The GOP owns nothing other than reminding the administration that they have to follow the original law, which required the risk corridors to be revenue/budget neutral.
What frosts my gourd is that the wimps in the GOP would allow HHS/Obama to run amuck and raid taxpayer funds to prop up the insurance companies in the first place. Further, if the GOP allows the “owners” of Obamacare, the Democrats, to blame them for this, then shame on them. The way the GOP operates, I’ll just go ahead and say it ... shame on them for not standing up & making the case, because if they would, it’s a winner.
“... if the GOP allows the ‘owners’ of Obamacare, the Democrats, to blame them for this, then shame on them.”
It is a matter of perception. The DNC always has and always will blame the ‘G’ OP for every change in the weather.
Your point is arguably valid but now the ‘G’ OP is leading the charge for a strict budget mandate while the DNC keeps pushing for more spending. So far as the DNC is concerned, the last spending bill matters most — who cares more is who spends more tax money.
The reason Obama-care is unpopular is founded on our traditon of successful earthshaking economic history — free enterprise. When we get lost in the weeds of budgeting, people want to spare no expense to stay healthy, and ‘a curse on’ whoever opposes that.
This will backfire and the GOP will feel compelled to offer bail-outs to Zero-care until this failed plan is ended, but they should remind everyone that it is a failing system.
Return to the philosophical debate.