So what is the big plan for the coming election by republicans? It is to take away health care for 21 million and deny coverage for preexisting conditions to around 130 million American citizens. Yeah, I am not seeing that as a winning strategy heading into the 2020 election. But republicans seem to think so and well and good for them to be as clueless as the political party in a bubble. For one thing there is no way legislatively it can be accomplished so that is their first clueless clue and then they are relying on the courts to help them along with denying Obamacare when the Chief Justice John Roberts decided the law was constitutional. With the other four liberals that would preclude a Supreme Court ruling to take away health care.
Yet suppose Roberts had a change of heart and rules with the other four republicans on the court and disbands Obamacare, what next? Well all those people mentioned above would lose coverage and the preexisting conditions clause in their policies. I can just imagine how happy those folks are going to be so close to the 2020 election that if any republican survived the coming onslaught it would be miraculous. Yet not even I think that Roberts is willing to reverse his 2012 decision to keep Obamacare as law. If he did it would make him out to be less a trailblazer and more an acolyte. he controls his perception as his position is for life so there really is no pressure on him to change his point of view now.
But even outside the outcomes of an unlikely judicial intervention there is little else that republicans can do to make Obamacare null and void. First off Obamacare was always a compromise, a step in the right direction toward universal health care like so many modern countries already enjoy. So if there were any tweaks to the law that could be had it would be to improve it not dismantle it. Thankfully we democrats have control of the House and it would be impossible for any legislation to go forward in that body that even had a hint of denigrating the law. Yet the republican party will further their rallying cry to end Obamacare as if it was the most popular will of the people agenda item on their to do list. Keep being clueless republicans, you are doing the rest of us a huge favor.
Yet suppose Roberts had a change of heart and rules with the other four republicans on the court and disbands Obamacare, what next? Well all those people mentioned above would lose coverage and the preexisting conditions clause in their policies. I can just imagine how happy those folks are going to be so close to the 2020 election that if any republican survived the coming onslaught it would be miraculous. Yet not even I think that Roberts is willing to reverse his 2012 decision to keep Obamacare as law. If he did it would make him out to be less a trailblazer and more an acolyte. he controls his perception as his position is for life so there really is no pressure on him to change his point of view now.
But even outside the outcomes of an unlikely judicial intervention there is little else that republicans can do to make Obamacare null and void. First off Obamacare was always a compromise, a step in the right direction toward universal health care like so many modern countries already enjoy. So if there were any tweaks to the law that could be had it would be to improve it not dismantle it. Thankfully we democrats have control of the House and it would be impossible for any legislation to go forward in that body that even had a hint of denigrating the law. Yet the republican party will further their rallying cry to end Obamacare as if it was the most popular will of the people agenda item on their to do list. Keep being clueless republicans, you are doing the rest of us a huge favor.
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