This is all very very good. And I don’t in any way want to diminish the great work that Trump is doing regarding Deconstructing the Administrate State.
But then why turn around and create the largest regulative and unconstitutional act which by in itself creates its own economic structure with healthcare.
National Review writer David French says, “Obamacare is the leading edge of what called a “vast and bloated executive branch — existing through its alphabet soup of agencies such as the EPA, IRS, DOE, ATF, and the like.””
You won’t like the answer but here it is: there is no “free market”/simple repeal health care LAW that can get through congress. Too many people have lost policies under Obamacare, and now the public is conditioned to expect that some of those will be made up.
French (a neverTrumper, BTW) notwithstanding, IMHO the best way to reduce the scope of government’s role in health care is get something in place, then whittle, and whittle.
Although ultimately it did not achieve its objective of preventing a civil war, the Compromise of 1850 is a good example of how to do this: Henry Clay tried to get it all at once, satisfying everybody. But he could never get everyone on board. However, Stephen Douglas stepped in and found that he could get each part of the Compromise passed individually by picking off certain senators.
I think ultimately this has to be the approach. It’s much harder, and will take longer than if we had the votes-—but we don’t, and to keep pretending that the Senate will back a full repeal with people like Collins and Murkowski in there, well, it’s fantasy.
But then I would like to trash him none-the-less.
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David French....the classic Never Trumper