Where was it edited? Did they alter his voice? Alter his words? Where? He said what he said to the reporter.
Simply put, it won’t work. If they have kids insured to 26, close the donut hole, waive pre-existing conditions AND LET THE MARKET DICTATE THE PRICE, then there will be a “victim-induced” scream fest (usual suspects) when they see the bill. And the “parade of victims” will be a cinematic production.
The Republicans will then be in a jam to find way to “fund” the areas they let survive.
Either West was talking too fast for his head, pandering to his senior citizen voting base or this was a trial balloon by the chicken-shit GOP leadership. One person says one thing while leadership says another. The optics don’t look good.
Either way, if the bill is struck down or gutted, the GOP will need a plan for the inevitable battle by the DEMS who will scream for something to replace it. The GOP wants reforms and “market place” solutions...then what is it? They need to get in front of this.
Donut hole good and works - nothing wrong with making folks aware of generic drugs, especially if they're on the tax-payers dollar.
The phrase was 'if folks want to keep their kids on insurance at 26, who cares" (or similar) - nothing about government paying for it.
Waiving preexisting conditions is a contentious item - if you or yours had some conditions that prevented your ability to obtain insurance, and couldn't afford to pay out of pocket for everything, would you just want to let yourself and/or yours roll over and die?
One saves money, one is a personal parental choice, and the other needs to be addressed as a form of "death panel" which is something you would agree is really bad about Obama-Care.