Well we are down to it. Next week republicans in the Senate will put up a bill to repeal Obamacare without a replacement. Because this week they tried for the 3rd time to drastically reduce the effects of Obamacare and were stymied. The reason is because republican leadership is not trying to fix the minor problems within Obamacare and make it much better, instead they are trying to make it worse by throwing 10's of millions of folks off of it. Well not all republicans are of an extremely cruel and brutish nature which was enough to end the republican attempt to destroy Obamacare. So now we are at the point where republicans are throwing in the guise of trying to "fix" Obamacare by worsening it and instead are showing their real intent by just trying to repeal the law altogether.
This is their last gasp to make good on their campaign pledges over the last 7 years to sabotage Obamacare. The republicans demonized Obamacare from its beginning with falsehoods to misinformation and now that they had a real chance to end Obamacare but their lies of the past caught up to them. Voters are realizing that Obamacare was actually a success in many different ways but especially in their own lives. So now what is left of the sometimes rationally thinking republican party has stepped up and put the brakes on dismantling Obamacare and from what I see already from outright repealing it. Which to me when this vote to repeal Obamacare comes up next week and is defeated will be the last attempt to end President Obama's signature policy to enrich the lives of all Americans.
When the final vote is tallied next week and the repeal is defeated will be the opportunity then for some real progress on improving Obamacare instead of destroying it. The republicans will have to reach out to the democrats and finally ask for their input and cooperation in making health care a more permanent part of American culture. If all goes according to this tentative schedule next week we should start seeing signs of the Congress beginning to work in a bipartisan manner to not only stabilize the insurance markets but give some relief to those in the middle class who are struggling to keep health insurance at a reasonable cost. I would prefer a single payer public option type consensus but we are dealing with a republican majority and a criminal president so I expect little to come of a march toward universal health care but it should be progress that way regardless of how much.
This is their last gasp to make good on their campaign pledges over the last 7 years to sabotage Obamacare. The republicans demonized Obamacare from its beginning with falsehoods to misinformation and now that they had a real chance to end Obamacare but their lies of the past caught up to them. Voters are realizing that Obamacare was actually a success in many different ways but especially in their own lives. So now what is left of the sometimes rationally thinking republican party has stepped up and put the brakes on dismantling Obamacare and from what I see already from outright repealing it. Which to me when this vote to repeal Obamacare comes up next week and is defeated will be the last attempt to end President Obama's signature policy to enrich the lives of all Americans.
When the final vote is tallied next week and the repeal is defeated will be the opportunity then for some real progress on improving Obamacare instead of destroying it. The republicans will have to reach out to the democrats and finally ask for their input and cooperation in making health care a more permanent part of American culture. If all goes according to this tentative schedule next week we should start seeing signs of the Congress beginning to work in a bipartisan manner to not only stabilize the insurance markets but give some relief to those in the middle class who are struggling to keep health insurance at a reasonable cost. I would prefer a single payer public option type consensus but we are dealing with a republican majority and a criminal president so I expect little to come of a march toward universal health care but it should be progress that way regardless of how much.
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