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I Believe Few Understand Obamacare

The CBO or the Congressional Budget Office just released their bipartisan report on the first year effects of repealing Obamacare.

To start 18 million people will lose their insurance. Here is the one that few Obamacare haters ever talked about. The CBO said to expect 20 to 30% rise in premiums and that's just the first year.

In the end the CBO concludes the number of Americans losing their insurance will cap out at 32 million and premiums will rise 20 percent higher.

Update: This is a worst case scenario and if there is a replacement the numbers will fall. I just have never believed the Republicans will ever get around to replacing Obamacare.
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Yep. These people have pretty much screwed us all, and they don't even realize that but for the obstructionists who didn't want everyone to have affordable healthcare if President Obama was the person given credit (no other reason) and sabotaged it and its components at every single turn, it would probably have run smoothly. In the states with government who cooperated with the president (like mine), people were mostly happy with the results. And more people had coverage and healthcare than ever before.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
He's actually done some good things for the country. In fact better than I expected, after he was handed the worst economic failure since 1929. But he's never been given full credit, or even basic respect from anyone on the other side.

And after 8 years of watching and waiting for some rational, common sense reason for the unending right wing hostility & opposition, there's only one thing that really explains it:

He's Black,
Unforgivably Black.

And they've never gotten over it.
@BatRinseRepeat: That's right, my friend. And for all the waffling and the "I don't care about his race" bs, they felt they had to "atone" by replacing him with a Klansmen, the worst possible alternative, to indicate a real slap in the face. If I had any doubts about their racism towards Barack Obama, with their choice of Donald Trump I no longer do. I feel vindicated.
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@SarahD: Exactly.