GOP Rep asks for Obamacare horror stories

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers took to Facebook to get Obamacare horror stories.

LOL

I wonder what Ted Cruz is going to post.

 

[HomerJS]

Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers took to Facebook to get Obamacare horror stories.

LOL

I wonder what Ted Cruz is going to post.

2x LOL!!

 

[zinfamous]

haha

Cathy, you barely work, spend most of your time catering to special interests so you can be re-elected.. All while receiving a large wage and the best health insurance and care. Stop telling us how it doesn't work while enjoying your tax payer funded care and life.

 

[bpatters69]

Here is an idea... instead of building another huge bureaucracy with Obamacare.... wait for it.... why not fix Medicare or Medicaid and prevent the billions lost in fraud and then expand Medicare to cover the 30 million who need insurance? I know. It makes too much sense. Let's just build another bloated, inefficient govt entity vs fixing what we have and using what we have.

 

[bpatters69]

haha

Cathy, you barely work, spend most of your time catering to special interests so you can be re-elected.. All while receiving a large wage and the best health insurance and care. Stop telling us how it doesn't work while enjoying your tax payer funded care and life.

And this make her different from all of the other politicians in DC....? Dem or Pub

 

[trenchfoot]

I don't see any reason why Repub legislators need to ask for Obamacare horror stories when they usually do a really good job of scripting their very own. I guess these Repub congress critters have finally run out of horrific nightmarish tall tale scenarios of their own.

 

[dank69]

I don't see any reason why Repub legislators need to ask for Obamacare horror stories when they usually do a really good job of scripting their very own. I guess these Repub congress critters have finally run out of horrific nightmarish tall tales of their own.

All their predictions of doom and gloom have been proven wrong so she is searching for new lines of attack. She doesn't realize she can just keep spouting the same lies like the rest of the GOP.

 

[zinfamous]

And this make her different from all of the other politicians in DC....? Dem or Pub

It makes her different from the ones that don't wear their hypocrisy on their faces, yes.

as far as fellating all the lobbyists--yes, they all do that. But this isn't the specific subject at hand. try to keep up.

 

[trenchfoot]

All their predictions of doom and gloom have been proven wrong so she is searching for new lines of attack. She doesn't realize she can just keep spouting the same lies like the rest of the GOP.

So true. I just wonder when the Repubs are going to realize that all they have to do to make their myopic hatred of Obamacare go away is to draft an identical law while adding in the improvements that 20-20 hindsight provides and rename it some way that gives themselves all the credit for the whole idea.

I mean, seeing as if they're progressively cornering themselves as more time passes and the ACA is disproving all of those silly horror stories the Repubs came up with to pursue their agenda of "give nothing - take everything" from Pres. Obama, the least they can do is re-direct their ire and desire for another eight years of Neocon Valhalla toward actually doing something positive for a change.....you know, like passing legislation that actually benefits the middle class and the poor instead of just the very rich that owns their party.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Because they have jack shit. And, will continue to have jack shit.

 

[theeedude]

Here is an idea... instead of building another huge bureaucracy with Obamacare.... wait for it.... why not fix Medicare or Medicaid and prevent the billions lost in fraud and then expand Medicare to cover the 30 million who need insurance? I know. It makes too much sense. Let's just build another bloated, inefficient govt entity vs fixing what we have and using what we have.

Have Republicans passed a law to "fix" Medicare? No, they passed Obamacare repeal 50 times instead.

 

[Moonbeam]

The job of the CBD is to demonize the other. The pathological part of a nation always seeks to turn normal people into monsters by projecting their own pathology onto them.

Then guilt, shame, and denial take over preventing them from seeing it. In this way conservatives wind up becoming what they fear. They become monsters, evil that will not see itself or recognize its evil. They become the true, the fanatical believers and holy warriors, doing the work of God bringing into existence a paradisiacal altered reality. We are experiencing a mass psychotic outbreak of this contagion.

 

[HomerJS]

Here is an idea... instead of building another huge bureaucracy with Obamacare.... wait for it.... why not fix Medicare or Medicaid and prevent the billions lost in fraud and then expand Medicare to cover the 30 million who need insurance? I know. It makes too much sense. Let's just build another bloated, inefficient govt entity vs fixing what we have and using what we have.

That idea was called single payer. Righties had even more of a cow and red state Dems were quaking. They dropped that in order to get the ACA passed.

 

[zinfamous]

So true. I just wonder when the Repubs are going to realize that all they have to do to make their myopic hatred of Obamacare go away is to draft an identical law while adding in the improvements that 20-20 hindsight provides and rename it some way that gives themselves all the credit for the whole idea.

I mean, seeing as if they're progressively cornering themselves as more time passes and the ACA is disproving all of those silly horror stories the Repubs came up with to pursue their agenda of "give nothing - take everything" from Pres. Obama, the least they can do is re-direct their ire and desire for another eight years of Neocon Valhalla toward actually doing something positive for a change.....you know, like passing legislation that actually benefits the middle class and the poor instead of just the very rich that owns their party.

eh, Repubs have the never-ending threat of "the real horror will be realized 5 years from now, 10 years from now, 15 years...you know, when it is 'fully implemented." They can fall back on that statement in perpetuity, and the mindless sheep will continue shoveling the talking points into their drooling maws.

