Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
The biggest thing about Obamacare is the middle class simply can't afford it. It's going to crash just like the mortgage meltdown of 2008.
That may be. I honestly don't know much about Obamacare because it doesn't effect me or my partner. We get our insurance through the private market and have basically the same plan as before Obamacare. Since you have never steered me wrong, and probably know much more than I about it, I will assume you and the repubs are correct, it will crash and burn. So wouldn't the thing to do be for a bipartisan effort to fix it. Keep what's good and fix what's bad, in an effort to keep as many as possible insured, at as reasonable price as possible?

It doesn't make sense to me that the greatest, richest country in the world can't find a way to provide reasonable healthcare for it's citizens when other countries are able to. Personally I think Trump and half the republicans are opposed to Obamacare because it is called "Obamacare". If it had not been called Obamacare and it's real name, the Affordable care act, had taken hold, They would be more likely willing to work on a fix. That is retarded.
Don't change your opinions on account of me. I'm just a dummass politard like all the rest. I jumped on the Trump bandwagon early because I had enough of career politicians, democrat and republican, that lie like hell to get elected then do whatever they want when in office. Americans are libertarian socialists. Taxation in any form is a socialist policy. So we all vary in our opinions as to how much socialism this country needs. I'm in the camp that says we have enough already. Lefties figure we don't have enough. And far lefties are really communists masquerading as socialists. The more the country tilts to the left the more they want it to keep tilting that way. They have been incrementally heading this country toward full blown communism for 100 years. Somebody has to stop it.

Someone has to interupt the flow to the left. Trump is that person. I wanted to see what a person like Trump, so rich he can't be bought, and not a career politician, would do in office. I got my wish and I'm loving it. He doesn't act like a politician. The establishment politicians are well practiced at talking for 20 minutes without saying anything. He says what he feels. The establishment just does not know what to do when Trump tells them, both democrats and republicans to fuck off and die or calls them idiots. I love it.

Democrats don't want repeal and replace but they know Obamacare needs to be fixed. They want to keep the name. Repeal and replace came down to the John McCain vote. Snowe is positioning herself to run for Governor of Maine so has a half assed lame reason for voting no. I have Alaska history and hate the Murkowski's just like the rest of my family that lives there. Lisa's father was a stone cold crooked Senator and Governor that got exposed by Sarah Palin. But Lisa is right about Alaskan health care. It's the highest cost in the nation and Alaskans would get screwed bigtime without some kind of exemption. I can understand her vote.

Now we come to the great American hero, John McCain. What was his excuse? None. Nada. He knew he was going to be the deciding vote. It was his big chance to get back at Trump for what he (Trump) said about him during the election. McCain did just that. He might have been a hero in the sixties but in the 21st century he's a dirty little coward. When he stuck it to Trump he stuck it to the American people. But he didn't give a rat's ass. He just wanted revenge. In lieu of shriveling up and slowly dying from brain cancer I suggest he put a bullet in his head ASAP.