The ACA, Again

[filkertom]

I certainly don't expect a lot of my politically-right-leaning friends to read this exhaustive article in the Daily Kos about how the Republican party has fought against the Affordable Care Act with lies, disinformation, and more lies; I expect even fewer to think about it. But I thought it was worth it to at least have the information out here,

Comments

It's less about Republicans in principle...

[lizziecrowe]

The cheif politicians in charge of this fear campaign were bought and sold by insurance companies. THEY are the ones who truly fear Obamacare. They've increased profits over the bodies of tens of thousands of patients, and Obamacare would put a serious kibosh on that

[alverant]

I heard that Republicans are more likely to be against "Obamacare" than the
"Affordable Care Act" even though they are the same thing. It's like they are only against it because it has the President's name on it.

[dragonmakr]

IIRC, the study or polling showed that 14% of Republicans who were asked approved of Obamacare; 22% approved of the Affordable Care Act. If I don't recall correctly, then the numbers aren't quite as high on approval of the ACA.

[alverant]

Technically that's a 50% increase in support. Something to annoy the cons with.

[starcat_jewel]

All you have to do to get people to love Obamacare is call it something else. In KY, they're calling it "Kynect" and it's getting highly-favorable responses -- from the same people who elected Rand Paul.

[teddywolf]

Well, this way they have it all: they get to rail against government overreach, demonize President Obama, still have the healthcare they decry, and claim that the healthcare they're still railing against was all their own idea.

[mimiheart]

I was doing the youtube 'how did I get here?' thing the other day, and watched a video of this woman say how Obamacare had somehow or another caused her to pay thousands of dollars more a month for her two chronically ill kids than she had been paying before. I was watching and all I could think was, your doing it wrong. She was saying that EVERY doctor she had spoken to, every nurse, every billing and insurance agent was saying what a horrible thing this was. That she had gone from paying about $100 a month for her sons' care to $5000 in the past two years, all because of Obamacare. It's ALL his fault

[alverant]

ACA hasn't been implemented yet so how could it make someone pay more?

I think the video is a bunch of right-wing propaganda.

[mimiheart]

Parts of it have been implemented. For example, insurance companies can no longer say kids with pre-existing conditions can be excluded from coverage or charge an absurd rate for kids with pre-existing conditions. (Had lots of fun experiences with that one.)

[gardnerhill]

All I want is for the President to advocate deep breathing.

Rush and the other Squealers on the right will instantly relabel it ObamaAir and say that no REAL American should give in to that KenyanMooslim-endorsed nanny-state lung-tampering. The Idiocrats will lap it up.

And we'll be a single-party country in 4 minutes.