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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,951 posts)
5. The ACA
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 02:54 PM
Oct 2016

is pretty much the only plan that Congress was able to pass back in 2010- and even then, only barely. The GOP helped drag out the process by pretending to deal with Obama but really just wanted to kill the whole thing like they did back in 1993-1994 (and, irony of ironies, ACA was essentially the GOP plan from back then). Despite their undying hatred of the law, six years on, the GOP have yet to fill McCain's "blank page of paper" and/or even communicate a viable alternative plan while there have been plenty of ideas to improve the law from our side. We just can't anything else passed while the Republicans run one or both chambers of Congress, so the best we can do right now is defend the gains we have made under the ACA and fight for renewed Democratic control of Congress and the WH.

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my hero TXCritter Oct 2016 #1
Yep... Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #2
Their plan: the free market. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2016 #3
It's PPACA or ACA. AHCA is American Health Care Association or in Fl. Agency. Nancyswidower Oct 2016 #4
The ACA Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2016 #5
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