These handlers are well-versed in this point, as are their sheep: It's the long-worn motto of The Acolytes of the Exalted Church of Saint Reagan: "Trickle down works! any day now, any day...."

etc.

 

[bpatters69]

Have Republicans passed a law to "fix" Medicare? No, they passed Obamacare repeal 50 times instead.

Have the Dems passed a law to fix Medicare?

 

[JDawg1536]

The Obamacare horror stories are being stored in the same place as all the horror stories about the DADT repeal.

 

[soundforbjt]

She wants horror stories and she doesn't read/know about P&N???

 

[Newell Steamer]

Top comments:

Why don't you ask for people to tell their stories instead of just asking for the negatives? If you honestly want to help Americans you need All the stories and weigh what's best based on the facts not based on what you want to hear.

I love people like you Cathy who HAVE Gov't Health Care who want to cancel it for others! it's the Christian thing to do!

I think we should repeal Obamacare, and replace it … with universal socialized medicine - like the rest of the industrialized nations of the world.

I work for cancer care northwest. We actually have more patients with insurance and fewer having to choose treatment over bankruptcy. Cathy, I'm a die hard conservative and I'm asking you to stop just slamming Obamacare. Fix it, change it or come up with a better idea! Thanks

My whole family now has coverage. The ACA is the cause for this, I work in health care, I have seen the increase in covered patients first hand. The next step is universal coverage, this will truly lower costs and provide the best care. Cathy, you barely work, spend most of your time catering to special interests so you can be re-elected.. All while receiving a large wage and the best health insurance and care. Stop telling us how it doesn't work while enjoying your tax payer funded care and life.

My premiums have not increased, my hours have not been reduced and I know a couple of people who were able to get medical care through insurance rather than going to an emergency room. Taxes are no more difficult than they have ever been.

Thanks to the ACA, my cousin was able to get affordable insurance despite her preexisting condition. So grateful

It's the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Everyone likes the Patient protection part of the law. It has saved peoples lives and stopped insurance companies from dropping people and refusing to cover them. No republican plan has the patient protection part and the American consumer will not stand for a change in that aspect of the law. Instead of just criticizing the law why not work to amend the parts that need to be fixed and do so in order to serve the needs of the american public. Is it so hard to do the right thing?

It's working fine - you and your Republican cohorts aren't.

My story is that I once knew 7 people who couldn't get health insurance. Now they all have it, thanks to the ACA and President Obama, and their plans are as good as the one my employer provides--and they pay less for them. Now, that's not the kind of story you want to hear. You want to hear made-up horror stories. I don't know anyone with one of those stories.

 

[rudder]

Have Republicans passed a law to "fix" Medicare? No, they passed Obamacare repeal 50 times instead.

Fix medicare? How? The same way the government will have to fix obamacare down the road?

Doctors have been struggling with low medicare reimbursement rates for some time now. The only way to fix medicare is to cut services and/or raise taxes. No politician that wants a second term will do either of those things.

 

[theeedude]

Have the Dems passed a law to fix Medicare?

Democrats aren't the ones saying we should fix medicare instead of implementing Obamacare. Republicans are, so it's on them.

 

[theeedude]

Fix medicare? How? The same way the government will have to fix obamacare down the road?

Doctors have been struggling with low medicare reimbursement rates for some time now. The only way to fix medicare is to cut services and/or raise taxes. No politician that wants a second term will do either of those things.

Or allow Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, which GOP explicitly forbade it from doing when they expanded it.

 

[ivwshane]

Fix medicare? How? The same way the government will have to fix obamacare down the road?

Doctors have been struggling with low medicare reimbursement rates for some time now. The only way to fix medicare is to cut services and/or raise taxes. No politician that wants a second term will do either of those things.

Are you not familiar with your party's proposals and their polices?

http://www.ncpssm.org/PublicPolicy/...es-Health-Care-Unaffordable-for-Beneficiaries

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-cuts-medicare-food-stamps-in-new-budget-blueprint/

But go on, tell us how "no politician" wants to do those things.

Btw, cutting medicares budget is not a fix, it simply makes the program less effective.

 

[Mxylplyx]

The Republicans have been railing against Obamacare for so long that they have no exit strategy now that the program appears to be exceeding expectations. It is quite obvious why they are suddenly switching gears to focus on foreign policy.

 

[Sonikku]

Hillary!

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

The Republicans have been railing against Obamacare for so long that they have no exit strategy now that the program appears to be exceeding expectations. It is quite obvious why they are suddenly switching gears to focus on foreign policy.

As long as Democrats keep treating it as too toxic to campaign on and the media spends its time reporting on its unpopularity and the politics of it Republicans don't need an exit strategy.