Republicans: why no GOP health care reform effort?

Yes they should...and yes they would be. The 1300 greed-driven for-profit insurance companies in this country paid mighty big big bucks to the GOP and negative ad funding via the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to convince the voting public to act AGAINST their own interests by choosing teapotty candidates willing to be against any consumer-protecting and vitally-needed reforms within the insurance industry. Same with bankers and Wall Street, but hey, that's another story.

Big-oil got involved in negating anything Democrats, anything Obama ("The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC) and funded much of the Summer 2009 organized and SCRIPTED town hall disruptions by Republican and Beck show staffers (uncovered by Rachel Maddow's investigators) that were attempting to BLOCK and KILL health care and insurance reforms. Meanwhile, the GOP's own PR firm Hill & Knowlton and conservative think-tank conspirators (i.e. , CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation, the cult in D.C. that calls itself The Family (Sharlet, 2008, 2010) and YWAM among other names, etc.) funded by all the anti-reform lobbyists launched an all-out ATTACK on "government takeovers" (NOT true), on "death panels" (NEVER TRUE!), on "socialized medicine" (NOT true---the for-profits in the health care industry still exist as for-profits), and so on.

So these far-right-wing teabagging evangelicals con their way into office by playing to and preying upon people's misguided (thanks to propaganda) fears, promising the "get rid of that big bad 'wolf' that threatens to just devour us"---i.e. , health care and insurance reforms. Upon arriving in Washington D.C., however, these right-wingers suddenly discover they WANT their "socialized" health care plan!

OOPS! One teabagger even DEMANDED that he get his now! He was told he had to wait until after February 1st, and the man threw a temper tantrum!

What hypocrites! The more people learn about the individual provisions within this historic legislation and all of its supplementals (i.e. , the Fix It bill, for one), the harder things will be for these incoming freshmen in terms of overturning anything, to include the no-cost preventive care provisions, etc. See whitehouse.gov or cnn.com/healthcare for more details.

Or ReadTheBill.org is an excellent resource as well. The "Fix It" contains all the committee mark-ups that my dearly disorganized Democrats actually used STRATEGY to push through on the very same night the Affordable Care Act of 2009 finally passed the Senate! There is a provision for DIRECT student loans through the Department of Education (thus eliminating high-interest banks as middlemen), and one to keep children on parents' policies until they are age 26.

Small business owners now get to POOL with other small businesses to get more CLOUT when negotiating with greed-driven insurers. There's a LOT TO LIKE in the health care and insurance reforms, so repealing them is not something that can be done, in my opinion.

The buttheads all exempted themselves from the healthcare reform buddy.

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