I apologise that much has passed since I began this post, but I want to finish my thoughts.
Ma R, I've never seen you apologetic about anything. It is part of your charm.
What your argument ignores are these fundamental points of reality:
1) pre-ACA, nearly a third of all Americans were without health coverage.
2) Medicare and Medicaid provide a wide variety of choice and cover more than more than a third of all Americans.
3) the CBO numbers were correct prior to interference by Republicans and 19 Republican governors refusing to cover their own citizens with expanded Medicaid.
4) US medical outcomes are at the bottom of developed countries (and many third world and developing countries).
5) there is a national shortage of medical providers, which is doing more to drive up costs than any national policy.
Food for thought.
It is a really simple equation here, the American people should not be forced to pay for their neighbor's health insurance at a federal level. You want socialized medicine, get it passed through your state legislature and raise state taxes to pay for it. The federal government is not capable of managing a simple trust fund, how will it be able to manage a huge entitlement? Hey, the previous guy promised that costs would go down and that I could keep my health plan. The skeptic in me would argue that he lied to us, but the liberal part of me argues that he had nothing but our best interests in mind when he added nearly 10% of all Americans to a government run monstrosity for free. He knew we wouldn't mind taking care of our neighbors and strangers. I mean, what would I have done with that extra $300 to $500 per month?
Look, I make no bones about it, this is about taking care of me and mine. The extra money that health insurance has cost me since Obamacare was forced upon America could have been used for the good of my family, even if was to take a family vacation. You can argue all you want what you insist is right or wrong, I don't care. America was founded and thrived on the thought that Americans took care of themselves. It has become painfully obvious that Obamacare will not work. America does not want to have their pockets picked to pay for other peoples largess. It all comes down to a simple question, why should my family go without? Why should I have to pick up the tab for somebody else? Obamacare has become the federal version of a gofundme account, except this gofundme account is mandatory and the money is being used to support a total stranger whose only need has been created by the federal government's need to impose its will upon the people who elected them.
I want my party to do NOTHING! Let's see what Obamacare will do over the next few years. Let's see if it was made to last or destined to fail. My guess, this thing will sink like a rock. Why throw good money after bad? Let it fail and see if something new can be created that would actually work and be sustainable. Obamacare cannot work, it never could have worked. All of the lies that we were told by its namesake, that costs would go down, that all would be good in the world, that it would free us from our worries and make is feel like we made a difference, and all of the other BS dogma that the last guy spouted, has come home to roost. Let Obamacare stand or fall on its own merits. Maybe it gets replaced, maybe it doesn't, but the experiment has been proven to be a failure. It cannot be saved.
Why should any Republican try to save Obama's masterpiece of disaster? Let it die, chalk it up to yet another liberal idea that didn't last because idealism and realism are opposites.
