{"id":3898,"date":"2011-01-20T10:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2011-01-20T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:12:50","slug":"the-health-care-fight-begins-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/the-health-care-fight-begins-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Health Care Fight Begins Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans, especially Joe Wilson (R-SC), are crowing that they have repealed Obamacare, as though yesterday\u2019s House Vote were anything more than political theatre.  Rachel Maddow, with Rep. Bill McDermott (D-WA), had some fun at their expense, while exposing the panoply of Republican lies surrounding issue.  But if you think this ends the health care fight, think again.  Republicans have invested too much political capital in this sham to give it up.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"20youlie\"Republicans were pretty excited about yesterday’s House vote to repeal health care reform. A bit too excited. <\/p>\n

"WE JUST REPEALED OBAMACARE<\/strong>!" Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) tweeted in all caps, exhibiting the same exuberance with which he screamed at President Obama during last year’s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

Sarah Palin aide Rebecca Mansour retweeted an ally who tipped his hat. "Governor Palin’s hard work and sacrifice made today’s repeal of ObamaCare possible. Please tell the Governor Thank You."<\/p>\n

One correct response to these statements is, "YOU LIE!<\/font><\/strong>"\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s Rachel:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The first tactic I expect is to blame Senate Democrats for having the audacity to block their bill.  The horrors!<\/font><\/p>\n

Next, they will try to prevent it\u2019s implementation by chipping away at it\u2019s funding in the budget.  That\u2019s where the real battle will take place.<\/font><\/p>\n

The Republicans say their plan is based around two things: tort reform and allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines.  I would not mind seeing some responsible tort reform, such as making the suing attorney pay the defending attorney\u2019s fees if a lawsuit is ruled frivolous.  But that\u2019s not what Republicans mean.  They want to cap punitive damages, whether a case warrants them or not.  Punitive damages must be left up to courts and juries.  Selling insurance across state lines allows insurance companies to offer insurance only in states that have no regulations for consumer protection, allowing to sell junk insurance that turns to vapor as soon as the policy holder gets sick.  That\u2019s all RepubliCare has to offer.<\/font><\/p>\n

We will need to keep harassing our Senators to hold the line.<\/font><\/p>\n

In time, Re will remove Republicans from power again, and when we do, we need to bolster the current bill with a Medicare for All public option, available to anyone who wants it.  Insurance companies will then have a choice to offer good service at a fair price or to go out of business.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans, especially Joe Wilson (R-SC), are crowing that they have repealed Obamacare, as though yesterday\u2019s House Vote were anything more than political theatre.  Rachel Maddow, with Rep. Bill McDermott (D-WA), had some fun at their expense, while exposing the panoply of Republican lies surrounding issue.  But if you think this ends the health care fight, […]<\/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-3898","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\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}