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I am fine with Trump giving the HFC some grief. The polls about the policy meant nothing - people had little insight into the legislation. All they knew was that the left and many on the right labeled it as the worst legislation ever developed. The problem involved the three phase approach to tackling the issue which seemed well beyond the capacity of the HFC to grasp. They wanted such measures (ex. selling insurance across state lines) right now and would not accept anything less. POTUS knows the HFC/Never Trumpers are not the folks you want in the fox hole.

POTUS knows the HFC/Never Trumpers are not the folks you want in the fox hole.

So true. POTUS learned who will go AWOL when the bullets fly for real. For example the infrastructure bill will make road kill of the fiscal hawks. This was a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was once. The FC has marginalized conservatives tremendously with their betrayal. Sad.

The polls about the policy meant nothing - people had little insight into the legislation.

Then that points to a serious lack of work on the part of the people who put this thing together and tried to push it through Congress, right?

The problem involved the three phase approach to tackling the issue which seemed well beyond the capacity of the HFC to grasp.

I can assure you that they grasped it all too well. Phase 2 didn't need the AHCA; the HHS Secretary can start implementing a lot of changes right now. Phase 3 was a pipe-dream because everyone in the HFC knew that if insurance premiums escalated by 15%-20% in 2018 then there wouldn't be even a simple GOP majority -- let alone a 60-vote margin in the Senate -- to pass Phase 3.

POTUS knows the HFC/Never Trumpers are not the folks you want in the fox hole.

Those guys all represent districts that were very much behind Trump in 2016. He took them for granted and threw them under the bus just so he could back a weak, ineffective bill that was aimed at protecting a bunch of moderate Republicans in districts that Hillary Clinton won.