See Post #6. One thing that has stuck in the back of my mind over the last few weeks is that the Ryan bill was very much NOT the kind of approach Trump would ever take on anything. Everything about him has been a grand, over-the-top spectacle. The Ryan bill was the equivalent of a crappy tenement in the South Bronx for a guy who builds 60-story luxury towers in Manhattan. This leads me to consider one intriguing possibility: IT WAS NEVER INTENDED TO PASS AT ALL.
I agree that this was not the approach that Trump would have taken on such an critical issue. I think he also would have appealed to us and explained the benefits of the bill. Do you think this was his way of taking Ryan down? Giving him enough rope to hang himself?
Perhaps that’s the case but what is the path from here? Wait for explosion and then suddenly Congress will have the will to repeal it? The Dems are locked in which is an asset politically. There are too many soft est GOP members who will just bail it out or step deeper into single payer.
Unfortunately the discussion at the WH is likely when is best time to work w Dems to “improve” Obamacare so does not explode. I’m afraid this whole thing is going to move to the left when it does resurface.