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Rozlee

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10. I would've said that if Obamacare died so would have the Republicans.
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 12:37 AM
Nov 2013

After all, so many aspects of the ACA are popular such as covering people with pre-existing conditions and covering adult children up to age 26. I'm around military people with college-age kids that are on their folks' Tricare and they'd hate Republicans if it got canceled. Not to mention some of my relations by marriage in WV that are staunch teabaggers but have been on Medicaid now for a couple of years due to the ACA and would get kicked off. They wouldn't be too happy going back to the state's old indigent program where they had to wait months to be seen by a doctor. A lot of people have gotten benefits that they've never had before and it's only human nature, they're not going to want to give them back. No stuffing the socialized medicine genie back in the bottle once it's out. And if there's one thing Republicans have gotten pretty good at these last few years, it's shooting themselves in the foot. They'll happily take away healthcare from very ill people and tell them it's for their own good, it was turning them into dirty commies anyway.

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