ObamaCare Repeal will be Senate's 1st objective in new congress

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ObamaCare Repeal will be Senate's 1st objective in new congress

One can only hope.

It increases the share of our aggregate GDP that we spend on medical services.  It doesn't insure everyone.  It guarantees fines to those who choose to opt out who are earning too much.  It provides no assistance to those who are making too little.  And it redistributes wealth from the many to the few. Ironically, perhaps, the right-wing talking heads call it socialism, but in reality it is the antithesis of socialism.  Moreover, many of those in congress freely admitted that they did not read the bill before voting for its passage.  Charlie Rengel famously said, "how could I be expected to read a bill that was 2000 pages long?"

The PPACA needs to go away.  I'm not against Obama.  I voted for him in 2008, and was very open about that on this forum.  Moreover, if a pollster asked me today I'd say that I generally approve of him and his legacy, but I voted for Obama in spite of, not because of, this unnecessary and wasteful bit of legislative agenda.

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What do you think should be done with people who already have health insurance from the exchange? Just drop them and let them suffer?

There are about 17 million such people.  Estimates vary regarding the number of people who purchased it to avoid the fine, but it might be something like 7 million.  That leaves 10 million who want the insurance and benefit from it.  (Actually, there may be about 28 million who want medical insurance but who do not qualify for PPACA insurance because they don't make enough money.  It's pretty well understood that Obama sold out to the insurance companies when he pushed for this bill, rather than pushing for socialized medicine, so there are millions of need people who go uninsured under the law.)  But those 10 million I referred to earlier who have purchased insurance can still purchase private insurance if the repeal stipulates that insurance companies cannot reject clients on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.