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Originally Posted by photon
Woo Ryan just announced he plans to phase out Medicare and replace it with private insurance for old people. It's like GOP Christmas.
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I spent today really thinking about everything that is likely to happen now, and how it will effect the GOP's main voter base. Senior citizens are more than happy to side with you on those damn entitlements as long as they're sure you're talking about welfare and food stamps...I'm not sure all those senior citizens realize that medicare and social security are under that same "entitlement" umbrella that the GOP rail against.
What happens if over the next two years, medicare becomes private insurance (which has been increasing in cost for decades, well before the ACA became law) and social security becomes privatized and turned over to Wall Street. I wonder if those same senior citizens will be so eager to vote GOP if their quality of life has been dramatically effected?
And if the GOP ends the ACA, thus kicking 20+ million people off of their insurance, leaving those with pre-existing conditions in the lurch, how many people are going to want to vote for them?
The GOP can finally do everything they've promised to do for 6 years, without anyone to stop them. What happens when they actually get their way? How will their constituents react?
I'm curious to see how things go in 2018, assuming all hell doesn't break loose between now and then.