I put hopeless, even if the republicans controlled all three houses it would not get repealed, they would give some excuse. They are all the same in the end. Reelect no one...
Repeal it. I dont want to be forced to buy insurance.
I want it repealed, but I'm afraid they have so much damage to the insurance market (which is another problem) that we can never get back to where we were before this mess started.
I just had surgery a couple of weeks ago, at Ft Sill's Hospital. I had to go in a for a post-op visit a couple of days ago. While sitting in the waiting area, an old couple, was talking how great Obamacare and government controlled medicine is. I was proud, a young man, about 18, sitting there with his dad went off on them, for being socialist.
Anyway, Obamacare is just the beginning, on the road to a single-payer government program.
Anyway, Obamacare is just the beginning, on the road to a single-payer government program.
The poll results are what I expected and reflect the opinions of the Oklahoma populace as a whole I believe. A whopping 95% either want it totally repealed or want it repealed but have lost hope of it happening.
The question in my mind is why Oklahoma's representatives in Washington have not come out with an unambiguous statement calling for total repeal. I've looked and can't see that any of them have. Please show me where they have and I'll sleep a bit better.
I think that they are playing politics instead of standing up for the rights of the citizens they represent.
The question in my mind is why Oklahoma's representatives in Washington have not come out with an unambiguous statement calling for total repeal. I've looked and can't see that any of them have. Please show me where they have and I'll sleep a bit better.
I think that they are playing politics instead of standing up for the rights of the citizens they represent.
That's the GOP for you though. You get what you vote for.
I looked for that too. My wife has a medical condition that put her into that high risk pool that the Republicans seemed so fond of during the battle over "Obamacare." That translated to about a grand a month for a crappy policy with a gigantic deductable per claim.
Now she is covered with what I would call a "disaster policy" that is about 300 a month with a high deductable, but once that deductable is met, the insurance covers everything else for the year. We can afford the $300, and we can afford one big deductible (which would be eaten up the first day in the hospital), but a grand a month for "pretend insurance" was what the high risk pool covered.
When "high risk" pools were being touted, I believe that there were 145,000 participants nation wide.
It's the law, and It benefits me in my current situation. Does anybody remember the other thing the Feds once required citizens to buy? Back after the Revolutionary War, all adult males were required, by the Feds, to own a musket.
Better ideas abound, but this is what we have at the moment.
As for repeal, better look outside the right wing rhetoric for the national climate.
I understand the feeling. So let's say you choose no insurance, and get either real sick or hurt bad. I presume you will seek medical attention, and that it will be provided to you. I do not know your financial status, but let's assume it's modest to marginal, like most Americans these days.
You could easily run up medical bills to six figures, which, based on my assumptions, you might have no practical way of paying.
If that should be the case, someone else (taxpayers) will foot the bill in one way or another. (County hospital writes it off, asks for grants (which have to come from someone's pocket in one way or another), loses money, charges others more to make up for uncollectable medical bills). So others end up paying the bill.
But no one dares call that old and time honored system socialism, because that's just a step away from communism.
So if you really don't want help, your statement holds water, but if you have to ask for help, it leaks a little . . . Bluntly, if you get messed up and I have to help pay for it, it really is somebody else's business. Gets down to socialism, whether you do it indirectly like now ( which is very costly) or you make sure everybody helps. But socialism is such a loaded word that lots of people can't see past it.
Yeppers. Some, and I repeat...some, are no different than at least the leadership of the Democratic Party. That is where the real scumbags are.
On the other hand, the Tea Party movement was initiated by the common people, and I happen to know that the "common people" are made up of both Democrats and Republicans. There were some Democrats at the Tea Party rallies as well. What we need are more "political leaders and Congressional representatives" that don't give a whit about what the news media says.
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