The greatest part was that Obama and Hillary didn’t have to do a freakin’ thing. Just sit back and let these idiots do it to themselves. Then the orange idiot has the gall to blame the Democrats. How many times did the Republicans vote to repeal the ACA under Obama? HAhahahahahahahaha. My stomach hurts from laughing so much.
Wait till they start defunding it through any means, like inserting cuts in the Defense Authorization Bills? A reprieve isn’t a guarantee with Trump’s poachers.
I guess this cartoon is suggesting that we should be celebrating because, as Paul Ryan said Friday, “Obamacare is the law of the land.” But, is that really something we can celebrate, long-term?
From The Washington Post, on March 25, on their front page:
“In the coming weeks and months, (the Trump Administration) will be faced with a series of choices over whether to shore up insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, or let them atrophy. These marketplaces are currently a conduit to health coverage for 10 million Americans, but they have been financially fragile, prompting spiking rates and defections of major insurers.”
Now, no one ever accused The Washington Post of being a right wing propaganda sheet. If anything, they probably lean a little to the left. They’re certainly not Fox News! But, they at least attempt to be factual on their front page. Look at what they’re saying here:
Insurance marketplaces created by Obamacare are in need of “shoring up” lest they collapse. They will most likely “atrophy” unless some action is taken. They are “financially fragile” and they are driving premiums up, not down, while forcing many insurance companies to simply give up and get out of the medical insurance business.
Forget politics for a minute. We all need something that will work long-term, and so far we don’t have it. Sure, some folks benefited from Obamacare in the short term, but it is not sustainable, and who benefits when the whole thing collapses?
This will never get fixed unless both sides of the aisle in Congress loss their “us vs. them” mentality, and seek help from experts in the various fields involved (Medicine, the Economy, etc.) And, whatever they come up with, should be “the law of the land” for members of Congress as well as everybody else. And it also wouldn’t hurt if we, the ordinary people, stopped being so nasty with each other in these comments. Healthy discussion is better than name-calling any day.
Let’s not get too self-congratulatory here. The elephant is hardly dead and not really even headed toward extinction. This was only one (probably temporary) setback in their overall agenda to utterly destroy the federal government of the United States.
Worse, all the attention it sucked up distracted people from something that’ll probably have far worse long-term impact on the country: the disaster for justice that is Neil Gorsuch.
The elephant defeated itself. Obama doesn’t have to plant a flag, now they will just let Obamacare rot, because they would cut that trunk off to spite the people of this country.
William Bednar Premium Member about 7 years ago
Actually, Mr. O doesn’t have to do much as the GOP will self-destruct in due time.
Wlly Blly about 7 years ago
The greatest part was that Obama and Hillary didn’t have to do a freakin’ thing. Just sit back and let these idiots do it to themselves. Then the orange idiot has the gall to blame the Democrats. How many times did the Republicans vote to repeal the ACA under Obama? HAhahahahahahahaha. My stomach hurts from laughing so much.
Wilbur Garrod about 7 years ago
THEY JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT IS (has been 0?)GOOD FOR THEM
Dtroutma about 7 years ago
Wait till they start defunding it through any means, like inserting cuts in the Defense Authorization Bills? A reprieve isn’t a guarantee with Trump’s poachers.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault about 7 years ago
Meanwhile, a tsetse fly is zeroing in
Ken in Ohio about 7 years ago
I guess this cartoon is suggesting that we should be celebrating because, as Paul Ryan said Friday, “Obamacare is the law of the land.” But, is that really something we can celebrate, long-term?
From The Washington Post, on March 25, on their front page:
“In the coming weeks and months, (the Trump Administration) will be faced with a series of choices over whether to shore up insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, or let them atrophy. These marketplaces are currently a conduit to health coverage for 10 million Americans, but they have been financially fragile, prompting spiking rates and defections of major insurers.”
Now, no one ever accused The Washington Post of being a right wing propaganda sheet. If anything, they probably lean a little to the left. They’re certainly not Fox News! But, they at least attempt to be factual on their front page. Look at what they’re saying here:
Insurance marketplaces created by Obamacare are in need of “shoring up” lest they collapse. They will most likely “atrophy” unless some action is taken. They are “financially fragile” and they are driving premiums up, not down, while forcing many insurance companies to simply give up and get out of the medical insurance business.
Forget politics for a minute. We all need something that will work long-term, and so far we don’t have it. Sure, some folks benefited from Obamacare in the short term, but it is not sustainable, and who benefits when the whole thing collapses?
This will never get fixed unless both sides of the aisle in Congress loss their “us vs. them” mentality, and seek help from experts in the various fields involved (Medicine, the Economy, etc.) And, whatever they come up with, should be “the law of the land” for members of Congress as well as everybody else. And it also wouldn’t hurt if we, the ordinary people, stopped being so nasty with each other in these comments. Healthy discussion is better than name-calling any day.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 7 years ago
Let’s not get too self-congratulatory here. The elephant is hardly dead and not really even headed toward extinction. This was only one (probably temporary) setback in their overall agenda to utterly destroy the federal government of the United States.
Worse, all the attention it sucked up distracted people from something that’ll probably have far worse long-term impact on the country: the disaster for justice that is Neil Gorsuch.
Mr. Blawt about 7 years ago
The elephant defeated itself. Obama doesn’t have to plant a flag, now they will just let Obamacare rot, because they would cut that trunk off to spite the people of this country.