Can we get real about repealing Obamacare? (This is great!)
OK, class, let’s talk about repealing Obamacare. Some of us are having a little trouble envisioning what that would look like, but I know all you smart Republicans have some great ideas. So, let’s get started.
Kevin Yoder, from Overland Park, you’ve voted, like, 39 times to repeal Obamacare. Tell us what you’ll say to those senior citizens who will have to start paying more for prescription drugs if you succeed. The Affordable Care Act, as you know, is closing the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug coverage and 6 million seniors are already benefiting.
Congressman Yoder? What’s that, he’s left the room? Something about phoning his grandma, you say.
Well, all right then, let’s move on.
Vicky Hartzler, from Harrisonville, Mo., you’re a big Obamacare critic. What will you say to the millions of people with pre-existing conditions who will lose their chance at affordable health insurance once the repeal happens? And how about the families of those 17.6 million children with pre-existing conditions already benefiting because of the law? Surely you’re not going to cast them into the cold, but insurers won’t handle high-risk patients unless they’re assured of a broad base of healthy people to help absorb the losses.
Say what? Congresswoman Hartzler has stepped out also? I see.
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