Hi, GOP: You Are Terrible and Obamacare Jr. Stinks

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

When Paul Ryan and his congressional clown car of alleged conservatives surprised us by just sort of dropping Obamacare Jr. on us, I wasn’t surprised to see them trip all over their Guccis during the utterly inept roll out. These nimrods couldn’t effectively communicate to Elizabeth Warren with smoke signals. But even I was shocked at how transcendently crappy their proposed Obamacare replacement is. Let me put it this way: the only thing that steaming pile of failure would be good for is as the key prop in a very specialized, niche German porno film.

Seriously, how many times do we have to tell you? Obamacare must die. Kill it dead – with fire!


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When are you going to get it through your wonk spheres that we don’t want a government-led health care system that leaves the people who infest D.C. in charge? We don’t need a “plan” because 85 percent of us already have a plan – it’s called “Taking responsibility for supporting ourselves and our families like damn adults.”

Yeah, we really mean it when we say we want Obamacare gone. DOA. Kaput. Call it over to the mob boss’s house under the pretense that it’s going to be made, then shoot it through the face so its mother can’t give it an open coffin at the funeral.

Are you feelin’ us now?

Instead of what we want and what you have been promising us, we get handed this Technicolor yawn of complex rules, regulations and handouts that ends up with those of us who take responsibility for ourselves once again getting stuck with the bill for the freeloaders who won’t. You babble about “empowerment,” but you people are still in the driver’s seat. It doesn’t let us choose what our insurance covers. It doesn’t let us buy across state lines. It doesn’t even have a price tag attached – apparently we have to pass it to find out what’s in it.

And Obamacare Jr. operates under the premise that if you don’t want to spend your money on health insurance, that’s A-OK. Somebody else – which means the GOP’s base, us – will pick up the tab for your irresponsibility. That’s a big problem. You central planners pretending to be conservatives have spent so long in your wonky cesspit of policy onanism that you have forgotten what must be the core, unchallenged principle behind any conservative policy.

Everybody needs to pay for his own stuff.

The whole stupid goal of your stupid fake Obamacare replacement is the same stupid goal of the stupid original – to ensure that nimrods who refuse to carry their weight never, ever have to accept the consequences of their choices.

“Want to save money by not buying health insurance when you’re feelin’ fine? Don’t worry! Those suckers who act like responsible adults will just pay more so that when you come down with a cold you can slide right onto a policy because we’ll ban discrimination based on preexisting conditions!” Except people with preexisting conditions – no, not including those moving between insurers when changing jobs – should totally be discriminated against because they didn’t buy health insurance!

Obamacare Jr. continues to conflate health insurance – which should hedge people against unexpected expenses – with routine health care, like check-ups and birth control, that people ought to pay for out of pocket. What you are proposing is not even insurance – you are proposing redistribution of our earnings, and we want it stopped.

Step One: Repeal Obamacare. Put a stake through its heart and leave its head on a pike. So maybe the Democrats won’t vote for a replacement. Good. They’re the party of trough-gorging welfare cheats, not us. It’s their constituents who want the free stuff – yours are the sheep these bums shear. No Obamacare replacement is their problem. See how long the Dems can play the obstruction game with their freeloading voters screaming “Gimme!”

Step Two: Stop trying to plan everything. We can do it ourselves. Lift the regulations and let us buy whatever coverage we want from whatever state we want. Operate under the general principle that every American adult is expected to pay for his own healthcare. Most importantly, stop trying to ameliorate the consequences of bad decisions. If you want to have fewer bad decisions, the very best way to achieve that lofty goal is to let bad things happen to stupid people.

Done. There’s your health care reform.

See, there’s not very much there because you shouldn’t be doing very much. The federal government should barely have anything to do with health care at all. I’ve reviewed the Constitution and checked behind every penumbra and emanation, and paying for other people’s abortions and Viagra just isn’t in there. Your catering to the takers is converting the United States of America from a great nation into a less-efficient Blue Cross with a shrinking army.

Do what you promised. We sent you to Washington to kill Obamacare. We want it dead. We don’t want a zombie sequel operating under the same flawed premises and using the same central planning approach that permanently enshrines yet another unaffordable entitlement. And yeah, I know President Trump is backing you (kinda, sorta, for now), but wasn’t our big problem with him that he was not a conservative ideologue? I don’t expect hardcore conservative solutions from him because, unlike you, he never sold himself to us as a hardcore conservative. You’re supposed to be the hardcore conservative ideologues, but instead you’re being softcore conservative idiots.

We’re serious, but you aren’t listening. You better. Because we’re all watching, and if you have to be ritually sacrificed on the primary ballot box we’re totally good with that. You are politically expendable, and you have one chance to do this right. You’re screwing it up. Remove your collective heads from your collective fourth point of contact – which is where I assume you pulled this plan from – and start doing what we damn well sent you to Washington to do.

This is the big one. Stop screwing up.

