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Considering it passed without one single Republican vote, I'm not surprised.
Perhaps they saw something wrong with it dems didn't.
Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-11-11 05:33 PM | Reply

That's because a black man with a Muslim sounding middle name got it passed. They couldn't allow the first black POTUS to have a win and s legacy. That's totally why they didn't.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-11 05:49 PM | Reply

I think they're working on it now.
Hopefully money will be opening up at least thru end of Jan.
Trump said he wants to "fix" Healthcare, which would be a LOT more than just ACA if done right.

#63 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-11-11 01:43 AM | Reply

No they aren't. They don't give a $_it about the healthcare system. Nor do they care about covering the American people. Full stop

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-11 02:01 AM | Reply

49 is fake quotes

Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-11-11 12:37 AM | Reply

I thought you were going to bed. Hmmmmmmm

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-11 12:42 AM | Reply

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The Tortuous History of Conservatives and the Individual Mandate
The Apothecary
ByAvik Roy,Senior Contributor. Commentary from Forbes' Senior Contributor, Policy
for The Apothecary

Before we get to Stuart's piece, let's first step back and discuss the history of the individual mandate. It all started with a piece of legislation passed in 1986 by a Democratic House and a Republican Senate and signed by Ronald Reagan, called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA. (EMTALA was passed as part of a larger budget bill called the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, or COBRA, which is best known for allowing those who have lost their jobs to continue buying health insurance through their old employer's group plan.)

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-11 12:15 AM | Reply

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With EMTALA in place, conservatives began to embrace the goal of getting everyone into the insurance system. Conservatives viewed having insurance as a matter of personal responsibility, to avoid passing health care costs on to others.

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Conservatives also turned to the Gingrich model, because they long feared the alternative of a single-payer system. What we now call Medicare for All would leave out insurance companies and instead rely on the federal government as the single insurer. Indeed, Reagan got his start in national politics during the 1960s campaigning against the enactment of Medicare. He claimed it would lead to a socialist dictatorship that would "invade every area of freedom we have known in this country." So, with single-payer off the table, an individual mandate for private health insurance was the conservative solution.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-11 12:11 AM | Reply

Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker

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But Hatch's opposition is ironic, or some would say, politically motivated. The last time Congress debated a health overhaul, when Bill Clinton was president, Hatch and several other senators who now oppose the so-called individual mandate actually supported a bill that would have required it.

In fact, says Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea. "It was invented by Mark Pauly to give to George Bush Sr. back in the day, as a competition to the employer mandate focus of the Democrats at the time."

Pauly, a conservative health economist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says it wasn't just his idea. Back in the late 1980s " when Democrats were pushing not just a requirement for employers to provide insurance, but also the possibility of a government-sponsored single-payer system " "a group of economists and health policy people, market-oriented, sat down and said, 'Let's see if we can come up with a health reform proposal that would preserve a role for markets but would also achieve universal coverage.' "

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-11 12:04 AM | Reply

More garbage from Corky and Censored. Why am I NOT surprised. Hillary was no FDT democrat. She was a corporatist sell out who would eviscerate what FDR Stood for.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-10 09:58 PM | Reply

Democrats would stop acting like spoiled children and work with Republicans, they could create a health care solution that meets more people's needs.
But you're just like them.
Prideful and partisan.
Only care about proving you're right but the problem is you can't.
All you can do is be stubborn and tell yourself lies about ACA.
Now the children are dealing with adults and can't get their way by throwing themselves on the ground kicking and screaming.
Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-11-10 03:19 PM | Reply

Democrats tried to get the Republicans to work with them when Obama was trying to get passed Obamacare to his desk for his signature. They refused. So GFY BILLJOHNSON. It's not Democrats who are acting like children. It's the Republicans who are.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-10 03:48 PM | Reply

Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker

Kim Davis is going to have the big sads now. Awwwwwwwwww the poor thing.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-10 01:59 PM | Reply

I remember telling you Corky that the democratic party was a sell out especially Hillary Clinton back in 2008. Do you believe that now??

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-10 01:49 PM | Reply

Trump Wants New Commanders Stadium to Be Named After Him

They got a vote on ACA in future they can't win because it requires 60 to pass, and they appear to have gotten Gov funding and rehiring for Gov workers, and apparently some guarantee on SNAP money."
So, iow they got absolutely nothing.

Posted by truthhurts at 2025-11-09 11:15 PM | Reply

Typical isn't it?? I'm not shocked. It's sad that be. Now people will understand why I am not a registered Democrat or a Republican. Both parties stinks terribly. Rotten to the core.

#43 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 10:24 PM | Reply

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 11:18 PM | Reply

The Washington Yams be more like it.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 11:15 PM | Reply

ADL Explains Its Mamdani Monitor Initiative

Capitulation by the corporate Democrats.
Kick that football, Charlie Brown!

Posted by chuffy at 2025-11-09 10:20 PM | Reply

Typical isn't it?? I'm not shocked. It's sad that be. Now people will understand why I am not a registered Democrat or a Republican. Both parties stinks terribly. Rotten to the core.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 10:24 PM | Reply

This site has became a sewer. There, I said it...
#20 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Then leave if you hate it here. No one is forcing you to stay here.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 09:06 PM | Reply

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I appreciate it greatly

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 08:30 PM | Reply

Thanks for the explanation Corky. As far as I am doing. I'm doing peachy. I turn 54 tomorrow so I am grateful to be alive to see it. Hope all is well with you too.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 07:56 PM | Reply

Centrist Dems apparently bailed on the Dem Caucus.
Too bad.
Posted by Corky at 2025-11-09 07:34 PM | Reply

Care to explain what you mean?? Sorry I am lost.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 07:44 PM | Reply

The only thing that the Republican party gave us was

Headache

Heartache

Tummy ache

That's totally it.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-09 12:10 AM | Reply

102 Does anyone really care what this heartless individual has to say?

Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-08 09:26 PM | Reply

I'd rather eat paint chips.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-08 09:46 PM | Reply

At least Jim Jones gave HIS Cult ~~kool aide.~~
Trump's Cult just has to suck on his lies... and like it.

Posted by Corky at 2025-11-08 04:08 PM | Reply

It was cyanide laced Flavor Aid. A Kool Aid knock off.

Fixed for historic accuracy.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-08 04:17 PM | Reply

Trump needs to hold dems feet to the fire on this.
The ACA has burned itself out. Time to rise from the ashes, like a phoenix, with something built to last.
Time for Congress to work together.

#76 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-11-08 03:41 PM | Reply

Trump can barely keep his eyes open let alone anything else. BTW Trump doesn't care about healthcare for anyone else but himself. I don't know why you can't see this. I guess it's what happens when you are a cultist. You will bend the knee every time. Sad that be.

Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-08 03:47 PM | Reply