Crowdsource Project: GOP/Conservative Health Care Predictions Of DOOM

10:04 am EST March 19th, 2010 | Politics | 9 Comments

I vaguely remember the GOP back in 1993 promising us that the economic policies of President Clinton would lead to certain doom and disaster for the US economy. We proceeded to have the longest peacetime expansion of the economy in our nation’s history.

In that vein, I’d like to keep a long list of the Republican/conservative predictions of DOOM relating to the passage of Health Care Reform, which seems – knock on wood – quite likely to finally happen this weekend. Please put your suggestions in the comments along with a link to the source and I will collect them here so we can check them against reality in the coming years.

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9 Responses to “Crowdsource Project: GOP/Conservative Health Care Predictions Of DOOM”

  1. Mister Steve says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:06 am

    You know I’ve really been supporting the health care bill all along. I was disappointed that it didn’t include at least a public option, but I held my nose and said it is a good thing anyway. However, I just read today that the provision that gets rid of denial because of pre-existing conditions for adults doesn’t kick in for another four years.

    What a load of crap. I predict that if there’s a turnover of power in congress this fall (and that sounds likely), anything left in the bill will be rescinded by this time next year.

  2. Indeed says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:10 am

    Well then, we have some work to do, don’t we. Let’s get to it! Fight tha Power!

  3. Indeed says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Dutch Reagan’s record about Medicare had a whole bunch of scary stuff in it about how doctors wouldn’t be able to choose where they lived and whatnot. Right wing fought tooth and nail against Medicare, now they pretend to save it from Liberals (see also Toles’ cartoon about 2012 with elephant saying “They’re trying to take away your ObamaCare!”–heh).

    As you noted, there were dire warnings from the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Right Wing Noise Machine of the time about the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993. They said it would put us into a deep depression and so forth. Not one Republican Senator voted for it. How’d the economy do after 1993? Look that up.

    Predictions from the Right Wing about integrating the military didn’t work out so well. Same with Same Sex Marriage in Mass and other places. Prominent and influential modern Republicans (i.e., Right Wingers) have long declared that gays, ACLU people, and sundry non Christionists will cause the U.S. to suffer various biblical plagues. And it will be their fault (see also D’Souza, Dinesh).

    There’s more. I don’t have time for linx and all that, but they’re there.

  4. SaveFarris says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:39 am

    How’d the economy do after 1993? Look that up.

    pretty anemic, actually. Right up until november 1994. I’m trying to rack my brain remembering if anything significant happened that month…

  5. Indeed says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:42 am

    They repealed the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993?

  6. bikelib says:
    March 19, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    The reason why so many of the GOP’s political types worry about meaningful HCR passing is that, like Medicare, they’re afraid it will prove to be effective; and therefore poular.

  7. bikelib says:
    March 19, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    Obviously, that would be “popular”….

  8. Indeed says:
    March 19, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    Word. And their overlords wouldn’t like that one bit.

  9. merl says:
    March 19, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    save farris, it’d be easier to rack your brain if you stood up.