March 29, 2024

5 Reasons Obamacare Is Still In Trouble

Don’t celebrate yet, Democrats.

With the failure of the “skinny repeal” of Obamacare to pass the Senate on Thursday evening, the repeal and replace Obamacare effort seems to be dead for the time being. While Obamacare seems to be permanently entrenched into our body politic, there is a glimmer of hope to suggest that Obamacare could eventually be significantly dismantled.

Here are five reasons why Obamacare is still in trouble.

1. The pain the law is causing Americans will only worsen as time goes on. Take a look at this graphic from Axios:

And now couple it with this piece from The Daily Wire‘s Hank Berrien:

Early Friday morning a middle-aged financial couple in Manhattan jumped to their deaths, with the husband, 53, leaving behind a suicide note indicating their despair over their inability to pay their medical bills.

The New York Post reported that the wife, 50, also left a suicide note, according to law enforcement. The husband’s note, which was typewritten, began, “WE HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE,” adding “Patricia and I had everything in life.” But the husband segued to writing of the couple’s “financial spiral” and how “we can not live with” the “financial reality.” He added words to the effect: “’We both have medical issues, we just can’t afford the health care.’”

The wife wrote, in part, “In sum and substance, ‘Our kids are upstairs, please take care of them.’”

The couple leaped from the 9th-floor window of a 17-story corner office building on Madison Avenue at roughly 5:45 a.m. on 33rd Street between Park and Madison Avenues, according to police.

When putting the two together, you see that Obamacare’s onerous regulations and mandates are causing health care costs to become even more unaffordable and obliterate the insurance market to the point where there will be endless insurance bailouts in order to prop up the industry. As the law worsens, the cries to be free from Obamacare will get louder and harder to ignore.

2. The Democrats can’t tie President Trump to an unpopular piece of legislation. Ben Shapiro has argued that the Democrats can position themselves well in 2018 if they unify in opposition to Trump and the Republicans and connect them to an unpopular piece of legislation. The polling data was abysmal for all of the Obamacare replacement bills that Congress took up, so had any of them actually passed Congress and signed into law by the president, the Democrats would have had a golden opportunity to strike back in 2018. They don’t quite have that opportunity now.

Which leads to this next point …

3. 2018 is hardly a slam dunk for the Democrats. Prior to the soap opera drama surrounding the Trump administration and the fecklessness of the Republicans in Congress, people were expecting the 2018 midterm elections to be rough for the Democrats, as the Democrats have 25 seats up for re-election, 10 of which are in states that Trump won in November. The Democrats have failed to win a special election in the Trump era thus far as they continue to double down on identity politics and hard left socialism.

4. Republican senators could face primaries in 2018. While these primary efforts failed in 2014, the inability of Republican senators to repeal Obamacare could cause an intensified effort to primary the more moderate-to-liberal Republican squishes in the Senate. Some Republicans that conservatives can zero in on in primaries include Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dean Heller (R-NV), Bob Corker (R-TN) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ). It’s an incredibly daunting task to primary an incumbent senator, so even if a handful get ousted it would be a major wake-up call to the feckless Republican leadership.

5. Convention of States. The shenanigans in the federal government garner most of the media attention, but there is a movement that’s simmering under the radar: the Convention of States movement, where two-thirds of states can call for a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution, which would then have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. As people become increasingly fed up with the federal government, a Convention of States will be looked at as the last hope to save the country, and perhaps the last hope to tear apart Obamacare from the fabric of American society.

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Source: The Daily Wire

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