COMMENTS:
* Denial, denial and more denial. Seems the TP/GOP has a mental condition and lives in the world of denial no matter how many facts are right in their faces.
* Well my personal experience, working in the medical field for 30 years and as a wife of a husband who until the ACA came along could not afford health insurance because he is a cancer survivor, I absolutely believe that the ACA has made a big difference for the better. Now if we could get single payer,that would be even better. Sorry you keep taking all your talking points from the right but if you actually looked up the facts you'd find your post doesn't hold water.
* If they start admitting they were wrong ... there'll be a flood of things they'll have to admit they were wrong about ... Pretty much everything ... From Obama collapsing the economy, to death panels, to FEMA re-education camps for white people, to brown shirts, to their coming for your guns, to ammo taxes... Obama's a Kenyan ... a Muslim ... can't protect us ... the country will fall apart ... Their only real option is to continue lying to themselves and the rest of us ... they know only Republican Stupid-Party Members will buy the drivel, but they spew it anyway ... silence kills them. So they need to fill it with noise.
* If teapubs couldn't lie, they would have nothing to say.
* Facts be damned in RWNJ alternate reality. Thump them with facts al day long and they'll still dismiss it as LW propaganda,even from known neutral sites UNLESS something matches their narrative. Cherry-picking reality,constant fear and paranoia about everything 24/7. What a life.
* Mark Twain said there are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. We should probably include Republican political beliefs to make Twain more up to date.
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House Republican can’t believe his lying eyes
By Steve Benen, June 12, 2015
For quite a while, Republican critics of the Affordable Care Act seemed certain that the law would not reduce the uninsured rate. For GOP officials, “Obamacare” would really only help those who already have coverage, the argument said, so there was no reason to expect the number of Americans without insurance to improve.
This, like every other Republican prediction on the health care law, turned out to be completely wrong.
This left GOP officials with a bit of a challenge. They could either acknowledge reality but move the goalposts, or they could simply pretend reality doesn’t exist at all. ThinkProgress found a great example of the latter.
In an interview with the Trussville Tribune earlier this week, freshman Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) declared that, on net, no additional people have gained insurance since the passage of Obamacare. “I’m not sure that’s true that more people are covered,” Palmer declared after the host noted that more people have health care today than in 2010. “There’s just about as many people uninsured now as there were before the Affordable Care Act.”I’m not unsympathetic to the Republicans’ dilemma here – the facts really do make their job difficult. Consider:
1. If Obamacare is successfully reducing the uninsured rate, it means the law is working effectively.
2. Obamacare can’t be working effectively, because it’s Obamacare.
3. .Ergo, the uninsured rate isn’t improving.
And while this framework probably brings comfort to those who feel the need to oppose the ACA for partisan and ideological reasons, facts be damned, the trouble is reality just keeps getting in the way.
This isn’t in the realm of opinion. The Affordable Care Act has done a fantastic job in extending health security to millions of previously uninsured consumers, which, naturally, has caused a sharp drop in the nation’s uninsured rate. Republicans may find all of this terribly inconvenient, but it’s just what’s happened.
The alternative GOP line, which wouldn’t be persuasive either, would be to say that Republicans have changed their minds and they no longer consider an improved uninsured rate important. To be sure, such a posture would be laughable, but it would at least be coherent.
But instead we see members of Congress arguing, out loud and in public, “There’s just about as many people uninsured now as there were before the Affordable Care Act,” which is demonstrably ridiculous.
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