Fix Obamacare

Why should we fix Obamacare?  Because it worked despite republican attacks and legislative skullduggery. When congressional republicans realized the Obamacare legislation was going to pass, they built in flaws and ticking time bombs to scuttle the program once it was enacted. They continued to do this for over a year. Even in its weakened condition, the program survived.


Then trump was elected. Republicans attempted time and again to scuttle Obamacare. Even then they could not do it.


Like Social Security before it, congressional enemies worked hard to kill the program but instead it survived to become a champion safety net for America’s citizens. A great equalizer.


The same should occur for Obamacare. Why? Because it is affordable and effective in delivering equity and equality in matters of healthcare to a vast nation. Oh, the program has problems, especially now that even more damage to it has been delivered by two years of uncontrolled republican congressional power.


We hear demands now for Medicare for all but, in my opinion, as simple as that sounds, it is draconian in expense. We cannot afford this at this time. It may be a worthy goal 30 or 50 years from now, but not today. Instead, we should repair Obamacare to the standard it was once envisioned to be. Much more effective and less expensive than Medicare for all.


Once this is accomplished, the pressure will be off healthcare costs for a period of time. In that span of time, attend to other fiscal business and strengthen our once strong economy and federal government. Restore tax brackets recently removed, recapture more than $1 trillion in government revenues, curb military budgets, focus on reasonable border security programs while eliminating the need to build a wall coast to coast.


Once we have balanced the budget and begun to lower the national debt, consider the way forward toward repairing access to education, continuous job training, and restoration of individual liberty and dignity in these United States. Much damage has been done in recent years. We have much to re-accomplish.


Focus on some short term repairs now; prepare for a 2020 Presidential Election that will replace the dysfunctional one, and get back to business.


Enough nonsense for two generations. Let’s get on with it.


March 20, 2019