Republicans, you can end the Obamacare War if you want. You’ve already lost. It’s a free-market program, you know it is. You can get on board and implement it and let the free market do its thing, or you can continue to drag your feet and have whiny-baby fits, driving up costs with your inaction and obstruction. That’s not exactly how you tell us conservativism is supposed to work, but you know, the choice is yours. Be the principled free market conservatives you claim to be or continue to be this recalcitrant caricature of a political party. Your choice. If you choose the later your party will die, because reality is a potent neutralizer of fear.
Obamacare is working where it’s allowed to work.I give you this headline:
California Man Get Health Insurance For $1 A Month Through Obamacare
And here’s the story:
This is California, where the state didn’t attempt to sabotage the law. There weren’t efforts to obstruct, defund, misinform the public or prevent them from signing up. They didn’t dig their heels in and say, “fuckitall, we’ll just let the Feds set up our exchange, we don’t want to do it.” There wasn’t a rejection of Medicaid expansion, or this ridiculous notion that people could just go to emergency rooms and somehow the rest of the state wasn’t paying for it.
No, in California the state created its own website and was able to roll out its exchange, tailored to its specific needs. It worked on this for months and everything is going well. California is the nation’s largest market, and the rollout here, while not perfect, is also not plagued with the glitches seen elsewhere. It works here because people wanted it to work. Amazing what can happen if you have your want-to.
The war is over, Republicans. Do not be like the lone Japanese sniper living in a tree who still doesn’t know, decades later, that the Empire lost the war.
I find it really interesting that Republicans are working off a 50-year-old playbook when it comes to Obamacare. Today, Medicare is so widely popular, you even have Tea Partiers saying “Hand off my Medicare.”
Obamacare can work if you want it to. California proves it. If you’re unfortunate enough to live in a state governed by Republican’ts, whose guiding theology is government can’t work and government is the enemy, then it won’t. Simple.
[UPDATE]:
Oregon cuts number of uninsured in its state by 10% in less than two weeks. This thing nobody wanted .. people want! And Blue States are able to implement it nicely.
Imagine what we can do when we work together.