Originally posted by bill718
Lost in the giddy Obamacare rollout 'pile on" are millions of Americans who cannot afford healthcare coverage, and will die premature deaths because of this. No one seems to care about them, the prevaling attitude seems to be "I've got mine, to hell with you!" It seems the politics of the problem is far more imporntant than solving the problem. Have American ...[text shortened]... re fellow citizens, that they'd rather see them die, than upset the status quo? It seems so...😞
Bill, this is all wrong. The fact is there are now millions
more who cannot afford healthcare coverage,
because of the ACA, and just as its opponents predicted. You don't get to hang this "no one seems to care" garbage around all our necks just because the lying incompetent you elected failed for all the reasons we told you he would.
If you really give a damn about all the people who need affordable health care in this country, the first thing you need to do is admit that you chose wrong before, and it failed. Our government is too corrupt and/or incompetent to be in charge of all the things you wished it could do. If the steaming pile of Obamacare doesn't convince you of that I don't know what to tell you. But if you can just let that go, and stop spinning the self serving lie that the other side is just a bunch of heartless bastards, maybe we can move, you know,
forward together.
OK, have you let it go? Take a moment. I know it's hard. Deep breath.
OK, with that behind us, what other ideas, besides the failed Obamacare, are out there that might improve health care availability for everyone, and that, importantly, you might get some
agreement on from the people you have just decided to stop denigrating as bunch of heartless bastards? Off the top of my head, I know Mike Enzi has had a 10 point plan that Democrats have ignored for years.
http://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/_files/BillText10StepstoTransformHealthCare.pdf
There was also the Patient's Choice Act introduced by Paul Ryan back in 2009.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR02520😠@
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Heritage has a plan, but I don't think you're ready for a link to their website. Still too raw, I imagine. There are surely others, and they can all be conversation starters, but only if you are ready to have a conversation, you know, like grown ups do.