Repeal AND Replace OR Wander in Wilderness for ANOTHER 40 Years

“They’re never — they’re not going to repeal and replace Obamacare. It’s been around too long. And the American people have gotten accustomed to it. Governors have gotten accustomed to this Medicaid expansion, and so trying to pull it back is really not going to work.”
- Former House Speaker John Boehner in a private speech in Las Vegas, according to The Washington Post, which obtained video of the Republican’s remarks.
Boehner made his remarks on July 21 at a trade show hosted by Good Neighbor Pharmacy, a group of independent pharmacies. USA Today reported that the show was backed at least in part by a large pharmaceutical distribution company — that would have keen interest in the fate of the health care law.
Thank goodness that Gov. Rick Scott of Florida didn’t fall for the ‘extra’ Medicaid funding ruse, though others did, including Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.
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REPEAL and REPLACE with something better. Period.
Yeah, the ‘replace’ portion of the PROMISE is hard, very hard. It would take courage AND leadership, something that seems to be in short supply among the ‘Grand Old Party’ in Washington.
Americans are TIRED of being LIED to.
That’s especially true for Republicans (i.e., ‘Read My Lips, No New Taxes!, President George Bush promised at the 1988 GOP Convention. He’s also the Bush who announced last year that he was voting for Hillary Clinton).
“When George Herbert Walker Bush ran for president, he promised the American people he wouldn’t raise their taxes. He lied to them. He broke his commitment to them and they threw him out of office four years later.”
Keeping a promise is just as sacred nearly 30 years later to EVERYONE who placed their trust in President Donald Trump in the rest of the Republicans who were given BOTH Houses of Congress in last year’s historical election.
Either grow some or be prepared to wander in the wilderness for ANOTHER 40 years.
It’s that simple.
Mike Kersmarki is an author in Tampa, Fla. He currently is writing a domestic policy book: “Worker’s Party: How to Help ALL Americans Achieve Their Full Economic Potential.”
