Attacking the Affordable Care Act? Really? Where were the Republicans when...

[RBInMaine]

When tens of millions of Americans had no health insurance at all, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When premiums were skyrocketing every year yet health outcomes were low, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When people were denied coverage or thrown off for pre-existing conditions, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When the Medicare-D program was strong-armed through the House, went $150BILLION over budget, and had a massive donut hole, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When the Medicare-D rollout was very problematic and that program was "unpopular", WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When individual market plans were routinely cancelled or changed or jacked up in price, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When people lost their homes and went bankrupt when they got sick, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When young people could not stay on their parents' plans through age 25, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When RomneyCare was problematic in its initial rollout, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When RomneyCare, the ACA model, was passed, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

When people had no health insurance and had to use very expensive emergency rooms that we all had to pay for in higher premiums, WHERE WERE THE REPUBLICANS?

And when it comes, NOW, to providing a plan that insures EVERYONE with healthcare and IMPROVES health insurance which MUST occur for it to be REAL reform, WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS?

The REPUBLICANS are BANKRUPT on this issue. Totally BANKRUPT.

[Laelth]

1. k&r for the truth. n/t

-Laelth

[Scuba]

2. It's not just this issue. The party of big money is bankrupt on every moral issue.

And the fiscal ones too.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Simple

ACA is to blame for all of these problems (or not doing enough to fix them), of course. Silly.

[CBHagman]

4. Where were the hearings when people died needlessly while uninsured?

Where were the hearings for families with bedridden members who required round-the-clock care and couldn't afford it?

[jmowreader]

5. On the emergency room thing, I'll tell you EXACTLY where the Republicans were

They were standing right behind Ronald Reagan as he signed the bill into law forcing hospitals to stabilize anyone who comes through the door, but at the same time not providing any supplemental government funding to help hospitals pay for this.

Ronald Reagan was the undisputed king of the unfunded mandate.