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James the Wanderer

One hundred thousand million thumbs-up.

hardscrabble farmer

I find no fault in this.

starfcker
starfcker

Well you should. This essay isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Lyin ryan could ram whatever Kurt desires through the house, but it stops dead in the senate. Mcconnell only has 52 of the needed 60 votes. And obamacare remains the law of the land, just like the establishment wants. Ryan’s bill is tailored to the rules of reconcilliation in the senate. It only needs 51 votes to pass. Then Tom Price can start deconstructing the regulatory body of obamacare from the inside. This bill will pass, easily. It’s a start to the process. Kurt is carrying water for the chamber of commerce. His bought and paid for ‘opinion’ is nonsense. Watch.

Anonymous
Anonymous

All this just means, at worst, that it can’t be repealed for the rest of this FY. So, let it stay in force until October and then kill it w/ 50 votes. Done.

Anonymous
Anonymous

And while they are at it, the Repubs ought to repeal this silly “Byrd” rule that Harry Reid created to allow filibusters to occur without anyone doing any actual filibustering.

Fergus
Fergus

Star-you are a true fcker. Do not fund the bill, you need 51 votes to do it in the senate skippy.

But when we hear someone as well informed as you, we all are awe struck at how far the RINOs will go to lie.

TYou know Gruber and Ashley Jude may speak for Demorats, now so do you.

PPathetic ignorance-or just plain mendacity.

starfcker
starfcker

“Pathetic ignorance.” All I can say fergie, is reading is fundamental, and the opinions of never Trumpers don’t mean squat. Let’s look back at little schfincters crystal ball, shall we?
http://ijr.com/opinion/2015/08/246358-youre-a-fool-if-youre-supporting-donald-trump-and-youre-being-exploited/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=floating-sidebar&utm_campaign=Sharing

BL
BL

Star- Let me ask you, when is tRump going to fix Obamacare? Next year, the year after that, never? A real answer not an excuse.

No tax reform announced today, not a surprise. All I have seen is Trump and his family line their pockets. We are going in the shitter and the prez and family have been granted 38 new trademark licenses in China including some for escort services. NICE. It’s almost mind boggling the corruption and the lemmings still blubber on.

starfcker
starfcker

The timetable is to vote on it by April. Trump can’t do tax reform before obamacare. Corporate America would prefer to keep obamacare AND get a big tax break. So you can’t give them their candy first.

MMinLamesa
MMinLamesa

After ObamaCare passed in 09, they(Boehner et.al.) said give us the House back and in 2010, Rs gained the most seats in like 60 years and took the House back.

And man did the repeal ObamaCare bills fly. No replace bullshit either, just flat out kill it. Hey, but no worries, They knew Obama would veto it if it some way made it through the dem controlled Senate. Which of course it didn’t, so we heard…

Give us the Senate, which we did in 2014 and more death to ObamaCare bills flew-up to 62!! that repealed all or parts of it-most with absolutely no replacement mechanisms. Again, no worries, Obama stomped them out like an old butt. So of course we heard, we need the WH.

Which the Rs got in ’16 and all of a sudden, the repeal side has been joined by his kid brother, replace.

So now what do we hear? Aww shucks, you pee-ons, we have to do this incrementally because….(drum roll) we need 60 votes in the Senate to repeal it.

Anyone for some 3-card Monte while we wait?

Trump better cut this crap about renting football stadiums to rally against anyone on board with this bullshit and fucking do what he promised.

Anonymous
Anonymous

How does he do that?

Declare Obamacare repealed and write new legislation he declares law on his own?

I doubt the Courts would let him get away with that, they won’t even let him write fully legal and within his delegated powers immigration orders.

Fergus
Fergus

How long have you been on the Soros payroll or are you just Gruber posting?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I see you want to avoid the question.

CCRider
CCRider

You nailed it MM. It’s the DC bullshit badminton game. Bat the issue back and forth and get the minnows to swarm from one side of the lake to the other. It’s just so goddamn sad to know it works for those human lice every time. Whoever invented democracy was a fucking genius.

BL
BL

Gives Trump a pass for backing GOP revamp of Obamacare. Healthcare insurers will have a windfall of 1 BILLION dollars under the Repugnant/Trump plan. Average Joe keeps paying 12K per year healthcare premiums and gets NOTHING.

COMPLETE FAIL

Trump has them bowling for votes- story on Drudge

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I’m fine with the outrage, but it’s misdirected. The logical thing to do is to have catastrophic-only insurance and pay cash for everything else. What makes that impossible is the fake-billing system where a hospital sends you a bill for $20,000 for something that they’ll consider “paid in full” upon payment (by an insurance company) of, say, $7,000. Denninger says the provider-insurer collusion is already illegal under existing law. He’s probably right, but it wouldn’t hurt for congress to make that explicit and authorize more funding for investigating, prosecuting and imprisoning colluders. They should do that first. The “how to pay for” question is a secondary one.

Fergus
Fergus

Who ties your shoelaces for you. Do you realize what you are saying? Do you write speeches for Sen. Kaine or Warren?

Anon
Anon

Yea, good luck with that. The bought and paid for Repubs and dem-o-rats will NEVER actually do anything that would make medical care cash and carry. As long as the pharma and insurance lobbies OWN the government, we are shit out of luck. Answer, simply take care of yourself. If you need surgery, fly to Oklahoma and go to OK surgery center. Locally, use primary are concierge doctors. Stay the hell out of the insurance “healthcare” scam, and all this Theatre means nothing.

