It’s about time Democrats handed America a new crisis that we can really invest in even if it means divesting ourselves of our retirement accounts. After the endless tedium over removing Trump, liberal America needs something different, something to sink its teeth into.
Health Care
Should health care be an issue of personal choice or government responsibility? Does the answer still matter? The Affordable Care Act is a done deal. Republicans failed to get rid of it. Despite raising issues ranging from the legality of the individual mandate to whether we should make exceptions for employers’ religious beliefs, the core provision of Obamacare remains unchanged. Americans better carry health insurance, or else.
The recent Supreme Court decision on contraception requirements in the ACA argue in favor of an employer’s choice over government mandates. On the individual level, how can the government justify assuming the responsibility for our health care under threat of punishment when it is fundamentally incapable of administering a program of this scale? Medicare and Medicaid are rife with fraud and wasteful spending and we already have federal inspector general reports questioning the reliability of the eligibility data for those who signed up for Obamacare exchanges. Given the disastrous rollout and our government’s proven inability to make technology work, will anyone but the residents of the White House try to explain these problems as anything but another failure of big government?
Despite talk about socialized medicine, the Affordable Care Act did not give us a European-style health care system. Far from it. Instead of a public option we expanded Medicaid for low income Americans, a copout from Democrats who couldn’t make the public option fly. The result was a two-tiered health care system, private insurance overregulated by the government for people with money and poor people’s health care paid for by taxpayers. Is this the enlightened 21st century system we were promised?
For all their votes to get rid of Obamacare, Republicans still bear guilt for doing nothing to improve American health care when they had the chance. Nothing was done during the majority years under George W. Bush. Conservative lawmakers were content to ignore problems that should have been solved, like preexisting condition exclusions, until it was too late and Democrats seized their advantage. Now we have a behemoth we don’t want that is not going to do what we were promised but will cost us lots of money. That is the state of America's health care system and the focus of this category.
UPDATE March 26, 2017: seven years of promises and votes to repeal the ACA and Republicans still don’t have a replacement they can agree on. The House spent two days last week showing the nation just how divided they can be when it comes to making our lives better. Democrats will step in to fill the vacuum as the GOP continues its quest to anger the nation and hand the left a victory in the 2018 midterms.
America’s Biggest Problem Leads Democrats to Fail Again
Solving America’s biggest problem would make our country a better place. Democrats aren’t going to do that. Their health care solutions strive for an even more magnificent failure than they’ve already accomplished.
Extreme legislation and socialist policies that are absolutely unsustainable are not going to improve our economy, our lives, or the medical care we depend on.
New Democratic House Must Accept ACA Responsibility Now
It’s been a long time coming but Democrats own the House today. They’re ready to make big waves in Washington after riding in with the usual enthusiasm we hear whenever party leadership changes. Later the optimism will fizzle as lawmakers get down to the nuts and bolts reality of doing nothing.
Progressive Health Agenda is Medicare Fraud for All
Medicare for all is the rallying cry for an election-ready progressive health agenda that forgot that the party of progressives already promised us a health care system for everybody. We didn’t get what we were promised. That doesn’t mean we won’t get more fraudulent guarantees.
Deals We Can’t Refuse Will End Conservatism As We Know It
I’m a conservative Republican who hopes that the Senate GOP Obamacare repeal fails next week. Graham-Cassidy is a mistake. Republicans are trying to fulfill a promise that makes no political sense in a climate where deals we can’t refuse are what matter.
Repeal, Replace, Dismantle, Destroy Won’t Sell ACA Fix
With the nation at their mercy Republicans are about to blow the mission they staked their reputation to the instant Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act. We’ve heard the buzzwords: repeal, replace, dismantle. We might as well add destroy. The press isn’t great, but how could it be?
No Solution to Worst Health Care Problem: Dying Early
Go ahead. Sit back, count your money, and watch Republicans dispose of Obamacare. They promised to do it. It’s what we wanted. The party has been waiting for the chance for years. The new White House will claim a massive victory for the people when it’s done.
