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truebluegreen

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13. Amend Medicare by removing the age requirement.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 09:47 PM

Sep 2013

The structure is already there. With a mandate in place, where do you think the 99% will go?

Edited to add: health insurers will die on the vine, instead of citizens.

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If Obamacare is not working fairly well in 4 or 5 years, should we consider repealing it ?? [View all] kentuck Sep 2013 OP

repeal? no! change and update? yes rurallib Sep 2013 #1

True. kentuck Sep 2013 #9

I agree Andy823 Sep 2013 #10

Something tells me if they leave it the fuck alone NightWatcher Sep 2013 #2

People can't afford 4 or 5 years bigwillq Sep 2013 #3

It will be improved, not repealed. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2013 #4

No, we need to consider amending it. Warpy Sep 2013 #5

yes and go for single payer universal health care gopiscrap Sep 2013 #6

too bad we can't do that now Puzzledtraveller Sep 2013 #14

I agree gopiscrap Sep 2013 #19

Change it to single payer but to repeal the coverage, etc..... fadedrose Sep 2013 #7

Only if we pass single payer at the same time as we repeal Bjorn Against Sep 2013 #8

Would single payer include everyone? kentuck Sep 2013 #11

It would include everyone Bjorn Against Sep 2013 #12

Amend Medicare by removing the age requirement. truebluegreen Sep 2013 #13

^^this^^ Puzzledtraveller Sep 2013 #15

I support fixing its problems (yes, it has some) incrementally, always working closer and closer kestrel91316 Sep 2013 #16

But it can't. The ACA is effectively a law against a single payer system. Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #20

the only way ACA leads to SP is if it fails. KG Sep 2013 #17

I view ACA, as it stands right now, as just a starting point. Brigid Sep 2013 #18