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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo why do the Rethugs/Teabaggers hate Obamacare so much?
Other than as Michele says it will kill babies (lol) and I can see why the pharmaceutical Co's
don't like it ...buy why the absolute hatred from the whole party? All they do is try to repeal it without giving good reasons why it's so harmful. I just don't get it! Even some Dems have fallen for their propaganda.
elleng
(131,292 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)But they are more adamant about repealing the ACA than ANYTHING ELSE that's been passed. Why don't those poor people in the heartland like it? I'm sure most of them don't have health insurance and the Gov. will help them afford it. It still remains a mystery. I know they vote against their own self interest...but anti HI is a little extreme!
elleng
(131,292 posts)which has been pervasive and effective for many years/generations. Media NOT doing its business is a major factor.
Adding to this its complex, and complexity of anything feeds into repug negativity.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)I know this because one of them told me. I did not take the time to explain it is a pro-insurance industry measure first conceived and implemented by various Republicans.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)They just hate Obama.
Even if it helps them they have to say they hate it because Obama advocated it.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)No other reason on Earth.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)have a greater resonator effect. All it is,is just Racial Hatred and it sells.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)handmade34
(22,759 posts)most people that hate it don't even know what it is or how it works... these people have been exploited and lied to by congress people and others.
The ones that know and still hate...??? fear, 'a black man is making it happen', power, greed, etc...
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)They don't have to put forth a reason or a plan just as Congressional GOP members are blocking conference on the budget. GOP does not have any plans to govern and they just say no. I think in a few years when ACA is fully implemented and citizens begin to realize the benefits maybe Obama can get the proper credit.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)They listen to the likes of Rush, Beck, all the fox news team, and many other right wing talking "idiots" that push the BS because they are being paid to do so!
These people are so damned gullible they believe all the BS they hear from the media, which is owned by the same corporation that will be losing out as things change thanks to Obama care. Remember the old saying "there is a sucker born every minute", and from what I see the republicans have found everyone of them!
wandy
(3,539 posts)elected officials and their talking heads don't like it is straight forward.
1) It reduces profit. Preexisting conditions are not profitable. Not being able to 'pull coverage' in case of severe illness also damages the bottom line.
2) This is the big one. It may become popular. It may set the stage for a national health care plan.
That would really impact the bottom line!
Think about it. What do insurance companies actually DO to make that profit.
tblue
(16,350 posts)Cuz their reasons are not the same.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)and I don't have the exact quote - but paraphrasing he said that is the Democrats can ever get anything close to universal health care apssed and it works at all, Republicans will never get elected. I t was during the Clinton attempt at HC and Kristol was Gingrich's top aide.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Although...FDR passed SS and that didn't stop ReThugs from being elected.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)Republicans do sometimes stretch things a little.
Until any truth is nowhere to be found
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Democrats try to be rational and reasonable to a greater or lesser extent, being reasonable never enters Republican minds in the first place.
The liberals went ahead and did what you want? Suckers, you hate the idea.
Romneycare became Obamacare, straight from the Heritage Foundation and a quintessentially Republican idea that forces Americans into the private market for insurance and they loathe the implementation simply because it was the other side that did it.
Republicans can turn on a dime and give you nine cents change, they can go from "criticizing the President in wartime is treason" to "The President is a traitor" in the same wartime without taking a breath in between.
Herlong
(649 posts)Tell the people the truth and we will all work together to solve the problems. Republahcans don't want that.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)they want you to be as sick as possible without taking their money
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,354 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)than the lives of thousands or millions of Americana. That sounds about right!
reformist2
(9,841 posts)the crap they spew - but it sells tickets, and they can't pass up a good thing. In a way, they're living in a hell of their own creation.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Ideologically, many don't believe the government should have that kind of authority.
They don't see it as the government helping you, they view it as the government twisting your arm into compliance.
Igel
(35,383 posts)They think that government should provide for the general welfare, not provide the general welfare. Or
They think that a large government is one in which influence peddling, bribery, and lobbying is likely to be a problem. If a small government is corrupt, piffle. It's small and inoffensive, and there's not much of a motivation to corrupt it.
They think that government should be intrusive on their terms, not on other people's terms. (There's a pretty good consensus that government should be intrusive. They insist on dictating to people bedrooms and prescribing or proscribing what happens there, others insist on dictating to people as regards their more public actions and prescribing/proscribing what happens there--and this extends to thoughts and motivations, and that's where I think it's a bit too Orwellian. But, in general, everybody wants to dictate to others. Meh. Primates.)
malaise
(269,256 posts)nearly 400 years creating their caricature of the black male and Obama shattered it by winning the presidency. Any meaningful legacy for Obama means that all their bullshit has been a lie for centuries.
That's why they want back 'their' country.