A former Obama Administration official and MSNBC contributor confronted Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) for suggesting that Democrats “jammed through” the Affordable Care Act “on a hundred percent partisan basis” during Morning Joe on Monday, and claimed that Republicans are trying to repeal reform within the context of a continuing resolution because they fear that it could actually work. “We worked for 14 months to get bipartisan support and nine months until September 2009, where Senator Baucus was working with Senators Grassley and others to try to get bipartisan support, and we had one word from the Republicans, ‘nyet,’” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, reminded Johnson. “And then we went it alone.” EMANUEL: "We had another election, the 2012 election on Obamacare. Obama won. The country has said over and over we are going to support this reform. The Republicans have never given a coherent alternative that controls cost, expands access to health care to everyone in the country and improves quality. We have Obamacare, we have the Affordable Care Act and it will go into law. And what you are worried about is people are going to like it. That it is going to solve the problem of access and cost. That’s why we have all the heated rhetoric."
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:33:51 +0000
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