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The real world of Obamacare repeal...By Charles Krauthammer
« on: March 17, 2017, 01:56:06 pm »

By Charles Krauthammer Opinion writer March 16 at 7:13 PM

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, but for governments it’s not that easy. Once something is given — say, health insurance coverage to 20 million Americans — you take it away at your peril. This is true for any government benefit, but especially for health care. There’s a reason not one Western democracy with some system of national health care has ever abolished it.

The genius of the left is to keep enlarging the entitlement state by creating new giveaways that are politically impossible to repeal. For 20 years, Republicans railed against the New Deal. Yet, when they came back into office in 1953, Eisenhower didn’t just keep Social Security, he expanded it.

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Re: The real world of Obamacare repeal...By Charles Krauthammer
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2017, 04:14:36 am »
He is correct. These fiscal issues are ignored until economics force them.
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Re: The real world of Obamacare repeal...By Charles Krauthammer
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2017, 05:01:32 am »
Quote from: LMAO on March 18, 2017, 04:14:36 am
He is correct. These fiscal issues are ignored until economics force them.

And then you are talking bloodshed.

Because many someones will be blamed for when the handouts are no longer handed out, and most likely wielded as a political weapon against the Haves and those who Had.

(See French Revolution, 1790s.)
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Re: The real world of Obamacare repeal...By Charles Krauthammer
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2017, 08:48:28 am »
Just think, if the election had gone the other way we'd be debating single payer right this minute.
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