Jack Doyle – 6/27/15

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Republicans need to stop fighting ACA; Jack Doyle; Beaver County Times; June 27, 2015.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I am waiting for one Republican candidate for President, one Republican member of Congress, to acknowledge the fact that the Affordable Care Act has been a success. After all, it was the Republicans who presented this plan originally. It has worked so well in Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts, that the Democrats adopted the program as their own.”

[RWC] On what basis does Mr. Doyle claim “the Affordable Care Act has been a success?”

The claim “Republicans … presented this plan originally” is a mix of fact and fiction. In 1993, Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) introduced a bill with some items similar to Obamacare. There was no action on the bill after its introduction. As for Mr. Chaffee (a RINO), he was the least conservative Republican senator and was to the left of some Democrats. When he lost re-election in 2006, Mr. Chaffee switched to being an independent. According to Wikipedia, “[Mr. Chaffee] was a supporter of Democrat Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and … was a co-chair of Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign and in May 2013, he announced he was switching his registration to the Democratic Party.” It’s a gross misrepresentation to assert Mr. Chaffee’s bill was a “Republican” proposal.

As with Obamacare, Mr. Doyle didn’t provide anything to support his assertion Romneycare “worked so well.”

“The Republicans describe the ACA as ‘fundamentally flawed,’ yet offer no examples of these flaws, and no serious alternatives. I hope that Rep. Keith Rothfus will stop wasting his time trying for repeal, and start promoting programs to raise middle-class wages. I’m not holding my breath.”

[RWC] Mr. Doyle claims Republicans offer no examples of Obamacare flaws. Republicans have described the flaws ad nauseam; Mr. Doyle simply refuses delivery. By “no serious alternatives,” Mr. Doyle means big-government alternatives. Here’s only one example of an alternative.

Please read “Healthcare.”

Exactly how would government “programs … raise middle-class wages?”