Weeper Boehner, and plastic face McConnell really looked pathetic on those shows on Sunday. I remember after the first repeal vote in the House last year Boehner was asked what their plan was, and his reply was. "We're going to have a meeting about that"...LOL.
They have no intention if in power to spend anytime replacing the ACA if they can make it all go away. Meanwhile independents approval of the ACA has jumped 11% since the decision. Plus the president is still leading Romney in all the swing states. Seems folks aren't beleiving the same old tired rhetoric from 2 years ago nor Rush Limbaugh who wailed to his ditto heads that it was "the largest tax increase in the world".
Republicans Start to Panic as ObamaCare Reaches 50% Approval
ProudProgressive
2012/07/02 23:26:12
My apologies. The title is a little misleading. To say that the Republicans are STARTING to panic now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's constitutionality has been protected would ignore the last three years of deliberate and profound Right Wing disinformation on the subject. Remember, they were repeat winners of Politifact's Lie of the Year Award for "Death Panels" and "Government Takeover of Health Care." This year's early entrant seems to be "largest tax increase in American history", even though it's actually the largest middle class tax CUT in history. But would anyone expect anything different from a party that considers having 30 million uninsured people in this country "not an issue".
From the start, it's been obvious that the more people know about this law, the more they support it. The Right Wing has run out of lies, and the message is finally getting through. I almost think we should send John Roberts a thank you note. Well, maybe not, but that's for another thread.
Article excerpt follows:
Republicans Start to Panic as ObamaCare Reaches 50% Approval
By: Jason Easley
July 2, 2012
According to a new CNN poll, Americans are still divided on ObamaCare. Fifty percent of those surveyed agreeing with the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law, while 49% disagreed. This represents a two point increase from a Reuters/Ipsos poll released yesterday that found that 48% support the Affordable Care Act. Support for the ACA has increased from 34% in the fall of 2011 to 43% before the Supreme Court decision to 50% supporting the court's decision today.
Republicans quickly tried to turn their Supreme Court defeat into political ammunition by reviving many of the same attacks they used against the ACA in 2009 and 2010. GOP congressional leaders like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner revived their government takeover of healthcare talking points and called for immediate repeal of the law, but a funny thing is happening on the way back in time to 2010.
Support for the law, and the decision that ruled the law constitutional, is growing. Instead of emptily repeating the Republican cries for repeal, the media has been asking the GOP exactly what they intend to replace ObamaCare with.
When pressured by Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday on what he was going to do about the uninsured if he repealed the ACA, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell got flustered and stated that the uninsured in America aren't an issue. As bad as McConnell's performance was, he was outdone by Speaker of the House John Boehner. Speaker Boehner was left clinging to his general talking points about common sense reform as CBS's Norah O'Donnell continued to pressure him to specifically state what parts of the ACA he would keep, and which parts he would repeal.
Boehner was so broken by the whole experience that a few times during the interview he actually raised his voice and yelled his answers at O'Donnell. Evidence of the GOP backtracking on the ACA can be found in the fact that when pressed Boehner and McConnell both admitted that there are good points in the law that should not be repealed.
The Republican answer to the ACA is repeal and replace, but things quickly fall apart when they asked the question, replace with what? The fact that the ACA has gone from being widely unpopular to a virtual 50/50 split in the days since the Supreme Court decision is a major problem for the GOP, and odds are that the law is going to continue to grow in popularity as insured Americans begin to receive their share of the $1.1 billion in insurance premium rebates.
Time and political momentum are working against those who are advocating for repeal. There was panic in Boehner and McConnell's interviews, and that panic will only grow if the public continues to get comfortable with "ObamaCare."
From the start, it's been obvious that the more people know about this law, the more they support it. The Right Wing has run out of lies, and the message is finally getting through. I almost think we should send John Roberts a thank you note. Well, maybe not, but that's for another thread.
Article excerpt follows:
Republicans Start to Panic as ObamaCare Reaches 50% Approval
By: Jason Easley
July 2, 2012
According to a new CNN poll, Americans are still divided on ObamaCare. Fifty percent of those surveyed agreeing with the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law, while 49% disagreed. This represents a two point increase from a Reuters/Ipsos poll released yesterday that found that 48% support the Affordable Care Act. Support for the ACA has increased from 34% in the fall of 2011 to 43% before the Supreme Court decision to 50% supporting the court's decision today.
Republicans quickly tried to turn their Supreme Court defeat into political ammunition by reviving many of the same attacks they used against the ACA in 2009 and 2010. GOP congressional leaders like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner revived their government takeover of healthcare talking points and called for immediate repeal of the law, but a funny thing is happening on the way back in time to 2010.
Support for the law, and the decision that ruled the law constitutional, is growing. Instead of emptily repeating the Republican cries for repeal, the media has been asking the GOP exactly what they intend to replace ObamaCare with.
When pressured by Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday on what he was going to do about the uninsured if he repealed the ACA, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell got flustered and stated that the uninsured in America aren't an issue. As bad as McConnell's performance was, he was outdone by Speaker of the House John Boehner. Speaker Boehner was left clinging to his general talking points about common sense reform as CBS's Norah O'Donnell continued to pressure him to specifically state what parts of the ACA he would keep, and which parts he would repeal.
Boehner was so broken by the whole experience that a few times during the interview he actually raised his voice and yelled his answers at O'Donnell. Evidence of the GOP backtracking on the ACA can be found in the fact that when pressed Boehner and McConnell both admitted that there are good points in the law that should not be repealed.
The Republican answer to the ACA is repeal and replace, but things quickly fall apart when they asked the question, replace with what? The fact that the ACA has gone from being widely unpopular to a virtual 50/50 split in the days since the Supreme Court decision is a major problem for the GOP, and odds are that the law is going to continue to grow in popularity as insured Americans begin to receive their share of the $1.1 billion in insurance premium rebates.
