The GOP should not be tinkering with the mechanism of oppression, hoping for a better result. The only rational choice is the blow up the system and let free people make free decisions about health insurance.
Once the GOP admits that government has a central role in the health insurance market, they have lost.
Repeal it all. People managed to get medical care and arrange insurance before the government got involved. Given the opportunity, they would do so again.
Tactics defeat policy every single time. Trump is president because he made extra trips to Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Had some message discipline his final 2-3 weeks.
Build the Wall. Repeal and Replace. Bring jobs back to those areas.
But he is president because of the tactics of THOSE AREAS.
Now he has the audacity to not be a politician and try to do what he promised his voters (who are not conservative, those states voted for Obama twice).
He promised them Repeal and Replace. Tactics overwhelm policy every time. He needs a bill crafted to get past the Senate, and have no doubt here, the Senate after this election is shaky. Nevada is a blue state now and we have a GOP senator up from there 2018. He can’t vote right wing. So of 52 you lose him for a hard core right wing bill. And Susan Collins, too. And Murkowski. And Flake, from a now wobbly Arizona that elected him with just 46% in 2012. He ain’t voting hard core right wing either.
So look at the Senate and craft your bill. Or hell, you can even craft your bill and look at the Senate.
As for putting forth a hardcore right wing bill, there should properly be quid pro quo. If the chambers decide to waste the time to do that, you have to agree to accept its failure and participate in crafting a bill that can pass. Because tactics are everything and it will take tactical genius to get through the Senate.
“Repeal it all. People managed to get medical care and arrange insurance before the government got involved.”
So do you have any idea what people are going to do between repealing O-Care and getting that insurance?
Is there any plan for people getting insurance without the few companies left charging them extortion prices after they all colluded to write O-Care?
The problem is that our side only gives a crap about repealing O-Care, but has not the foggiest idea about the chaos afterwards.
What is the plan to move people out of this system, and back into the “free market” without them getting gouged and fleeced by sky-high premiums?
>Once the GOP admits that government has a central role in the health insurance market, they have lost.
You mean. “As the GOP admits it believes govt has a central role...”. They’ve done nothing, while they have had the ability to do so, to do ANYTHING pro-Constitution.
I’m not talking the 6-lip-service bills prior, else, they would have dusted one off and re-submitted this time.
They pulled out a bill that in *NO WAY* could have been put together in 6-mo time (this, IMO, was the ‘at the ready’ Romneycare bill from way back when).
Funny how even after 40yrs. of being ‘hood-winked’, back-stabbed and flat out lied to, there are those here that are still ‘amazed’ and flabbergasted. Plantation living isn’t just for the DEMs...