[nathanbedford]

Well before the Republicans and Trump came up with the abortive first Ryan care reform of Obama care, I advised that the only sensible political course was to let Obama care implode and then ride to the rescue. It is now not too late to let Obamacare go under. Seems to me that the president is within his rights to fail to continue to pay what a district judge has declared to be unconstitutional payments.

Jawboning the carriers to the effect that they will not be bailed out would accelerate the process.

The problem is that Ryan and the establishment Republicans, the leftists Republicans in the Senate, and Donald Trump himself all refused to face the realities of a national healthcare insurance system which incorporates features such as pre-existing condition which are politically attractive but which doomed the system to huge expense and even bankruptcy.

Now our only hope is that the Senate rejects the second reform attempt, in the teeth of the president's support, and delays long enough for the failure and implosion of Obama care to become obvious.

Alas, a forlorn hope.

Let us not forget, the real repeal of Obama care was one of the legs in Trump's plan revivify the economy.

[LS]

Nah, we will end up with some version of this, it won’t be perfect but Ocare is dead. We will slowly chip away at the remaining stuff in this bill til what remains is pretty good.

The economy had baked in Ocare, so there will be a rather massive recovery regardless, and we can see it already.