Joseph Rugg's Health Law Blog

It’s been several months.  Where has the time gone?

I have been watching the unraveling of the foundations of the Affordable Care Act.  I have been depressed that the unraveling is coming from the President.

Then I saw the Republican “Plan” and I had hope.  Oh, yes, they can’t stop talking about repeal, but that’s not really what their Plan is about.  It is about improving.

It has always been my belief that our Republican elected representatives, patriotic men and women of good will, would adopt many of the same positive aspects of Obamacare, if they thought about it and shook themselves free of the closed and narrow minded of their constituents.  Access to health insurance, no preexisting conditions … I mean, who does not support these items in Obamacare?

Implementing is where the Republicans always fall short, because they refuse to take any step that would look like our government is actually governing.  A Republican omelet must look like a pan with eggs rolling around in it, since they have no stomach for breaking any.

I have hope that moderates of both parties follow the mandate they have had but have refused to acknowledge as they listened to the ranting of the flatworlder/Tea Party members.

By the way, in case you wondered …