Repeal or replace?

[Into the Night]

When he's at a loss for a rebuttal the emojis appear.

Heh. Tball never found himself. He has no mind. He only echos what Democrat leaders tell him to say, the behaves like a stompy little child when cornered on it.

 

[Into the Night]

Going back and rereading your info I see what you are saying my point is all that money comes from them and they still do not get back nearly as much as they pay in and per person they get a lot less then a lot of red states.
Sorry I misunderstood your post.

Taxes are not welfare, Tball.

 

[Diogenes]

Taxes are not welfare, Tball.

There's the surrender emoji!

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So, replace?

That would be the best option given that simply ending it is almost an impossibility.

 

[Diogenes]

That would be the best option given that simply ending it is almost an impossibility.

What makes you say that?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

What makes you say that?

Obamacare is now a very large government bureaucracy. Killing one of those off is nearly impossible.

 

[Diogenes]

Obamacare is now a very large government bureaucracy. Killing one of those off is nearly impossible.

The difficult Trump does immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

The difficult Trump does immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.

The easiest route is compromise. That's what I've long recommended here and did starting with when Obamacare first came out. Even then I knew it was a totally crap plan that would end in disaster.

 

[Diogenes]

The easiest route is compromise. That's what I've long recommended here and did starting with when Obamacare first came out. Even then I knew it was a totally crap plan that would end in disaster.

Easy ain't always best.

It is not impossible to repeal the ACA.

Proof:

• Congress repealed the individual mandate penalty in 2017 with a simple majority vote (51–48 in the Senate) via budget reconciliation—zero Democrats needed.
• The same reconciliation process can repeal every budget-related part of the ACA (subsidies, Medicaid expansion funding, taxes, exchanges) with 51 votes in the Senate.
• As of January 2025, Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. They can pass a full budgetary repeal with 51 votes and no filibuster.

The bureaucracy is huge, but it is not immortal. Once the money spigot is turned off, the 200,000 pages of regulations, the thousands of CMS/IRS employees, and the entire HealthCare.gov apparatus simply cease to be funded and shrink or vanish within months.

It has happened before (see the abrupt end of the CLASS Act, CO-OPs, IPAB, etc.). When Congress defunds something, the bureaucracy dies—no matter how big it got.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/9822L35QFsLyUqn1hVtK8IrLg

 

[Into the Night]

That would be the best option given that simply ending it is almost an impossibility.

It should be, and it WILL end sooner or later; but at least you recognize that once a government program gets started, it's almost impossible to end it.

 

[Diogenes]

It should be, and it WILL end sooner or later; but at least you recognize that once a government program gets started, it's almost impossible to end it.

Almost.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

It should be, and it WILL end sooner or later; but at least you recognize that once a government program gets started, it's almost impossible to end it.

So, you roll it over into something that works. I came up with one that would, but the Left would absolutely hate it because it largely runs on individual responsibility rather than government fiat.

 

[Diogenes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986512237838688474

View: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1986512237838688474

 

[Into the Night]

So, you roll it over into something that works. I came up with one that would, but the Left would absolutely hate it because it largely runs on individual responsibility rather than government fiat.

If it doesn't run on government fiat, that is eliminating ObamaCare, not replacing it. This is a good thing.

Go back to private health insurance.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

If it doesn't run on government fiat, that is eliminating ObamaCare, not replacing it. This is a good thing.

Go back to private health insurance.

That would be a start. Restructuring how the private side works would improve it beyond that.

 

[Into the Night]

That would be a start. Restructuring how the private side works would improve it beyond that.

With the elimination of ObamaCare and it's oppressive effects on private healthcare insurance, it would self correct. That's the beauty of capitalism.

 

[Life is Golden]

Easy ain't always best.

It is not impossible to repeal the ACA.

Just because you are a single payer fan.....doesn't mean everyone else is.

 

[Life is Golden]

With the elimination of ObamaCare and it's oppressive effects on private healthcare insurance, it would self correct. That's the beauty of capitalism.

A gubmint takeover is not a correction.

 

[Life is Golden]

That would be a start. Restructuring how the private side works would improve it beyond that.

That is impossible at this point.

 

[Jake Starkey]

What makes you say that?

... because it is true.