Category: ObamaCare

Big Government reached its current massive proportions due to the ratchet effect. Every movement toward a larger, more powerful, and more intrusive government is permanent, because the ratchet only turns one way. That’s why Democrats were willing to commit political hara-kiri to ram ObamaCare through. They knew that once it was law, people would become […]

Republicans are starting to release their plans to replace the deplorable Obamacare. Senators Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins introduced a very squishy plan. We’re awaiting plans from Paul Ryan and President Trump. And there were plenty bandied about during the Obama years. Which will win out? (Yahoo Business) Sen. Rand Paul introduced the Obamacare Replacement […]

Despite its infamous fecklessness, the Republican Party has prevented the USA from sliding all the way into socialism by serving as a roadblock to Democrats. But will anyone put up resistance when it is the GOP pushing the runaway statism? Looks like we are about to find out: Trump said in a weekend interview that […]

According to Paul Ryan, the answer is yes (CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday Republicans plan to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law at the same time they approve a GOP replacement plan. “We want to do this at the same time, and in some cases in the same bill,” Ryan said during […]

It appears as if the repeal is going to be piecemeal, rather than simply toasting the entire thing as on (Washington Post) The Senate voted 51 to 48 early Thursday to approve a budget resolution instructing House and Senate committees to begin work on legislation to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act. The […]

Donald Trump wants immediate repeal of Obamacare, and is pushing Congressional Republicans to do just that. Many of those Republicans are concerned and want a replacement bill, which is a pretty wise stance. The time to straight up cancel Ocare was the 2012 general election, before the majority of the law kicked in. Meanwhile, over […]

For the most part, Democrats have avoided campaigning on Obamacare since it was passed. Most did not even want to discuss it. It was a loser topic, which has seen Democrats go from a wildly majority party before the 2010 midterms to massive losses at the federal, state, and local levels. They own this lock, […]

Senator Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS with John Dickerson. He commented on a number of important issues including Obamacare which he characterized as being “in a full scale meltdown.” He also said that “eight out of ten Americans either want it replaced entirely or significantly changed.” He stated that the first actions needed for repeal […]

As someone in the comments at the Washington Post notes “How can you make something “great again” that wasn’t great in the first place?” Catherine Rampell gives it a shot Make Obamacare great again — call it Trumpcare Believe it or not, Americans like Obamacare. They just don’t know they like Obamacare. That is, the […]

Excitable Ezra Klein does his best to Voxsplain a comment by Kellanne Conway, but, utterly whiffs while simultaneously admitting that Obama lied his mom jeans posterior off Trump’s “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” moment One of Trump’s top advisers just made repealing Obamacare much, much harder. Right there in the headline […]

This has liberals very freaked out, but, as David French notes, what comes around goes around, because, as Vox notes, Democrats cannot stop it (Vox) The new Congress was sworn in on Tuesday, and the first thing it did was prepare to repeal Obamacare. Senate Budget Committee Chair Michael Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution […]

Barack Obama ends 2016 by losing yet another court case (Buzzfeed) A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a nationwide injunction halting enforcement of Obama administration protections for transgender and abortion-related healthcare services just one day before they were due to go into effect. The lawsuit — brought by Texas, a handful of other […]

As usual, there are lots of fun opinion pieces at the highly leftist NY Times. The Editorial Board is whining about Trump using social media to reach directly to We The People. Frank Bruni is losing it over Trump taking a hard look at people to serve in his administration. Liberals in the comments are […]

You can’t just rip the bandaid off (NY Times) Republicans in Congress plan to move almost immediately next month to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as President-elect Donald J. Trump promised. But they also are likely to delay the effective date so that they have several years to phase out President Obama’s signature achievement. This […]

Illinois is about to get a rude and deadly wake-up call concerning Obamacare. Four research hospitals will be excluded in the marketplace next year. That along with massive premium hikes is going to slam Americans in that state and many others. The kicker here is that many of the patients here suffer from life-threatening conditions […]