[Monorprise]

“Many, perhaps nearly all by now, Republicans derive very comfortable indirect incomes from Obamacare and will lose those incomes if they vote against it or don’t replace it with something equally onerous.”

If they don’t let Obamacare get repealed they are not going to have a future income because nobody is going to believe they are anything more than hypocritical scam artist.

They already cross that bridge when they campaigned to repeal Obamacare, in 2010, 2012,2014, and 2016, to say nothing of when they actually voted to repeal Obamcare in 2015.

[arthurus]

They voted for repeal when it was safe to vote for repeal because it would not get through the Senate and if it did it would have been vetoed. They are not punished by their benefactors for voting uselessly.

[arthurus]

When Trump repeated the "repeal andreplace wording Ik knew that it would never go away and would become Single Payer soon enough. That is what Corporate America wants. That is what the Chamber of Commerce wants. That is what we will get from Congress. This is the one issue on which I suspect Trumps' being a successful businessman serves the country wrong. Corporations got suckered by FDR into offering Health Insurance as hiring incentives when they were not allowed to offer higher wages to attract talent. Now it is a huge expense and they are stuck with it. Going to Single Payer would get that off their necks even as it puts a huge and permanent lead weight on the economy and pauperizes the middle class.