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It's true, many republicans run on spite: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html >Bu
by minikites 9y ago
It's true, many republicans run on spite: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html
>But the Obama administration’s plan to expand coverage relies in part on savings from Medicare. And since the G.O.P. opposes anything that might be good for Mr. Obama, it has become the passionate defender of ineffective medical procedures and overpayments to insurance companies.
It's also worth noting that Obamacare was originally a republican idea but since it was associated with Obama, they hate it.
- civilian 9y agoYou're not wrong. But lol, the spite runs both ways, and Krugman is a notable source of it.
- jerf 9y agoTaking your view on Republican's inner psychology from Krugman is about as reliable as asking Sean Hannity what animates Democrats. That hardly even rises to the level of "unfounded accusation".
- dragonwriter 9y ago> It's also worth noting that Obamacare was originally a republican idea No, the “mandate and subsidy” thing was originally an insurance industry idea, floated arond the time of Bill Clinton's healthcare reform efforts as what they would rather see. Republican politicians later picked it up, but it didn't come from them. (And by the time the ACA was being floated, those Republicans who still supported a mandate plus subsidy approach wanted it limited to HDHP + HSA plans, which had become a major Republican idea during the Bush Administration, where mandatory at-risk personal investment accounts—not only HSAs, but also, for example, similar accounts as a replacement for all or part of Social Security—were a recurring theme in Republican policy proposals.)