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Obamacare is only 'exploding' in red states
Topic Started: Jul 15 2017, 07:35 PM (545 Views)
ringotuna
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CautionaryTales
Jul 16 2017, 04:25 PM
The factors are many and I'll give you that. The bottom line is that if you want a program to fail and if you put your efforts into making it fail, there is a good chance it will fail in time.
The Republicans are on record that they want the ACA to fail and they have taken steps in the states they control to fulfill their intentions.

In the states where efforts are being made to make the ACA successful ( Democratic states) there is a much better chance it will work because efforts are being made to make it work.

It isn't a hard concept to understand. It's actually pretty simple to understand.

Don't service your truck for a couple of years. Don't change the oil, don't take it in for scheduled services. Don't make repairs when a problem becomes evident...see what happens.

Now, watch as your neighbor follows the maintenance schedule on his truck, same truck model as yours. He changes the oil, keeps the service schedule and shines that sucker up on his weekends off.

In three years he has a truck that works for him, your is a pile of crap and you are visiting dealers to look for a new truck.

That's the point of the op. It's a valid point.
But it's only part of the overall formula for failure, and your simplified generalization does not hold up entirely when you look at the number of Democratic states who've lost insurers (see my chart). Note that the distribution of lost insurers is hardly limited to red states.

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ringotuna
Jul 16 2017, 04:38 PM
CautionaryTales
Jul 16 2017, 04:25 PM
The factors are many and I'll give you that. The bottom line is that if you want a program to fail and if you put your efforts into making it fail, there is a good chance it will fail in time.
The Republicans are on record that they want the ACA to fail and they have taken steps in the states they control to fulfill their intentions.

In the states where efforts are being made to make the ACA successful ( Democratic states) there is a much better chance it will work because efforts are being made to make it work.

It isn't a hard concept to understand. It's actually pretty simple to understand.

Don't service your truck for a couple of years. Don't change the oil, don't take it in for scheduled services. Don't make repairs when a problem becomes evident...see what happens.

Now, watch as your neighbor follows the maintenance schedule on his truck, same truck model as yours. He changes the oil, keeps the service schedule and shines that sucker up on his weekends off.

In three years he has a truck that works for him, your is a pile of crap and you are visiting dealers to look for a new truck.

That's the point of the op. It's a valid point.
But it's only part of the overall formula for failure, and your simplified generalization does not hold up entirely when you look at the number of Democratic states who've lost insurers (see my chart). Note that the distribution of lost insurers is hardly limited to red states.

Yeah, who knew healthcare was so complicated?


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Not sayin your correlation to causation is entirely false...just sayin there's a bigger picture here, and you can't fix a problem if you won't admit what caused it.

Gotta boogie on outta here...think about it.
Edited by ringotuna, Jul 16 2017, 04:47 PM.
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ringotuna
Jul 16 2017, 04:47 PM
Not sayin your correlation to causation is entirely false...just sayin there's a bigger picture here, and you can't fix a problem if you won't admit what caused it.

Gotta boogie on outta here...think about it.
Boogie on, friend.


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ringotuna
Jul 16 2017, 04:38 PM
CautionaryTales
Jul 16 2017, 04:25 PM
The factors are many and I'll give you that. The bottom line is that if you want a program to fail and if you put your efforts into making it fail, there is a good chance it will fail in time.
The Republicans are on record that they want the ACA to fail and they have taken steps in the states they control to fulfill their intentions.

In the states where efforts are being made to make the ACA successful ( Democratic states) there is a much better chance it will work because efforts are being made to make it work.

It isn't a hard concept to understand. It's actually pretty simple to understand.

Don't service your truck for a couple of years. Don't change the oil, don't take it in for scheduled services. Don't make repairs when a problem becomes evident...see what happens.

Now, watch as your neighbor follows the maintenance schedule on his truck, same truck model as yours. He changes the oil, keeps the service schedule and shines that sucker up on his weekends off.

In three years he has a truck that works for him, your is a pile of crap and you are visiting dealers to look for a new truck.

That's the point of the op. It's a valid point.
But it's only part of the overall formula for failure, and your simplified generalization does not hold up entirely when you look at the number of Democratic states who've lost insurers (see my chart). Note that the distribution of lost insurers is hardly limited to red states.

Senator Remy nails this ....

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