The AHCA pretty much kept Obamacare in place. that’s what the freedom caucus voted against.
And what about the Tuesday caucus, or whatever they were called. The moderates had more votes against AHCA then the Freedom Caucus.
Perhaps...but the failure of the Freedom Caucus to unite behind Mo Brook’s simple “Repeal Only” bill shows me that the “brave talk” of the Freedom Caucus is JUST talk.
Isn’t it odd that, after a month of “talk”, no one yet knows what the Freedom Caucus would “accept” in a bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare? Why? Wouldn’t you think Mo Brook’s bill would have their support and create a baseline for further discussion? Why didn’t that happen?
Wouldn’t you think that a desire to negotiate “in good faith” would oblige the Freedom Caucus to communicate a definite position around which the Freedom Caucus would unite? When will that list of essential elements be published? [Crickets chirp...]
I conclude the Freedom Caucus is not negotiating in “good faith”. I could be wrong, but I think that the members of the Freedom Caucus are making too much money “opposing” “ObamaCare to actually, you know, lift a finger to END it....