All the Republicans screeching about ‘ObamaCare’…They adamantly refuse to go along with the Medicare expansion…good…they can keep their current Medicaid with most states covering folks up to 50% of the poverty line and the Federal Government reimbursing them, on average, 50% of their expenditures or they can have, under the expanded Medicare provision of the Health Care Reform Act, folks covered up to 133% of the poverty line with the Federal Government paying 100% for three years and 95% afterward. They can cover less people for more money or more people for less money…sure it is optional. They can hate Obama more than they care about their constituents. When folks start leaving these idiotic states and voting the radical elitists out, they will come around. It will be funny to see all these self-righteous Obama haters groveling up to the bar…eating crow…looking more and more like their two-faced presidential candidate.
Oh, call it a tax or call it making folks responsible for their own health care…getting the free-loaders out of the system…I thought that was a Republican ideal? Not only will folks already with insurance NOT pay a tax, they will find their premiums going down when it goes into effect due to larger insurance pooling. The whole idea is a simple business idea that even Mitt should get – the larger the market the more the production and overhead costs come down. Mitt even defended the mandatory requirement of “RomneyCare” with this line of reasoning before he found his latest religion on the matter – hypocrite. God forbid that we tax the free-loaders…is that a Republican ideal? In any case, the lie of the Republican elite will be everyone will be taxed. Conveniently, they cannot seem to make fine distinctions. I suppose this has to do with orders from the top – Grover Norquist.
Why is it so hard to find consistency in Republican ideology these days? Even the academic elites in conservatism run from debates when empirical facts that cannot be spun are involved. This is so unlike the Republicans of old…the ones that made Justice Roberts what he is…
An ideology is bankrupt when it is reduced to sophistry and fanaticism.