The Coming Republican Retreat On Obamacare (The GOP creep toward reality has begun.)

[pampango]

There are few more dependable ways to fire up conservative voters than to attack the health law universally known by a nickname that incorporates the name of the polarizing president who signed it. But don’t be fooled. The GOP creep toward reality has begun.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich says repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s dramatic Medicaid expansion is “not gonna happen,” even if Republicans take control of the Senate. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader aiming for a promotion to majority leader, says Obamacare should be pulled out root and branch — except for Kentucky’s successful Obamacare website. His state’s online marketplace is “fine,” he said in a debate.

Whether Americans realize it or not, the law is already embedded in their lives. Some 10.3 million people have gained insurance coverage since it took effect, according to an analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine, most of them under the enlarged Medicaid program for low-income people. Millions of others are benefitting from consumer protections against insurance companies, lower prescription drug costs for seniors, and many other aspects of the law.

Though they aren’t making ads to heap praise on Obamacare, Democratic Senate candidates do know how to defend it in debates and on the trail. Iowa’s Bruce Braley talks about his nephew who, because of the ACA, will never have to worry about becoming uninsurable due to his “pre-existing condition” of having survived liver cancer at age 2. Alison Lundergan Grimes talks about more than a half million Kentuckians who are “for the first time ever” filling prescriptions, seeing doctors and getting checkups. “I will not be the senator who rips that insurance from their hands,” she says.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/coming-republican-retreat-obamacare/

"Creep" for the creeps.

[underpants]

1. Look at how they shrinked away from gay marriage

Their whole "family values" (which is ironically a PC phrase) began with demands by Rev. Moon and was the basis for several political careers (Santorum) but now .... eh... It's okay now.

[BlueJazz]

2. It won't be very long before right-wing politicians will use their magic history-changer and...

..convince 60% of the populace that they had to drag Obama (kicking and screaming) to push for the Affordable Care Act.

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4. Based on how easily my friends on Facebook are manipulated, it'll work too. eom

[bullwinkle428]

3. K&R. Out-of-touch fossil John McGlaughlin was bloviating about how

the Democrats who remain in Congress for the next session are going to have reconsider voting to repeal ACA, because the Repukes will supposedly have some kind of mandate which establishes that the majority of Americans hate it.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. The proof was always in the pudding

Via word of mouth, people who were under-insured or not insured have spread the good news if they live in states that have embraced Obamacare.