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Obamacare is exponentially times googleplex better than Republicans' health care plans. It tries to help all people, and brilliantly requires Congress be on it, too. Its two biggest flaws are: 1) the Democrats tried to compromise with Republicans (Obama's Congress really should have ignored their squawks and implemented single-payer); 2) Republicans are willfully ruining it. There was no more gratitude from them than from a snake stepping on the oxygen tube and reporting the patient is dying. (Bad math, mixed metaphors, plagiarized image and bad grammar noted.)
Republicans who still claim the title are either morally bankrupt or, as Jeremiah observed (5:25-30), deceived. Sometimes both.
RepublicanCare pays for a $600 billion to $800 billion tax cut for wealthy people with a $600 billion to $880 billion cut in Medicaid. Not even six months in, after promises of health care that costs a lot less, covers everyone regardless of ability to pay, where nobody will lose their insurance, with no cuts to Medicaid (or Social Security or Medicare) ... we get this.
They've completely blasted everyone who has to work for a living, and the neediest among us. They're not even subtle.
Rosalie Bergeson Petersen
Bountiful