All you wanted was a repeal of Obamacare, yet your only getting a 1/3 of your wish – PB/TK
Americans Didn’t Ask for a Fix, But for Full Repeal of Obamacare By Twila Brase | March 16, 2017
Those against repealing Obamacare are gleeful this week after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that “24 million fewer people will have health insurance by 2026 under the House GOP plan to replace Obamacare,” reported Forbes.com.
Forbes added that the projection is not surprising and “quite likely overstated,” and that the CBO actually makes the bill look “better than expected,” with points showing how the bill can be improved.
The CBO has missed the mark before, unable to gauge how a health insurance marketplace should work. Forbes reported the same in its coverage.
The CBO has issued inaccurate predictions of the cost of Obamacare and enrollment in Obamacare exchanges, despite repeated revisions. Yes, repeal will cause Americans to go through changes, but Obamacare changed people’s lives for the worse, from prices to coverage to choices about care. Repealing Obamacare will release the federal controls and give Americans back the affordable catastrophic coverage they lost when it was prohibited by the ACA. Therefore, it is crucial to repeal Obamacare completely.
The only thing the American people actually asked for in the last three elections was repeal. And repeal isn’t even in this bill, except for the individual and employer mandates and almost all the taxes. Nothing about the Republican bill speaks to the hearts and minds of the American people hurting from impossibly high premiums and dangerously narrow networks. Americans voted for Republicans because they wanted repeal. This replacement bill looks and feels like a Republican version of Obamacare. Republicans should pass a real repeal bill, or they’ll find themselves on the losing end of this debate, along with the American people.
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