From Hot Air via Talking Points Memo...(say what?!!)
Senate GOP leadership wants to restore federal ObamaCare subsidies through 2017 if SCOTUS strikes them down
Heavy majorities, including a majority of Republicans, want the subsidies restored if the White House loses in Halbig, an ominous sign for the congressional GOP. In theory, voter anger could be so intense that both chambers of Congress will end up back under Democratic control, ensuring that the subsidies will be restored anyway.
Just as I predicted.
And now even Hot Air is admitting what the rest of us already knew: the ACA is gaining popularity because it's effective and working.
It looks like it may not matter much how SCOTUS rules on King v Burwell in June.
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This was why Republicans fought it so much. They hate it when government helps the American people.
They portray this opposition as a principled stand against creeping socialism. But why should employers be responsible for health care?
When that CEO in Seattle announced he was setting a $70K minimum wage for his employees, he was denounced as a socialist. Paying for an employee's health care is just as socialist.
To level the playing field across industries, and to make American employers more competitive with companies in Europe, employers simply should not pay for employee's health care.
Every person should be responsible for buying their own health care from a private insurer, and if they can't afford it, get a subsidy.
Switching over to the new system presents obvious pitfalls. But employers damn well know how much they're paying for each employee's health care, and they should just turn that into salary. They've been doing this by stealth for years anyway, constantly raising the premiums employees pay.
This is a no-brainer. Why are Republicans still arguing about this?
Because they don't like to lose and they did in so many ways.
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