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Originally Posted by ruff
The one thing always left out of the argument about Obamacare is the fact that it was built upon a Republican, market-based foundation. It's core principles were developed by a conservative think tank in the 1990s as a counter to President Clinton's much more liberal health-care plan. Around 10 years later a version of this conservative health-care plan was implemented successfully by Republican Governor Mitt Romney in the state of Massachusetts.
Originally the Democrats did not like Obama proposing this GOP plan because they preferred a single-payer scheme. But Obama believed since the Republicans developed the original health-care plan, they would be more inclined to support Obamacare. But then Republican leaders had decided they were going to unilaterally opposed Obama in just about anything he did. They opposed it and then characterized it as a typical liberal entitlement.
Pride before the fall. Now they realized they have backed themselves into a corner. They will never get anything accomplished because they will spend all their time fighting each other instead of looking out for the American citizen. They are party first, country second and they prove this every single day.
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It's stunning how this works isn't it? A Republican healthcare plan put into place by a Republican, and the only reason the Republicans don't like it is because the Democrats are putting it in place.
And you are right - they backed themselves into a corner. No matter what happened they would have come out looking like shit. If it failed to pass, they looked stupid. If it passed and then failed, they still looked stupid.
When your car needs new tires, you don't buy a new car you buy new tires. If your car needs new tires, new brakes, and the transmission fixed it's still going to be cheaper than buying a new $50k car. You fix what is wrong, you don't replace it.