Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
Great news, Boilerman! More free shit !
The new spending bill just passed this week will be removing two more payment mechanisms from Obamacare. The "Cadilac Tax" on premium insurance plans and also the Medical Device tax are officially no more.
So we are officially left with all of the spending incurred by Obamacare but with 2 fewer of its payment mechanisms in place.....in addition to the repeal of the individual mandate.
The "Repeal and Replace" effort of Obamacare has resulted in keeping Obamacare but not paying for it.
FOX News crowd, aren't ya glad you voted for the Atlantic City Casino guy?
The real evil at work here is that Republicans can point to Obamacare and say, "SEE?? It's not working!" after they've starved it of funding.
Remember when the moral high dudgeon was about the individual mandate? That no one should be forced to buy health insurance? Well, the Republicans got rid of that. And their efforts to destroy Obamacare continued unabated. Pretty hypocritical, eh?
I still don't understand why the Republicans are so fucking outraged over people getting health care. Racism and classism are at the core of their sentiments and worldview, of course, but why all these drastic efforts, which have now been going on for the better part of a decade? Aren't there other things they could be doing that would benefit the country rather than hurting it?