

and the WashingtonCompost DNC pravda ain't they so Unbiased?

what did you copy and paste this from?

 

[blackhawk]

I bet the prohibition supporters said the same thing.

 

[Avatar4321]

As long as I breath it's not over

 

[AmericanFirst]

...a total of 125 million Americans getting their insurance from the federal government (or, in the case of Medicaid, a federal-state program). The current U.S. population is 318 million. That means that 39 percent of us, or just under two out of every five Americans, are recipients of government health insurance.

As a liberal, of course, I believe that’s a good thing, though just how good varies from program to program (I’ve spent enough time fighting with private insurance companies to wish I could be insured by the government). Conservatives, on the other hand, view this as a disaster. What they’ve only partly come to terms with is the fact that it’s going to be almost impossible for them to do anything about it.

It’s true that Republicans appear to have realized that while the ACA remains unpopular, the idea of repealing it is even less popular. Which is why, as the November election approaches, they’ve almost stopped trying to elevate the issue. As Sam Baker points out, Republicans passed on the opportunity to use the confirmation of Sylvia Burwell to be HHS secretary as a forum to relitigate the law, and the bills circulating around the Hill on health care are now more likely to be small-bore fixes. Notes Baker: “Anyone who’s been around Capitol Hill and health care for the past four years can see it — the anti-Obamacare fire just isn’t burning as hot as it used to.”

Memo to GOP: The War over Big Government health care is over, and you lost

Memo to the idiot left; NO IT"S NOT!!!!!!

 

[Erand7899]

As Churchill said, this is the end of the beginning, but just the beginning of the end. Most of the evils of Obamacare have been delayed until after the elections, but they will hit the American people in the pocketbook when they go into effect, and the American people are not going to like it.

It should take place about the same time as the costs of the new EPA regulations hit the pocketbook. At that time the voting public will be looking for a complete overhaul of government.

 

[Rotagilla]

...a total of 125 million Americans getting their insurance from the federal government (or, in the case of Medicaid, a federal-state program). The current U.S. population is 318 million. That means that 39 percent of us, or just under two out of every five Americans, are recipients of government health insurance.

As a liberal, of course, I believe that’s a good thing, though just how good varies from program to program (I’ve spent enough time fighting with private insurance companies to wish I could be insured by the government). Conservatives, on the other hand, view this as a disaster. What they’ve only partly come to terms with is the fact that it’s going to be almost impossible for them to do anything about it.

It’s true that Republicans appear to have realized that while the ACA remains unpopular, the idea of repealing it is even less popular. Which is why, as the November election approaches, they’ve almost stopped trying to elevate the issue. As Sam Baker points out, Republicans passed on the opportunity to use the confirmation of Sylvia Burwell to be HHS secretary as a forum to relitigate the law, and the bills circulating around the Hill on health care are now more likely to be small-bore fixes. Notes Baker: “Anyone who’s been around Capitol Hill and health care for the past four years can see it — the anti-Obamacare fire just isn’t burning as hot as it used to.”

Memo to GOP: The War over Big Government health care is over, and you lost

As the dysfunction of the system increases and it's real effects on people and the economy evolve, it will collapse...prohibition lasted 14 years...slavery was abolished in 1865....bad laws eventually are overturned.

 

[Plasmaball]

As long as I breath it's not over

nobody cares, you are irrelevant

 

[bedowin62]

record welfare and food stamps in the EIGHTH-STRAIGHT YEAR OF PROGRESSIVE MAJORITY RULE in the USA

you're right left-wing nutjob

WE ALL LOST when you elected an inept community organizer

 

[Darkwind]

As long as I breath it's not over

nobody cares, you are irrelevant

Who are you again?

Talk about not relevant...

The removal of Obama care will be over when its has been removed from the law.

 

[AmericanFirst]

As long as I breath it's not over

nobody cares, you are irrelevant

Libtards are irrelevant.

 

[Plasmaball]

As long as I breath it's not over

nobody cares, you are irrelevant

Who are you again?

Talk about not relevant...

The removal of Obama care will be over when its has been removed from the law.

which it wont....So good luck

 

[EriktheRed]

we'll see about that

and the WashingtonCompost DNC pravda ain't they so Unbiased?

It's on OpEd anyway, you moron.

 

[EriktheRed]

I bet the prohibition supporters said the same thing.

Dream on.

 

[EriktheRed]

From the same article:

But the story is bigger than all of this. Republicans may have to accept that while we may not have the single-payer system liberals want, government still dominates American health care, and that isn’t going to change.

It isn’t just that Republicans could stage another fifty ACA repeal votes in the House and accomplish just as little as the last 50 repeal votes did. Rather, it’s that even if Republicans took back the White House and both houses of Congress, moving people off their government insurance would be next to impossible.

 

[TemplarKormac]

we'll see about that

and the WashingtonCompost DNC pravda ain't they so Unbiased?

It's on OpEd anyway, you moron.

So, why are we supposed to take an opinion as a statement of fact? That's the whole thing with you liberals; 'another liberal said it, therefore it must be true!' How gullible can you be?

 

[Rozman]

Like John Belushi said in animal house....
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor....

Hell no.

 

[EriktheRed]

we'll see about that

and the WashingtonCompost DNC pravda ain't they so Unbiased?

It's on OpEd anyway, you moron.

So, why are we supposed to take an opinion as a statement of fact? That's the whole thing with you liberals. Another liberal said it, therefore it must be true. How gullible can you be?

Maybe because he makes a good argument backed up with facts and not wingnut talking points?

 

[bedowin62]

we'll see about that

and the WashingtonCompost DNC pravda ain't they so Unbiased?

It's on OpEd anyway, you moron.

So, why are we supposed to take an opinion as a statement of fact? That's the whole thing with you liberals. Another liberal said it, therefore it must be true. How gullible can you be?

The first lies left-wing nutjobs tell are to themselves; and they believe them. what do you expect but stupidity from idiots that call record welfare and food stamps "forward progress"???