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    Six months into a tumultuous and less than productive Trump presidency, the time for honest and promised conservative health care reform is now, or else GOP Republicans will be looking down the barrel of a slaughter in the 2018 midterms, and as a result of that, a step closer to a government run single payer healthcare system.

    When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act back in 2009, now known belovedly and begrudgingly on both sides of the aisle as "Obamacare," he knew what was coming; a healthcare system that would be tossed into disarray by over-involvement of the government. By squeezing out the private insurance companies and mandating that absolutely EVERYONE buy healthcare insurance, regardless of age, financial background, health, and the choice individuals have to buy healthcare or not. Even following the 2008 election season, with the Democratic Party controlling every branch of the federal government easily, it was no secret to President Obama and the insiders of the Democratic Party that a lurch from the current healthcare system to single payer would simply be too big a jump. Even with health care reform being a popular campaign issue at the time, the jump to absolute government control of healthcare would be too much for America, regardless of who they had just elected. To move the healthcare system into full on single payer, a stepping stone needed to be created. Thus, the formulation of Obamacare.

    And what a stepping stone it has been. With premiums skyrocketing, people unable to keep their doctors, insurers pulling out, Obamacare has done what it was intended to do. By making millions of Americans hostage to mandated Medicaid,

    Republicans in Congress are now between a rock and a hard place. While promising to repeal the ACA wholesale for over seven years, which in large part led to an absolute Republicans retaking a majority across the federal government, the Republicans who promised a full repeal are pulling back on that promise, fearing backlash from the voters who put them where they are.

    Both the Senate and House versions of a new healthcare bill enshrined most of the key parts of Obamacare, and with the passage of any kind of health care bill, Republicans would own the mess that is the current healthcare system, just like Democrats have for 8 years now. Both bills, the Senate barely edging out the House bill to be the worse of the two, had no mentions of eliminating mandates on consumers or insurers, re-enshrines not just subsidies, but back pay on those subsidies to insurers, adds new entitlement programs for middle income Americans, just to name a few things. Republicans have one and only one shot to get this full repeal thing right, and if either of the bills that have been proposed are to become law, they will have broken their key promise.

    There is absolutely no in between on healthcare. It is full government control, or it is fully free market. Democrats have long realized this, and as a result continue to push for single payer healthcare systems that mimics Canada's or many of the countries in Western Europe. The GOP, the supposed party of minimal government and free markets, has to take the necessary steps to enshrine the free market latter, with a one line bill repealing the bill that has crippled the American healthcare system for far too long. Republicans, alongside our Republican President, have to rally together in order to scrap the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, repeal and then replace, if they intend to Make America Great Again.

poll#101

In regards to the Russia Election Tampering matter: Is President Trump being treated fairly by core Democrats and the Mainstream Media?

  Yes, the new president is guilty until proven innocent.

  No, President Trump's treatment is dictated by the usual Democrat double standard.

  Don't care; there are more important issues facing America.

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