Time and political momentum are working against those who are advocating for repeal. There was panic in Boehner and McConnell's interviews, and that panic will only grow if the public continues to get comfortable with "ObamaCare."
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luvguins 2012/07/02 23:59:53
Go back to the right wing blog site from whence you came.
The more clever people are,the better paid jobs they will get-the more money they will earn-the more things they will be able to afford.The less clever people are-the lesser paid jobs they will get-the less they will be able to afford.
A country to be proud of-is a country that makes sure that every one of her citizens,-regardless of their intelligence,capability and financial situation accordingly, always receives their needed individual medical treatment and care.The general welfare of a nation should not be balanced to reward more the wealthy and restrict more the poorer.
When a person does not have health insurance(like in the middle ages)and needs medical care and cannot afford the costs aka cannot afford the needed quality medical treatment,-the care and treatment still has to be paid for(Presuming the Paramedics,Doctors,Nurses and Surgeons etc will not turn patients away nor pay for the patients treatment themselves).
The information on just the one page of the link you refuse to read shows how easy and FAIR it is for a country to have 95% of it's citizens covered with health and Social(and pension)insurance.It also shows that there is no need to fine anyone for not being insured-as those who are in a situation...
The more clever people are,the better paid jobs they will get-the more money they will earn-the more things they will be able to afford.The less clever people are-the lesser paid jobs they will get-the less they will be able to afford.
A country to be proud of-is a country that makes sure that every one of her citizens,-regardless of their intelligence,capability and financial situation accordingly, always receives their needed individual medical treatment and care.The general welfare of a nation should not be balanced to reward more the wealthy and restrict more the poorer.
When a person does not have health insurance(like in the middle ages)and needs medical care and cannot afford the costs aka cannot afford the needed quality medical treatment,-the care and treatment still has to be paid for(Presuming the Paramedics,Doctors,Nurses and Surgeons etc will not turn patients away nor pay for the patients treatment themselves).
The information on just the one page of the link you refuse to read shows how easy and FAIR it is for a country to have 95% of it's citizens covered with health and Social(and pension)insurance.It also shows that there is no need to fine anyone for not being insured-as those who are in a situation(whether temporary or not)unable to meet the monthly costs of Health insurance(Is always in % according to the gross monthly salary) are then automatically covered by the States Health Insurance for example when unemployed.END.
While the Supreme Court declared that the president’s health care law is constitutional, they were unable to make it popular. Fifty-two percent (52%) still favor repeal of the law. That’s little changed from a week ago and little changed since the law was passed more than two years ago. However, while most voters still hope for repeal, the belief that it will happen has fallen sharply. Just 39% now believe repeal is even somewhat likely, down from 61% last week.
http://www.rasmussenreports.c...
"The German social security system covers unemployment, health, pension, sickness, and carer's insurance, as well as maternity benefits and child allowances and is funded by contributions from the employed, employers and self-employed as well as the state, in four insurance schemes:
* Health insurance (Krankenversicherung)
* Unemployment insurance (Arbeitslosenversicherung)
* Nursing care insurance (Pflegeversicherung)
* Pension insurance (Rentenversicherung)
The people covered are:
* Employed persons (including apprentices)
* Most self-employed persons
* Carers for children under the age of three
* Recipients of social benefits (for example unemployment benefit)
* Conscripted soldiers or those doing community service instead of military service.".
http://berlin.angloinfo.com/c...
Lyndon Johnson had the idea that all Americans should be living in fashionable homes and they deserved them. The taxpayers footed the bill for the projects around the country and what do they get in return? Tenements with broken glass, dens of thieves, drug addicts, single parents, and housing that had to be bulldozed because it was so infested with rats and other vermin.
You list all the wonderful programs. Where does the money come from to pay for them? Liberal socialists need to discover that it isn't free and that taking from one person to give to another is anti-capitalist and defeating to those that would work and create more wealth if they were allowed to keep what they earn. Capitalism allows the individual to buy insurance if he or she pleases or to opt out. But it doesn't force others to pay for someone who will not take care of themselves.
You can't stand the chance that Americans will LOVE Obamacare, just as much as they love Medicare.
Yeah, they LOVE Medicare all right....because they're oblivious to the enormous fraud and waste ....they also seem to not CARE AT ALL about the pesky little fact that it currently is $39 TRILLION in the hole in terms of unfunded liability.
In 1956 when Medicare was implemented, the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that the hospital insurance portion of the program would cost about $9 billion annually by 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was over 7 TIMES that amount ($67 BILLION). Even after they factored for inflation, it was still 165% over the original estimate. In 1987, Congress estimated that Medicaid’s DSH program would cost less than $1 billion in 1992. The actual cost those 5 short years later was an unbelievable $17 billion.
So imagine that your kids come to you wanting some new kind of cable / movie service that is supposed to cost $100 per month. 5 years later it is actually costing $700 per month. The $700 is NOT in the budget so the bill can never be paid in full and the balance keeps growing and growing. I don't CARE how much they LOVE it....it was a bad idea and it has to go.
Medicare is financially sound in and of itself. Everyone knows it's in trouble because the government can't keep it's sticky fingers out of the Medicare cookie jar, not because the program itself is flawed.
Government has the ability to fix Medicare simply by leaving it alone and allowing it to function as intended. The problem is with our government leaders, not Medicare.
Exactly what part of $38.6 TRILLION (with a "T") in unfunded liability is causing you the confusion?
http://cnsnews.com/news/artic...
As for the rest, cram it. I'm all for socialized medicine and I've done a hell of a lot to contribute to this country.