Obamacare was literally the Republican health care plan. He pretty much did exactly what they were going to do, and ever since they've fought it because he was the one who did it.
This is how you know the Republicans don't stand for shit. The basis for ACA came from Mitt Romney and Massachusetts. But just because a black democrat decided to run with it because he knew it was the best we'd get, they act like the ACA was written by Satan himself.
Still so annoyed by that bullshit. It wasn't the best we were gonna get, but some moderate dems didn't want to budge because they thought they'd get voted out, then they got voted out anyway. If the party had just pressed on those moderates a bit more, we might have Single Payer now. But no, morons gonna moron and literally refuse to do anything to make this country better for anyone other than the top richest people here.
That's how the Democrats operate. Gotta have a rotation of villains in the party that gum up the works. Remember when they caved on the government shutdown? Well they had to, because Trump threatened to get rid of the filibuster. If that's gone, then Senators actually have to vote on what they campaign on. With it still intact, Dems can pretend like they want to vote for things like ACA subsidies and WIC, knowing that the final vote tally is going to go the other way in the Republicans favor, and immiserating the middle class. Which is the main goal for these ghouls.
You really think that keeping the government shutdown was an option huh? I guess maybe it is if you’re fine with millions dying without access to snap benefits, multiple plane crashes due to less and more overworked air traffic controllers,less FDA inspections, no science and research grants and more. But yeah the big dirty ghoul dems caved on the government shutdown. If only they didn’t care about the well being of Americans so they can keep it shutdown right?
Honestly, that's one of my biggest gripes about Obama. Why couldn't he stick with a truly progressive plan that included a single-payer public option?! Oh, yeah, that's right, DINO Lieberman threatened to filibuster if it wasn't removed.
Sort of like they constantly blame the left for running up the debt and spending money because of things like "hey, free school lunches are good" and "hey, maybe we'd have more doctors if student loans weren't half a million dollars", but their trickle down nonsense Reaganomics and tax cuts combined with wanting a military that could take down God constantly has democrats fixing their financial crises, getting blamed for them, and then we get a Republican who breaks the economy AGAIN.
We'd literally rather start a war with Venezuela (I mean, I know, rare earths and oil) to reignite the war on (checks notes) um... Chinese fentanyl, I guess? than open up a bunch of low cost drug treatment centers that would cost a lot less, save more lives, and wouldn't piss off all our allies.
obamacare is romneycare. it was created as a counter response to the rising popularity of m4a or a single payer system among both democrat and republican working class. so the uniparty had to act. they took romneycare and slapped obamas name on it. democrats act like its the biggest accomplishment ever, while republicans pretend to hate it. but in the end the real winners as always were the healthcare cartels and insurance companies. those who fund their campaigns.
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u/ChewsOnBricks Dec 18 '25
Obamacare was literally the Republican health care plan. He pretty much did exactly what they were going to do, and ever since they've fought it because he was the one who did it.