Ed
Ed

The GOP reminds me of Zeek the dog from the Far Side cartoons. Their sneaky schemes are openly stupid to everyone but them. They really thought nobody would notice if they just did a mild edit of the old Hillarycare from 1998 and called it a repeal.

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Fergus
Fergus

Great cartoon but this looks like Ryan trying to put the people in the washer with his RINOcare. 33% less calories but the same great taste of Obamacare.

Right.

Dutchman
Dutchman

I heard on the radio today about giving tax credits to help pay health insurance.

It’s stupid, stupid, stupid. The problem is the cost. And the costs will keep rising at 5 to 7% every year. And insurance adds to the cost.

Health insurance has no cash value, no loyalty value. You stop paying the insurance and you have nothing.

BSHJ
BSHJ

The title of this post says it all.

CCRider
CCRider

There’s no way to unfuck 40 years of political finagling and corporate skulduggery. The whole shit dirigible is going to have to pull a Hindenburg and we can start over-hopefully as sovereign individuals instead of slaves.

monger
monger

Statist will only find Statist solutions.

Fergus
Fergus

Bingo-winner.

Brian
Brian

Fucking cock gobbling ass hats. What part of “Repeal” is so hard to understand?

GTFO of things government isn’t supposed to do. Then they wonder why we fucking hate them.

Middle Aged Mad Gnome
Middle Aged Mad Gnome

Great examples of stupid ignorance and malicious ignorance. Some people must think Trump is a king who can make things happen with a wave of his scepter. And the never-Trumpers can’t wait to scream in faux outrage when Trump is forced to deal with a GOP leadership that is ready, willing, and able to collude with the Democrats to impeach him if the occasion arises. 6 weeks into his Presidency I’m willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.

TampaRed
TampaRed

Gnome,
I’m willing to cut Trump some slack for things he’s trying to do that are being opposed by Congress and/or opposition groups.
However,he seems to be pushing this substitute hard so no I’m not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Pauncho
Pauncho

Here’s a little civics lesson for all of you. Paul Ryan “represents” the people of Wisconsin. Do you know who is the biggest employer in that state? Aurora Health Care. Aurora is “not for profit” ,which really means that it is tax exempt. They make BILLIONS, yet pay NO TAXES! How can this be? Easy. Step one: charge $100 for an aspirin. Step two: “settle” for $5 for that aspirin. Step three: claim a $95 loss on that aspirin. Voila, no taxes. Our country now runs under the ideal of “one dollar, one vote”. Get this through your thick skulls: unless you can outbid Aurora, what you think, what you want, doesn’t matter. Can you buy a congresswoman? (Aurora has Ryan’s balls in a glass jar in their lobby) Then shut the fuck up. Oh, and keep paying those taxes you owe.

Anon
Anon

DING DING DING ^^^^^ We have a winner. THAT is the problem, and why NONE of these asshats will EVER work in our best interest. Until WE THE PEOPLE demand representation, the Aurora Health Care’s will be making all of the decisions on this one. WE are just there to appease on the front end, and the theater continues. This is just act one though, stick around for the faux outrage and stupidity of the cast coming up in Debt Ceiling wrangling 2.0. Each side of the bought and paid for crooks will jockey for top billing “making the hard choices” and blathering about how the country will fall in to deadbeat status if we don’t extend the credit limit. News flash – Feds have been in deadbeat status since about 1971, they just won’t acknowledge it. Notice how I say Feds, instead of US. WE never authorized this, were not consulted on this, and some of us were not even BORN yet. This whole thing is a front end theater production on a back end, already decided scam, run by the 1 dollar, 1 vote (great analogy) organization we call congress.

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe

I went thru a pack of cigs and a Big Gulp tryin to read all this shxt, all I got was a headache. Gonna grab some Lardburgers , kick back and watch me some good teevee.

TampaRed
TampaRed

How ’bout some Old Milwaukee with the lardburgers?It’s after 8am,which means the sun is up-time to have a beer.

James A. Hood
James A. Hood

Give us the same health care plan that congress has! We know that both the house and the senate can pass that plan. Deport all of the illegals and use the saved monies to fund it and we should be fine. Otherwise it is still the practice of when in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout and do nothing as they have shown they can do well.

PatrioTEA
PatrioTEA

Now that’s PLAN!

PatrioTEA
PatrioTEA

What we need is a total free market system with a slight government fraud and monopoly oversight to prevent the Insurance Companies from colluding with the Hospitals to double bill & overcharge us.

Fred FStone
Fred FStone

IF this phase one bill passes – the Repubs will be slaughtered in the 2018 elections and Trump will be a lame duck for the rest of his term.

The phase 2 &3 parts that he is insistent are just down the road, clearly will never see the light of day. So in the end we get some abomination of Obamacare that is worse than the original.

The details in this bill are horrendous and just another huge subsidy to the health care mafia.

Fourth Turning wins again. Trump loses.

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