“Obamacare is a train wreck, and that’s actually not fair to train wrecks.”
So said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. It was a line that drew both applause and laughs, as you would expect from a gathering of folks who view the Affordable Care Act as an abomination.i will never understand how anybody could call giving millions of taxpaying Americans lower and better healthcare and millions more of Americans healthcare for the first time can be called an abomination, i guess it just goes to show how far the deception goes with republicans trying to convince us to stay with what we have complained about forever, high premiums, dropping coverage, pre-existing conditions clauses, substandard healthcare, sky high prescription cost. if ObamaCares is an abomination what do you call what it brought us out of and what republicans are trying to return us to???
Chances are that Cruz and his CPAC fans are hoping the Supreme Court will do what Congress has so far been unable to do, when the justices rule in a few months on King v. Burwell. That’s the lawsuit to be argued at the high court this week —the one arguing that the subsidies millions of people are getting in 34 states to help cover the cost of their health insurance are illegal. Cruz and others who despise Obamacare are hoping that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, what they consider a scourge on the nation will soon be eradicated.i also wonder how the scotus could even consider yanking that safety net out from under those same millions of American citizens, that my friends would be the abomination.
A Supreme Court decision that goes against Obamacare would lead to a train wreck with almost unimaginable consequences. And Republicans likely would get much of the blame.
Anyone who thinks such an outcome would usher in an era of a better functioning health insurance marketplace should read the amicus briefsubmitted by America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s largest trade group.
AHIP’s brief supports the government, not the plaintiffs. It paints a picture not of a new heaven on earth if the Supreme Court decides against the government, but of a health insurance apocalypse. Not everywhere, though, ironically. The marketplace meltdown would occur only in those 34 states, led primarily by Republican governors, like in Texas, that defaulted to the federal government to operate their health insurance exchanges.
and so far all republicans have is the dusty greasy fingerprint laden Ryan voucher 6 year old plan that was totally rebuked. realize who has your back and who you listen to for truth, are not the same people
