[BenLurkin]

I have one.

It’s called free enterprise.

[Sacajaweau]

There's only two plays here....Pass it and get criticized...or don't pass it and get criticized.

It'll happen....in time.

The problem was setting a deadline to start with.

Trump did right to move on. Even Cramer suggested it.

[humblegunner]

(Excerpt) Read more at

Why not post the whole thing?

It's your own lame blog, after all.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Can we stop with this "failed" narrative? We didn't fail, we just didn't get it on the first try. Saying we failed just says that we'll only get one chance and blew it.

We'll get other chances, and we'll have a better chance once Trump's policies of bring jobs back and rebuilding our infrastructure start to bear fruit.

This didn't go as planned, but let's not allow ourselves to be boxed into this "failed" narrative, especially since Trump has only been in office two months.

[Haiku Guy]

The GOP should not be tinkering with the mechanism of oppression, hoping for a better result. The only rational choice is the blow up the system and let free people make free decisions about health insurance.

Once the GOP admits that government has a central role in the health insurance market, they have lost.

Repeal it all. People managed to get medical care and arrange insurance before the government got involved. Given the opportunity, they would do so again.

[catnipman]

here’s what i think:

The enemedia and RINO NeverTrump articles about this so-called “failure” are all delusional, and the best part is that they actually believe their own delusions.

I heard President Trump say a few weeks ago that his administration wouldn’t be addressing obamacare repeal and replace until late 2017 to early 2018 (basically when obamacare would be facing complete collapse), so I can’t wait to watch these fools freak the F out when his administration introduces a REAL repeal and replace bill 9 months from now.

As far as President Trump was concerned, RyanCare was nothing but a red herring intended to take Paul Ryan out of all future equations about everything.

RyanCare was a real abortion of a bill, written by the insurance companies who were the only ones who were going to benefit from its passage. The insurance companies clearly had this bill already in hand, and I feel certain had cut a deal with Paul Ryan BEFORE the election, fully expecting HILLARY CLINTON to be President, but believing that some Pub House votes would be needed to get the bill through the House.

RyanCare was actually SUPPOSED to have been HillaryCare, which was why the original RyanCare bill preserved 99.9% of obamacare, and it supposed to have been Hillary’s gift to the insurance companies, while simultaneously shafting Trump’s voters, who are the people who would have suffered the worse under HillaryCare/RyanCare, with even higher premiums than we pay now.

Ryan went ahead with HillaryCare anyway, thinking he could bulldoze the House into screwing their own constituencies even worse than happened with obamacare. If this had passed, Ryan also knew that it would totally sink Trump’s ship before four years was out, which was another major goal of Ryan’s, namely, to try to destroy President Trump before 2020.

[Ray76]

Why don't doctors post prices?

I want to see prices posted for routine care and common treatments.

I want to be able to comparison shop. I want to know which doctors have a reputation of doing a good job and which don't. Just as with anything else.

I understand that treatment for serious problems may be open ended. The proper role of insurance is to handle such events. Insurance is for high consequence/low probability events. Insurance is not for routine care such as a physical exam, common illnesses, common childhood injuries, etc.

Caring for combat veterans and for those who have a permanent physical or mental disability must be provided for, but these are entirely different sets of circumstances and the needs differ from those of most.

A one-size-fits-all "comprehensive" government program which seizes control of individuals and corporations is monstrously abhorrent. It is not only morally objectionable but is doomed to failure. History is piled high with failed centrally planned programs.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Why was [Rand Paul] not involved in the formation of the American Health Care Act?”

Because Ryan’s lobbyist handlers did not want Rand and his free market ideas anywhere near this bill.

[TBP]

From what I’ve read, yes.

[meyer]

The Republicans had one 2 years ago.