And that’s not even counting the millions of Americans who have gained coverage through expansion of Medicaid (not here in Virginia, due to Republicans’ politically-driven idiocy and viciousness), the hundreds of millions of Americans who now have more healthcare benefits and protections (e.g., no exclusions for preexisting conditions), the fact that healthcare costs are rising more slowly under the Affordable Care Act, etc., etc.
The bottom line, according to President Obama, is that “this thing is working.” That’s why Obama (and a lot of other people) finds it “strange that the Republican position on this law is still stuck in the same place that it has always been; they can’t bring themselves to admit hat the Affordable Care Act is working.” Thus, Republicans said: “nobody would sign up; they were wrong about that. They said it would be unaffordable for the country; they were wrong about that. They were wrong to keep trying to repeal a law that is working when they have no alternative answer for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions who’d be denied coverage again or every woman who’d be charged more for just being a woman again.”
Republicans: wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong some more. Sensing a pattern here? Meanwhile, let’s repeat for emphasis: the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” is working. And that’s in SPITE of relentless Republican efforts to try to sabotage it, slow it down, make it less effective than it could be, you name it. Fortunately for the country, Republicans don’t control the White House or the U.S. Senate. Unfortunately for the country, they DO have the power to do quite a bit of damage. Which is about the only thing they’re good at, by the way. Remind me again: why does ANYONE vote for people who want Americans to go backwards and be worse off?
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