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The Spectacle Blog
In the Daily Caller today, I have an op-ed remembering the brief life of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. It was passed with far more bipartisan support than the health care bill that just became law; it was signed by a Republican president (Ronald Reagan — even Homer nods). In a year and a half, the legislation was repealed.
I’m under no illusions that repealing Obamacare will be easy or that it is analogous to the ill-fated Medicare expansion in every way. But when the focus is on angry voters paying costs rather than constituents collecting benefits, entitlements can be repealed. It has happened before.
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Tim| 3.30.10 @ 3:07PM
As I recall, the video of the time seemed obsessed with golf playing seniors in Florida.
Jeremiah| 3.30.10 @ 3:34PM
DEFUND OBAMACARE!
brucet| 3.30.10 @ 3:47PM
Obamacare is such poorly designed legislation, so 1930’s style state-run “command and control” policy that it won’t likely have but tiny bits of it enacted. It destroys capital, incentivizes more dependency on government and stifles business enterprise, which means fewer jobs for Americans by shifting some healthcare jobs overseas. In fact, you could call it a job stimulus program for China and India.
wodiej| 3.30.10 @ 4:49PM
The ignorance, arrogance and stupidity of passing this bill has already begun. CBO now claims their numbers were "off". I am sure there is alot more coming down the pike but don't expect liberals to gain any common sense and save face by repealing it. The common sense conservatives will need to do that.
Indy Voter| 3.30.10 @ 6:30PM
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GHD | 3.30.10 @ 9:23PM
CBO now claims their numbers were "off". I am sure there is alot more coming down the pike but don't expect liberals to gain any common sense and save face by repealing it.
Philip| 3.30.10 @ 10:45PM
The difference again between 1988 and now is that the Medicare Cat Care was passed with a bipartisan congress and a bipartisan congress repealed it. Or, more clearly, Republicans were involved.
Then as now, citizens complained before it passed and they also complained after they found out about it. But the huge difference is the Democrats do not listen to the will of the people.
Here is the video of the Town-Hall Battle in 1989 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qre7DzEtxyc
Jocon307| 3.31.10 @ 7:53AM
I realize Prohibition was not an entitlement (rather the opposite). But it's passage and repeal involved amending the Constitution TWICE in a rather short time. And that, or I should say those things were done.
I hope that after Obamacare is repealed (I'm afraid Madame Pelosi was right, NOW we'll find out what's in it) we can start on the much bigger project of restructuring much of the federal gov't and returning it to its constitutionally mandated tasks.
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