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Title: Rand Paul: Senate GOP Decides to Keep Obamacare
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... te-gop-decides-keep-obamacare/
Published: Jul 12, 2017
Author: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
Post Date: 2017-07-12 15:25:50 by Tooconservative
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Views: 4837
Comments: 19
What happened? Now too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars into a bill that doesn’t repeal Obamacare and feeds Big Insurance a huge bailout. Obamacare regulations? Still here. Taxes? Many still in place, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. Insurance company bailouts? Those, too. Remember when Republicans complained about Obamacare’s risk corridors? Remember when we called the corridors nothing more than insurance company bailouts? I remember when one prominent GOP candidate during a presidential debate explicitly called out the Obamacare risk corridors as a bailout to insurance companies. Does anyone else? Now, the Senate GOP plan being put forward is chock full of insurance bailout money – to the tune of nearly $200 billion. Republicans, present company excluded, now support the idea of lowering your insurance premium by giving a subsidy to the insurance company. Remarkable. If the GOP now supports an insurance stabilization fund to lower insurance prices, maybe they now support a New Car stabilization fund to lower the price of cars. Or maybe the GOP would support an iPhone stabilization fund to lower the price of phones. The possibilities are limitless once you accept that the federal government should subsidize prices. I remember when Republicans favored the free choice of the marketplace. The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. I want to repeat that so everyone realizes why I’ll vote “no” as it stands now: The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. Not even close. In fact, the Senate GOP bill codifies and likely expands many aspects of Obamacare. The Senate Obamacare-lite bill codifies a federal entitlement to insurance. With the Senate GOP bill, Republicans, for the first time, will signal that they favor a key aspect of Obamacare – federal taxpayer funding of private insurance purchases. The bill will transfer billions of dollars to people who will then transfer billions of dollars to insurance companies. What a great business model – encourage the federal government to use taxpayer money to buy a private company’s product. Great business model, that is, if you are Big Insurance. Remarkable. The Senate Obamacare-lite bill does what the Democrats forgot to do – appropriate billions for Obamacare’s cost-sharing reductions, aka subsidies. Really? Republicans are going to fund Obamacare subsidies that the Democrats forgot to fund? Doesn’t sound much like repeal to me. One might even argue it’s worse than Obamacare-lite because it actually creates a giant superfund to bail out the insurance companies – something even the Democrats feared to do. I was first elected in the heady days of the Tea Party Tidal Wave, when tens of thousands of citizens gathered on the central city lawn to protest Big Government, Big Debt, and a government takeover of health care. This citizenry won in four elections. Each time, the GOP establishment told conservatives, “We can’t repeal Obamacare until we have all three branches of government.” Finally, in 2016, that came to pass. Republicans now control all three branches of government. And . . . the best that is offered is Obamacare-lite: keeping the Obamacare subsidies, keeping some of the Obamacare taxes, creating a giant insurance bailout superfund, and keeping most of the Obamacare regulations. Shame. Shame on many in the GOP for promising repeal and instead affirming, keeping, and, in some cases, expanding Obamacare. What a shame. 
I miss the old days, when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare. Republicans across the country and every member of my caucus campaigned on repeal – often declaring they would tear out Obamacare “root and branch!”
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Rand writing a little op-ed here, much as his dad used to distribute his weekly editorials for free to newspapers, newsletters, magazines.(1 image)
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Rand Paul is completely right here.
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
I recall George Bush Senior and his 'no new taxes' pledge.
It seems to me that the GOP has been promising us 'repeal 0bamacare' for a lot longer than Bush Senior promised no new taxes, ranted at the public and ran harder in elections on it than even Bush did.
They may reap what they've sown. How can we be satisfied when they are clearly rescuing 0bamacare, not repealing it.
For the system to have integrity, each party should enact the agenda that they campaigned on. Otherwise, what use is our vote if they get away with 7 years of baldfaced lies and then never enact their single most clear campaign theme?
If they don't fix this, they will lose control of Congress in 2018, I think.
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If they don't fix this, they will lose control of Congress in 2018, I think.
If they don't fix this, they SHOULD lose control of Congress in 2018. And for a long, long time thereafter.
This is not a little thing.
This is a baldfaced, in-your-face, direct, repeated lie, told over and over again, to get power.
It is not acceptable. It will not be accepted. It is a death penalty offense for the Republican Party.
I have always said that the difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats do what they say they are going to do. They campaign on it, and when they have power, they DO it, to the very greatest extent they can.
When they fall from power BECAUSE of that, they fight a tenacious rearguard action - through the courts and the filibuster and state houses and the civil servants - to hold onto their gains.
When they get power back, they continue to push, with power, to advance their agenda.
Their agenda is utterly clear and always has been. They say what they want, and when they win, they do it.
I have likewise always said, for years and years - to much hatred in response - that Republicans are lying shitstains. They CAMPAIGN on certain things - repealing Roe, no new taxes, repealing Obamacare - but when they have actual POWER, they appoint justices that defend Roe, they impose new taxes, and now, they uphold healthcare.
They have their reasons, and their reasons are that they are advancing their REAL agenda, which has very little to do with the lies they feed to the duped rube bubbas whom they stampede into voting for them election cycle after election cycle.
Democrats are evil and principled - what they want is generally quite bad, and they are sincere, determined and completely honest about what it is.
Republican leaders are lying shitstains. Republican voters are duped rubes.
I've said it before - and endured the endless carping of the duped rubes, and been called a Democrat - and every time the Republicans do it AGAIN, just exactly as I predicted time and again - it makes me feel so vindicated, and so very much smarter than the duped rube Republicans who bark at me like retards, because I've insulted their eminently insultworthy party - them for being idiots, and their leaders for being lying pieces of shit.
Republican leaders are lying pieces of shit. Republican voters who stay loyal are abused girlfriends who keep going back for more "because he really loves me". Stupid cunts.
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