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Originally Posted by Fusebox
The lower house is now controlled by the Republicans. They have legitimate concerns about the implementation of Obama's prized piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare".
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No, they don't.
The tea-party Republicans have 2 concerns, neither of which are legitimate in the sense that they are worth shutting the government down over: (i) that the ACA could become successful, and thus relegate hardline conservatives to the dustbin of history; and (ii) that a democrat is going to get credit for helping Americans.
Everything else is a sideshow.
After all, these tea-party Republicans who have complained for years that the ACA is causing "uncertainty" in the marketplace and destroying jobs are the same buffoons who are, by their actions, now actually causing uncertainty and destroying jobs.
And their call to repeal (or eliminate) the tax on medical goods actually increases the deficit---something they claim to be against.
And their refusal to vote on a clean Continuing Resolution actually ends up costing the federal government more money, because of all the work that went on last week to prepare for the shutdown, and the work to come to deal with the aftermath of the shutdown and the resulting backlog of work that never got handled during the shutdown.
Quite simply, these tea-party Republicans don't believe in democracy, nor do they believe in the "will of the people" that they profess to be following. The American people have repeatedly spoken that they like the ACA, that they want the ACA to be funded, and that they want ACA to succeed. The Republicans have lost a national election on the matter, they have lost state elections on the matter, and they have lost a Supreme Court case on the matter.
These people don't have any legitimate concerns about the ACA.
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Originally Posted by Fusebox
However, it is not lost on me that most labour unions, who are usually big supporters of Obama and Democrats in general, have raised huge concerns with some parts of the new law.
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The unions are mostly concerned about the future viability of their "Cadillac" health care plans that they have negotiated prior to the implementation of the ACA. Don't be misled or lose sight of the fact that most labor unions will eat their young in order to stay in power---what they are doing here is no different.