Obamacare repeal is based on racial resentment

[HAB911]

House Republicans are taking health services away from disabled children, women who give birth, and survivors of rape and sexual assault. They are consigning thousands of people with serious illnesses to death by making them uninsurable in an era of unaffordable treatment. Virtually every reputable medical organization in the country condemns the health care bill that passed the House Thursday, but the GOP clings to two reasons for passing it.

First, Republicans claim that the new legislation provides economic benefits. These benefits are unclear, though reports suggest that they entail a transfer of resources from vulnerable people to rich people. The bill passed the House without a score from the Congressional Budget Office, so we can dismiss any economic justification for it without further discussion. Passing the bill without a score from the CBO is a signal that Republican legislators are not taking the economic dimensions of this issue seriously, so we can follow their lead and move on to the heart of the matter.

The other explanation given by House Republicans for passing the bill is political. These congressmen felt they had to repeal the Affordable Care Act because they promised to do so. Most Americans have no quibble with Obamacare itself, but for Republicans, repealing it is and always has always been a way to repudiate former president Barack Obama. Since taking office, President Trump has done several things that he previously chastised Obama for, but these contradictions have had little impact on his party or their supporters. This is largely because GOP voters’ disdain for Obama and support for Trump cannot be separated from findings about racism. Studies conducted after the election confirm that racial resentment directed toward people of color predicted both overall support for Trump and voters’ propensity to switch from Obama to Trump.

GOP voters know they don’t like Obama, but they do not know Obama’s legislative record, whether it pertains to the economic recovery or health care legislation. A December 2016 poll showed that 67 percent of Trump voters believed that unemployment had risen during Obama’s tenure, even though it dramatically declined. A February 2017 poll found that one third of all Americans did not even know that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act were the same thing. Over half of the Republicans in that poll did not know whether Medicaid would be impacted by repealing Obamacare. Medicaid will be gutted by the new bill.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/05/obamacare-repeal-based-racial-resentment/iVNtB9fpr3JNm7IKfYyorK/story.html

[dalton99a]

1. Kick.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Agree,many of us have

inferred this.. Over heard a Local State GOP Representative say in so many words,we will do what ever it takes to wipe out any and all of the Laws and Bills Obama has or had his Name attached. He got his ass handed to him last November.

These arrogant ass bags don't understand modern use of cell phones.. Got-cha!!!!!

[mitch96]

3. I think this was their plan all along

Good or bad just delegitimize his presidency. It was pretty obvious when Obama would agree with GOP on something and they would immediately flip and say/do the opposite...
The GOP just did not like or want a black president.
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[Wellstone ruled]

4. People seem to forget statments made

by the likes of Newt Gengrich,and other Republicans,expressing their Racist feelings toward Obama. Every thing that is happening in D.C. at this time,is Race Related. The Polling after the November Elections shows us it was the last gasp of Old Whitie losing his or her control of them Brown Skinned Peoples. And now we see the Republicans using this as a lever to replace,eliminate any previous legislation that leveled the playing field for everyone in the Nation.

Most Republicans adhere to a philosophy of a Endured Servant Class and a White Ruling Class.

[bluecollar2]

5. kick...and rec...n/t

[Lil Missy]

6. of course it is based on racial resentment.

[Hortensis]

7. No. It's BASED on extremist billionaire resentment at

being required to pay into systems they don't need and their self-justifying contempt for everyone else.

The deluge of lies and social manipulations all come from that source. Racism is merely a major negative passion, among a number, they've deliberately harnessed and directed to achieve their goals.

From a New Yorker article on the one of a few thousand ultrawealthy ultraconservatives powering this who is currently closest to Rump and influencing him most strongly:

Magerman told the Wall Street Journal that Mercer’s political opinions “show contempt for the social safety net that he doesn’t need, but many Americans do.” He also said that Mercer wants the U.S. government to be “shrunk down to the size of a pinhead.”

Several former colleagues of Mercer’s said that his views are akin to Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Magerman told me, “Bob believes that human beings have no inherent value other than how much money they make. A cat has value, he’s said, because it provides pleasure to humans. But if someone is on welfare they have negative value. If he earns a thousand times more than a schoolteacher, then he’s a thousand times more valuable.”

Magerman added, “He thinks society is upside down—that government helps the weak people get strong, and makes the strong people weak by taking their money away, through taxes.” He said that this mind-set was typical of “instant billionaires” in finance, who “have no stake in society,” unlike the industrialists of the past, who “built real things.”

Another former high-level Renaissance employee said, “Bob thinks the less government the better. He’s happy if people don’t trust the government. And if the President’s a bozo? He’s fine with that. He wants it to all fall down.”