Obama Isn't The Only One That CARES. GOP Offers Twisted Alternative To ACA

When the healthcare.gov roll out got botched, the republican party saw some daylight.

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The second term election of Barack Obama was a signature achievement alone.  Republicans may not have put as much support into Romney as was needed for victory, but they certainly staked all of their hope on him winning.  When he didn't win, the disappointment became bitterness rather quickly.

Nothing like a botched roll out to sweeten sour puss conservatives.  The opposition against ObamaCare was virtually silent prior to the roll out, and suddenly the passions peaked once again.  Websites that don't work well are certainly a cause for controversy, but they are also fixable, and the fervor for an ObamaCare repeal has died with increased enrollment.

Chicken Little has declared the sky to be falling for so long that he has now lost his audience.  If you need a new audience to listen to you fight the Affordable Care Act, you create an alter ego to the Affordable Care Act.  Enter, stage right, the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, Empowerment Act (nicknamed CARE).  The PCAREA (nicknamed care?) is a peculiar solution to the ACA because it does many of the same things, but eliminates the mandates and many protections of the ACA.  It is also a failed attempt to create a cool acronym.

After reading about the plan, I found a few elements that could be cherry picked into the ACA, but the general idea feels like ObamaCare light with the feel of repeal.  My real hunch is that republicans will  not push this agenda forward to repeal the ACA, they will push it forward to silence the critics (some from their own camp) who say they do not have a formal plan.

Up until now, if you asked a republican for an alternative to ObamaCare they would simply say, 'there are a lot of ideas out there to consider'.  What they failed to accept is that a lot of ideas is code for none worth speaking about.  Until you can refer to a specific plan, and offer up details that represent a difference, then you sound like you are arguing for the sake of argument.

Now republicans can say "we CARE too".  Disregard that the Patient choice affordability responsibility empowerment Act requires you ignore the patient and the act to create the CARE.  This kind of CARE is not like healthcare.  It is like political care which only cures soundbites and polling numbers.

If you would actually like healthcare,  sign up at healthcare.gov while you still can.