Republican Healthcare Plan

You always have the option to use your non-Obama care insurance. Beyond that, while there are doctors who won't accept ACA insurance, it is only difficult, but not impossible to find doctors who will. The stats I've seen indicate a substantial minority of doctors won't take the insurance.You are satisfied with 'let folks die insurance', when the rest of the Western world manages to provide health care to all of its citizens for much less than we pay. That's what you call freedom.

You've already done you. I am just commenting on what you've said.

After all of the repeal attempts under Obama, Congress comes to this realization:

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Some Republicans are cautioning against repealing the Affordable Care Act too quickly and urging the party take the foot off the accelerator. The reason: there's no plan on how to replace what they roll back.

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I know that petro told you something different, but the Republicans themselves are saying that there is no plan to replace the health care system that is currently covering 20 million Americans.

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Gingrich stressed that before Republicans send a bill repealing Obamacare to Trump's desk, the party must make real progress on a replacement plan. "They have to have bridges to give people a sense of comfort that they're not going to be abandoned," he said.

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Yeah, I know. I quoted Newt...

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GOP Sen. Rand Paul cited potential insurance market problems if the law isn't replaced when it is repealed. "If Congress fails to vote on a replacement at the same time as repeal, the repealers risk assuming the blame for the continued unraveling of Obamacare," he said in an op-ed Tuesday. "For mark my words, Obamacare will continue to unravel and wreak havoc for years to come."

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From fox news:

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Trump has provided few specifics about how he would revamp the nation's $3 trillion-a-year health care system. Steps he and congressional Republicans have mentioned include greater reliance on tax credits to help people afford coverage

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We have plenty of plans, said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. We don’t want to pull the rug out on people. We don't want people to be caught with nothing.

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Your suggestion that the Democrats could have gotten single payer healthcare in 2013 is a ridiculous. At that point in time, Democrats were forced to rely on Senate fillibusters and presidential vetos just to keep Obamacare from being repealed. I'm for a single-payer system. But the idea that the democrats could have gotten any improvements to the ACA, and single-payer in particular, in 2013 is laughable.

Of course these folks are going to eventually get it together and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, but...CNN is reporting that Trump has asked Paul Ryan to pull the current bill to replace the ACA with something. Given the dozens of repeal votes during Obama's presidency, which we can now see were only made under the cover of knowing that those past repeals would never see the light of day, it is clear that there never was an actual Republican Plan.Maybe someday there will be a Republican plan, but that plan certainly won't meet Trump's promise of giving better coverage to more people for less money.ABC, Fox and NBC are confirming that Ryan has pulled the bill.And I thought neocons sucked...

That's clearly only the glass empty part of it. Those tea party folk wanted it to repeal some very popular parts of Obamacare that the rest of the Republican party were either opposed to dropping or felt that their constituents were opposed to dropping. Trump may not have the popularity to pull this off nationwide, but he can go after some Republicans that are in the reddest districts. Is going after tea party candidates in really red districts going to be a winning proposition? I think not.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

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Seriously brother? How about some honey instead of vinegar.

The conservatives here have already explained this a dozen times, but I will recap.1. If you die because you cannot afford health insurance while trying to put food on the table, well then by electing to feed your hungry children, you are experiencing "freedom".2. Jimmy is going to use some of that there health insurance for a sex-change, and I don't want to pay for that even if it means I myself cannot afford my blood pressure medicine. More Freedom.3. Hispanics are going to be treated in hospitals. Probably some Mexicans. And Obama's birth certificate. Nuff said.4. Don't they have universal health care in Finland? That's stuff is for commies and it makes the lines for getting my hangnail treated too long.4a. USA, USA, USA