Let’s also be politically real, shall we? “Why not repeal?” — also, “why not World Peace?”
There is lots of concern about those that have obtained coverage under Obamacare that they will lose that. That will be a potent weapon for Democrats to use, and there is significant fear amongst establishment Republicans on that issue.
That’s political reality. So if not this current bill, they still have to make it politically palatable.
Nonsense.
Nobody cared that people lost their healthcare with Ocare.
But now we must care? Shove it!
A lot of people are going to lose their coverage under this bill, too. So passing this turkey will be provide the Democrats with just as potent a weapon.
One more time.
Whatever you think you DEMAND, number one criteria is it has to pass a narrow majority in the Senate — because make NO MISTAKE about this —— The very worst thing that can happen is
“The Republicans couldn’t even pass a bill.”
What about the people who lost their plans when Obamacare took effect. Where the Hell are their sob stories?
Exactly. I’d rather have a much more conservative bill but where are the votes for that? We can complain about certain senators all we want but they aren’t going to vote for a flat out repeal. And the pubic has proven over and over and over and over again that they aren’t as “conservative” as we’d like them to be. So a flat out repeal isn’t going to fly with the public, especially since Obamacare as caused rates to go through the ceiling. We have to take this in steps. Whatever is proposed has to be able to pass. Any conservative who proposes something more radical should explain how it will get the votes necessary to pass it, and simply making angry accusations against Collins and Murkowski doesn’t count as a plan to get it passed.