{"id":10232,"date":"2013-04-08T04:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2013-04-08T04:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:16:32","slug":"the-problem-with-republicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/the-problem-with-republicare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with RepubliCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

While far too many are focused on the proposed cuts to the safety net contained in Obama\u2019s budget, not enough are focused on how the Republican Party is trying trash the safety net.  One of the best examples of how they are doing so is RepubliCare. as this excellent editorial by Paul Krugman demonstrates.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RepubliCare\"President Obama will soon release a new budget, and the commentary is already flowing fast and furious. Progressives are angry (with good reason) over proposed cuts to Social Security; conservatives are denouncing the call for more revenues. But it\u2019s all Kabuki. Since House Republicans will block anything Mr. Obama proposes, his budget is best seen not as policy but as positioning, an attempt to gain praise from \u201ccentrist\u201d pundits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

No, the real policy action at this point is in the states, where the question is, How many Americans will be denied essential health care in the name of freedom? <\/p>\n

I\u2019m referring, of course, to the question of how many Republican governors will reject the Medicaid expansion that is a key part of Obamacare. What does that have to do with freedom? In reality, nothing. But when it comes to politics, it\u2019s a different story. <\/p>\n

It goes without saying that Republicans oppose any expansion of programs that help the less fortunate \u2014 along with tax cuts for the wealthy, such opposition is pretty much what defines modern conservatism<\/strong>. But they seem to be having more trouble than in the past defending their opposition without simply coming across as big meanies. <\/p>\n

Specifically, the time-honored practice of attacking beneficiaries of government programs as undeserving malingerers doesn\u2019t play the way it used to. When Ronald Reagan spoke about welfare queens driving Cadillacs, it resonated with many voters. When Mitt Romney was caught on tape sneering at the 47 percent, not so much<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Click through the rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ever since Obama first revealed that his budget contains entitlement cuts, I have opined that he was making a proposal that would never come to fruition t stake out political territory  I don\u2019t feel so lonely anymore, now that Krugman has come out with the same explanation I have been giving.  I\u2019m sure he did not get the idea from me.  Rather, it\u2019s just that great minds fall in the same ditch. \"Winking<\/font><\/p>\n

The following map is a mere shadow of a fantastic interactive version from The Advisory Board<\/a>.  Click through<\/a> to play with it for more information on Medicaid expansion about your state and others.<\/font><\/p>\n

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While far too many are focused on the proposed cuts to the safety net contained in Obama\u2019s budget, not enough are focused on how the Republican Party is trying trash the safety net.  One of the best examples of how they are doing so is RepubliCare. as this excellent editorial by Paul Krugman demonstrates. President […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}