High Court Decisions Aside: GOP Still Wants ACA (Obama-care) Repealed

Top to Bottom and in GOP Lobbying Circles: Same Old, Same Old

GOP Tools to "Fix" Obama-care

(if they get another chance)

The GOP and ACA (Obama-care): They cannot give up … a few examples:

Jeb Bush: Called it a “monstrosity” and “flawed to the core” and “the greatest job suppressor in the so-called recovery.” (Despite the high rate of job growth in the country in recent years). “I think the best way is to repeal Obama-care.”

Ted Cruz:  One of the most-outspoken opponents of Obama’s health care law, repeating in every public appearance that he promises to “repeal every single word” of the law.

Scott Walker:  Joined the Republican chorus in opposing Obama-care, even as he encouraged Republicans to look to the organization that originated the key tenets of the law for alternatives. Under Walker, 83,000 people were also taken off Wisconsin’s Medicaid program and told to look to the federal exchange, so Walker would be left to deal with those “transitioners” as well. But instead of offering up his own alternative, Walker has said he will leave it to Washington to come up with a fix.

Chris Christie: Holds a similar position to Walker in WI. Christie opted not to set up an exchange in his state, so more than 172,000 New Jersey residents would have lost their subsidies. Has said that “Obama-care is a failure, it’s always been a failure and it will not succeed.” 

Rand Paul: When asked by FOX News about his proposal if Obama-care were to be repealed, Paul said “We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time… It works everywhere else.” When pressed to explain why he’d want to revert to the old American system in which many more people were uninsured, he suggested that there is always charity.

Marco Rubio:  He, like Cruz, has proposed a plan to take the place of Obama-care, but now too late it seems??? And he appears lost and silent (like so many others).

Ben Carson: He calls for health savings accounts to replace the health care law. In reality his health savings accounts would likely increase the number of uninsured and increase health care costs while costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

John Kasich: Like Christie and Walker, he did not in Ohio set up its own exchange, so 161,000 residents would have lost had the USSC ruled against subsidies, which they did not. He still wants to repeal the parts of the law he doesn’t like, a position that has led many to call him a hypocrite.

  

Piyush “Bobby reel name” Jindal:  His plan involves throwing out the whole health care law entirely and eliminating the individual mandate while starting a $100 billion federal grant to states to subsidize premiums for low-income people. His plan like other Republican plans would result in millions of Americans being uninsured.

Happy voting in 2016.