Thursday, January 12, 2017

Re: [socialist-econ] There Will Be No Obamacare Replacement [feedly]

The fascists created their own Monster. They campaigned on Obamacare is a disaster and created the need amongst their base to destroy it--even tho very large elements of their base desperately need Obamacare. 



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On Jan 12, 2017, at 1:47 PM, John Case <jcase4218@gmail.com> wrote:


....really, Prof Krugman, only Comey and Putin?

There Will Be No Obamacare Replacement
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2017/01/there-will-be-no-obamacare-replacement.html

Paul Krugman:

There Will Be No Obamacare Replacement: You may be surprised at the evident panic now seizing Republicans, who finally — thanks to James Comey and Vladimir Putin — are in a position to do what they always wanted, and kill Obamacare. How can it be that they're not ready with a replacement plan?
That is, you may be surprised if you spent the entire Obama era paying no attention to the substantive policy issues — which is a pretty good description of the Republicans, now that you think about it.
From the beginning, those of us who did think it through realized that anything like universal coverage could only be achieved in one of two ways: single payer, which was not going to be politically possible, or a three-legged stool of regulation, mandates, and subsidies. Here's how I put it exactly 7 years ago...
It's actually amazing how thoroughly the right turned a blind eye to this logic, and some — maybe even a majority — are still in denial. But this is as ironclad a policy argument as I've ever seen; and it means that you can't tamper with the basic structure without throwing tens of millions of people out of coverage. You can't even scale back the spending very much — Obamacare is somewhat underfunded as is.
Will they decide to go ahead anyway, and risk opening the eyes of working-class voters to the way they've been scammed? I have no idea. But if Republicans do end up paying a big political price for their willful policy ignorance, it couldn't happen to more deserving people.

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