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markodochartaigh

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14. And when Republican voters have lost their health care
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 01:45 PM
3 hrs ago

and their tiny local hospitals (which have been on government provided life support for decades) have closed, the talking point in their bubble will be that "government has no place in health care", that "government health care was always going to fail anyway". And they will forget all of the years that the Affordable Care Act did give them access to health care insurance, even if the term "affordable" was stretched to its limit. They will never understand that their local hospitals closed when the government dollars were cut, anymore than they understood when Senator Marco Rubio tried to gut the ACA by eliminating the risk corridors that insurance companies demanded to participate in the ACA.

All that the sick and dying Republicans will think is that "government health care never works".

On the other hand, will the one third of the electorate who couldn't be bothered to vote get the message from the Democratic party that it was the
Republicans who tanked the ACA? That is the important question.

https://theweek.com/articles/594868/how-marco-rubio-stealthily-gutted-obamacare

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