It’s not just about free markets, its also about a governing majority. Many of the moderate members in favor of the bill and who opposed the HFC demands are in states where Hillary won and who are up for election a year from now. If they lose their seats there may not be a House Republican majority come 2018.
Many of the “purists” here on FR have this damn the torpedoes gusto. Well, the Trump Hindenburg just took a strike thanks to the obstinacy of the HFC.
It’s not just about free markets, its also about a governing majority. Many of the moderate members in favor of the bill and who opposed the HFC demands are in states where Hillary won and who are up for election a year from now. If they lose their seats there may not be a House Republican majority come 2018.
This is why the three-phase approach laid out in the Ryan plan was so ludicrous. Why would the whole "fix" rely on a Phase 3 that was never going to happen? Do you think any of these moderates were going to be more likely to vote for a true health care reform bill in 2019, 2020, or any year after that?
Why would you want conservative Republicans to betray their constituents (and their principles) just to protect the political futures of moderates in states that Hillary Clinton won?
I live in a state that Hillary Clinton won. My own Republican Congressman announced that he was opposed to the Ryan bill. When is Donald Trump going to send out a Twitter message sarcastically thanking him for preserving ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood funding?
i much don’t give a CRAP about re-elections, protecting ANYONE.
The deductibles and costs of HealthCare are UP thanx2 ObammyCare and they wanted to pass a crap sandwich that didn’t do a DAMN thing to repeal.
Cry me a river. REPEAL. Free Markets will decide the rest.
AND don’t give me that CRAP about ooooh, the ones that will lose their healthcare if we just repeal.... Cry me a f’n river.
Many of the “purists” here on FR have this damn the torpedoes gusto. Well, the Trump Hindenburg just took a strike thanks to the obstinacy of the HFC.
The saddest part is not only did the virtue signalling Freedom Caucus members badly damage POTUS’s entire conservative agenda but they didn’t get anything in return. We’re still stuck in Obamacare hell like a beltway version of Waiting for Godot. Not that the exempt beltway gum flappers in the Freedom Caucus care one bit about that.