{"id":30414,"date":"2012-10-01T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/the-politics-of-obamacare.html"},"modified":"2012-10-01T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:07:27","slug":"the-politics-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/the-politics-of-obamacare.html","title":{"rendered":"The politics of Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had the ACA been introduced under the George W. Bush administration, it would have been condemned by Dems as half-assed, inadequate, not-universal, too supportive of private insurance and the whole employer-provided insurance model, and more a chance for big companies to profit than for Americans to get health care. \u00a0It would have been lauded by Republicans as compassionate conservatism, market-driven, safely incremental, affordable, and in keeping with traditional American values.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opposition to (and support of) it are driven almost entirely by politics (with a soupcon of women's health hysteria thrown in for the social conservatives). Which is why Mitt keeps wildly oscillating between taking credit for his part of it while threatening to get rid of it, and why it's not the centerpiece of the Democratic reelection campaign.<\/p>\n

Me? I take the glass-half-full approach. \u00a0I'd love a full glass, but better half a glass (with a resolve to continue to fill it over time) than the just-a-bit-at-the-bottom\u00a0glass we had beforehand.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Shannon Turlington<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

\n

Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhy Obamacare is a Conservative\u2019s Dream<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTransparency. Mobility. Choice. It\u2019s Market Economics 101.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had the ACA been introduced under the George W. Bush administration, it would have been condemned by Dems as half-assed, inadequate, not-universal, too supportive of private insurance and the whole employer-provided insurance model, and more a chance for big companies to profit than for Americans to get health care. \u00a0It would have been lauded by … Continue reading “The politics of Obamacare”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/there-aint-no-such-thing-as-a-free-repeal.html","url_meta":{"origin":30414,"position":0},"title":"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Repeal","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-17 3:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"To all appearances, we seem to have reached a point in our society, either from compassion or fastidiousness, where we prefer people not die in the streets due to disease and other adverse medical conditions. There are a few people who probably don't feel that way, but for the most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136910,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/in-case-you-thought-all-that-aca-repeal-stuff-was-dead-and-gone.html","url_meta":{"origin":30414,"position":1},"title":"In case you thought all that ACA Repeal stuff was dead and gone","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-18 3:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not. The GOP are just waiting for a November win to get rid of the ACA, including pre-existing medical conditions (vague promises to the contrary notwithstanding). They've actually said that. Again, remember why the ACA was passed: 1. People dying (or just chronically suffering, and unable to work) from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mike-pence-aca.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7023,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/11\/i_want_a_new_dr.html","url_meta":{"origin":30414,"position":2},"title":"“I want a new drug”","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Nov-04 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most contentious social issues in the US has been what to do (if anything) about health care, insurance, and rising costs. Over the last few years, that's...","rel":"","context":"In "Health"","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133414,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/the-senate-gop-health-care-committee-is-all-men-but-thats-not-about-identity.html","url_meta":{"origin":30414,"position":3},"title":"The Senate GOP health care committee is all men. But that's not about "identity"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, yeah, as the headline notes, there are more Ted Cruzes than there are women on the Senate Republican committee drafting their health insurance bill. There are, in fact, five female GOP Senators, but none of them are on the committee.Despite the fact that women make up half of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135101,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/death-panels-always-real.html","url_meta":{"origin":30414,"position":4},"title":"“Death Panels” have always been real","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 7:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the great calumnies of the original debate over the ACA -- and one still heard today -- is that it would set up \"death panels\" that would make life-or-death decisions over the people they considered worthy or unworthy of spending health care money on. \"Your child \/ grandmother\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-5.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":39608,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/07\/no-health-care-help-for-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":30414,"position":5},"title":"No Health Care Help for You!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Nov-13 8:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"'Seventeen states have passed laws restricting navigators and others trained to help consumers learn about and enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces.'Nice. \u00a0Why would states restrict folks from providing consumers assistance? \u00a0Well, part of it may be wanting to be sure that bad advice isn't given (by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}