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The problem is that the vast majority of insurance companies require individuals to pay their monthly premiums via automatic withdrawal from a checking account. This means if you don’t have a checking account, you can’t get insurance.
Republicans didn’t offer an overarching agenda or platform to voters during the 2014 midterm elections and party leaders were careful to avoid sweeping policy declarations when they fanned out across the morning T.V. talk shows to celebrate their victory on Wednesday. Instead, they promised to compromise with the president.
“It’s really important that our leaders in the legislature now set-up real achievable goals that are simple, that we can define for the American people,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus explained on MSNBC’s Morning Joe when asked how the party would position itself for the 2016 presidential election. Priebus stressed that Congressional Republicans must focus on “achievable things, work with the president, get those things done, repeat and repeat and repeat.”
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who oversaw the party pick-up as many as nine seats in the Senate to win the majority, was similarly cautious. “I think the mandate is about let’s see some accomplishments and I think that’s what you saw candidates across the country do, roll up our sleeves, let’s see what we can do together, and let’s demonstrate to the American people that we can actually work to accomplish for the good of the country,” he told MSNBC.
In Kansas recently, Republican Senator Pat Roberts, who’s in a tough race for reelection, made a statement that left me puzzled. “A vote for me is a vote to change the Senate back to a Republican majority, and we’ll get things done,” he said. “And it means a stop to the Obama agenda.”
Every new GOP senator who won in last night’s election campaigned on repealing Obamacare.
Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) all ran on a platform of repealing Obamacare.
Gardner touted patient-centered care and a full repeal and replacement of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
Cotton signed the Club for Growth’s “Repeal-It!” pledge which states, []b]“I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”
originally posted by: VimanaExplorer
a reply to: Gryphon66
I stand corrected, I think they don't have unlimited access, but there were reports that it will be harder for you to enroll without bank accounts. Looks like govt have given the power to private insurance companies.
The problem is that the vast majority of insurance companies require individuals to pay their monthly premiums via automatic withdrawal from a checking account. This means if you don’t have a checking account, you can’t get insurance.
The Affordable Care Act & The Unbanked, Part I
"I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government."
... to read these quotation marks in a way other than that obviously intended by the writer shows inflexibility on the part of the reader.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Gryphon66
Dirty stinking Republican Liars.
originally posted by: Sunwolf
Regardless of your defense of the ACA,it is an abomination.Talking of lies,how about "if you like your Doctor,you can keep your Doctor" and "If you like your insurance,you can keep your insurance" not to mention"the average family will save $2500.00 in premiums in a year".Lies upon lies is all we have gotten from this administration and the demo party and you fault the republicans?Stick that in your beak.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Gryphon66
They've scrubbed it from the internet !!!
But I remember hearing it.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: Sunwolf
Regardless of your defense of the ACA,it is an abomination.Talking of lies,how about "if you like your Doctor,you can keep your Doctor" and "If you like your insurance,you can keep your insurance" not to mention"the average family will save $2500.00 in premiums in a year".Lies upon lies is all we have gotten from this administration and the demo party and you fault the republicans?Stick that in your beak.
Speaking of lies, why do you overtly lie in post after post?
I have not defended the ACA, I have critiqued it at best, and criticised it more plainly.
I can't speak to the delusion that politicians don't lie.
I see no reason why you are, however, blatantly, time after time.
"Stick that in my beak" ... what, your garden-variety attempt at political discourse? LOL.
You're actually boring me to death.
ETA: Why don't you tell me what your "plan" is for healthcare, since your Republican buddies can't seem to come up with one?
Leave off the silly personal comments, and talk about the issue.
How will your plan cover the 20 million or so that now have insurance that didn't before?
How will you pay for your plan? What will you cut so as not to raise taxes?
How do you address the ever-increasing insurance rates that go up every year both before and after the ACA?
Go ahead, thrill us !